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Terrorists and hostages killed in final assault end to Algeria kidnap crisis

19/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Algeria’s four-day hostage stand-off came to a bloody end today when the country’s special forces stormed the remote desert gas plant and killed 11 militants, but not before they in turn executed...

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Expert: The bankruptcy of security in Algeria is due to its refusal to cooperate with its neighbours

19/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Abdelmamek Alaoui is president of the Moroccan Association of intelligence, he commented on the recent developments taking place in the south-eastern Algeria, marked by taking foreign hostages and...

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Algeria's gas field attackers from Libya: minister

18/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday that the militants who assaulted a gas- field in southern Illizi province were from Libya....

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Mohamed Said Belaid: "dead and wounded" in the attack by the Algerian army

17/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Algerian Minister of Communication, Mohamed Said Belaid, confirmed on Thursday evening that "there are dead and wounded" to lament after the attack by the Algerian army against a heavily armed group...

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Hostage Crisis in Algeria

17/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

https://www.marocafrik.com/english/video/ Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Hostage-Crisis-...

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Casablanca: Dismantling of an Algerian passport forgery network

17/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

The network was headed by an Algerian citizen and his concubine, and other Algerian nationals acting as intermediaries for clients. The police stationed at the Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca arrested 6 Algerian nationals who were legally residing in Morocco, but were preparing to fly to...

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ANI: The Algerian army assault results in the death of hostages and their captors on the BP site

17/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Algerian helicopters bombed the gas complex, said one of the kidnappers, quoted by the Mauritanian news agency ANI. The source cited by ANI said that "two Japanese were wounded," without giving further details.ANI has established regular contacts with the group linked to Al Qaeda....

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Dozens held after Islamists attack Algerian gas field

16/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Islamist militants attacked a gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, claiming to have kidnapped up to 41 foreigners including seven Americans in a dawn raid in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali, according to regional media reports.The raiders were also reported to have killed three...

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Algeria and the Mali backwater: Now What?

15/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Since the beginning of this case in Mali, Algeria's position has been neither clear nor consistent nor the result of a high-level strategic thinking writes the Algerian daily Le Matin. Algiers seems to have been overtaken by events in nearby Mali, it adds. Abdelkader Messahel the Minister in...

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Algerian artist Adel Abdessmed exhibits in London

08/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

Algerian Abdessemed The artist exhibit from February 22 to March 30 next at the David Zwirner Gallery in London where he will present his recent works dedicated to the Vietnam War. Conducted in 2012 under the theme "Cry", the works of Abdessemed are inspired by a famous photo of a Vietnamese...

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UGCAA: The Algerian consumes only 1 gram of fish per year

08/01/2013 | MarocAfrik

The UGCAA is the General Union of Algerian traders and craftsmen. It organised a conference in Algiers on the state of fisheries and fisheries sectors in Algeria.Hosted by the President of the Fisheries Committee, member of the UGCAA, Hocine Bellout, it announced the shocking figure. The...

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Algeria's FLN party looses its senate majority

31/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

The FLN,won 17 out of the 48 seats that were submitted to a vote. It now has a total of 39 seats, down from its previous 56 in the 144-seat upper house.It has a majority in the lower house of...

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Algerian Tourism development plans to be adopted

30/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

A bill for seven management plans for the expansion of tourist areas (ZET) will shortly be submitted to the Government for adoption, said Secretary of State for Tourism, Haj Amin Mohamed Said....

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The Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi exhibits in California

29/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi presents his collection "The invisible masters", which won the 2011 British Jameel Prize prize as part of an exhibition held at Stanford University in California...

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Algeria will increase its LNG production capacity

28/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

Algeria from 2014 Algeria will have 60 million m3 liquefied natural gas (LNG) capacity against 44 million m3 now, thanks to the commissioning of two new trains at Skikda and Arzew, APS reported....

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Libyan “Al-Qaeda member” killed by Algerian army

27/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

Algerian troops killed a Libyan citizen in an anti-terrorist operation in the Wilaya of Khenchela in the country’s east, the Algerian newspaper El Khabar reported yesterday....

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Algeria's exisiting oil and gas deposits are ageing and in decline

27/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

Large deposits of oil and gas in Algeria are in sharp decline, according to some energy experts and official sources. An article in El Watan asks whether more efficient investment policy and...

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Algeria becomes one of the creditor countries in 2012

27/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

The year 2012 was a good year economically for Algeria: exchange reserves nearing $200 billion, trade surplus of more than $26 billion, an external public debt less than $410 million but the great...

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Algeria, a country so rich its people so poor!

23/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

Algeria is certainly a very rich country, an economic powerhouse .. a truth that leaders are trying to hide from Algerians, but events such as the recent visit to Hollande in Algeria, shows this...

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President Hollande acknowledges the suffering of Algeria under French colonial rule

20/12/2012 | MarocAfrik

The French presidentdenounced the colonial system s "profoundly unjust and brutal" introduced in Algeria during 132 years by France on the second day of his state visit to the former colony but he...

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