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A twin suicide attack that killed at least 21 people in northern Niger was planned by Algerian Islamist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Mauritanian news website Al-Akhbar reported on Friday. "It was Belmokhtar who directly supervised the attacks" that hit an army barracks in the northern town of Agadez and a French uranium mine near Arlit on Thursday, the spokesperson of Belmokhtar's group
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Algiers - The head of Algeria's main Islamist political party has called for the country's ailing president to appear on television to dispel rumours over his health after a three week absence. Abderrazzak Mukri, the leader of the Movement of Society for Peace, warned that if the president did not soon appear, it would require invoking constitutional powers allowing his
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Oran - An Algerian singer accused of poking fun at the police in one of his songs on Thursday was given a suspended six-month sentence and fined around €1 000, an AFP correspondent at the court reported. A court in the western city of Oran issued the verdict against Cheb Faisal, 29, who was arrested last month after a complaint
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Algiers - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is "responding well" after he suffered a stroke and there was no irreversible damage, a doctor told the national news agency APS on Sunday. The president, 76, "did not suffer irreversible damage", said Rachid Bougherbal, director of Algeria's National Sports Medicine Centre, explaining that "no sensory function was impaired". Bouteflika, who has been in
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The baby Pharaohs will play their final match of African Youth Championship against Ghana on Saturday at the Ahmed Zabana Stadium in Oran. Both Coaches Rabie Yassin of Egypt and Sellas Tetteh of Ghana have assured their fans that they are ready for the clash. Tetteh said: "I will play this match only to win , I will not lose
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Algeria's foreign minister acknowledged that security forces made mistakes in a hostage crisis at a Saharan gas plant in which many foreign workers were killed by Algerian military strikes. Mourad Medelci, in an Associated Press interview, also conceded that Algeria will need international help to better fight terrorism. Algeria's decision to refuse foreign offers of aid in handling the crisis,
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Algiers - The arms used by militants who seized an Algerian gas plant in a deadly hostage-taking drama came from Libyan rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi in an uprising, an Algerian daily reported on Wednesday. "The first interrogations of the three terrorist captured by security services have revealed that rebels in Zintan [southwest Libya] were behind the sale of the
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Five foreigners were still missing on Tuesday in the aftermath of the hostage crisis at Algeria's remote In Amenas gas plant. The Islamist group that staged the attack has threatened to attack France in the light of the offensive in Mali. Algerian authorities are still searching for five foreigners missing since last week's attack, a source told the AFP news
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The Mulathameen Brigade that claimed the mass hostage-taking in Algeria threatened to carry out more attacks unless Western powers ended what it called, an assault on Muslims in neighbouring Mali, according to the SITE monitoring service. In a statement on Monday, the al-Qaeda linked group also said the hostage-takers had offered negotiations on freeing the captives seized at a gas
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“You are Algerians and Muslims, you have nothing to fear. We’re looking for Christians, who kill our brothers in Mali and Afghanistan,” the Islamists shouted to their Algerian hostages, as chilling accounts emerged of the siege. The gunmen, numbering more than 30 and belonging the “Signatories in Blood” group of former Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, launched
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Algiers — The outcome of an Algerian military operation to free hostages held at the In Amenas gas complex remained unclear on Friday (January 18th), amid conflicting reports from local authorities and foreign governments. Algerian Special Forces began a rescue mission Thursday that freed nearly 650 hostages, including dozens of foreigners, according to APS. Eighteen terrorists were reportedly killed in
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Two Norwegians have been found alive but six others remain unaccounted for in the hostage crisis at a gas field in Algeria, Norway's Statoil said on Saturday. "The situation remains confused and serious," Helge Lund, the managing director at Statoil, told a press briefing. Lund declined to say under what conditions the two Norwegians were released. One of them was
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Algiers - Algeria said several hostages were killed on Thursday when its forces stormed a remote desert gas plant occupied by Islamist militants in retaliation for French intervention in Mali, and local sources said six foreigners were among the dead. Amid reports of many more casualties in one of the biggest international hostage crises in decades, Western leaders expressed anger
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Algiers - Algerian forces launched a military assault on Thursday at a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert, trying to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants who have ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats and an Algerian security official said. Yet information on the Algerian operation varied hugely and the conflicting reports that emerged from the remote
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Algerian authorities confirmed to Britain there was an "ongoing operation" on Thursday at the Algerian gas plant where Islamist gunmen were holding dozens of foreign hostages, the Foreign Office said. "The prime minister was updated on the latest situation by the Algerian prime minister in the last hour," a spokesperson said. "It remains an ongoing situation. The Algerian authorities have
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Armed militants with suspected links to Al-Qaeda have killed two people, wounded six others and abducted 41 foreigners in an attack on a gas field run by the oil giant BP in central Algeria. Algerian state media said one of those killed was a British national, but this has not been confirmed by the British Foreign Office. Two policemen and
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Algiers - The Algerian army has identified one of seven armed Islamists killed east of the capital earlier this month as a key financier of the local affiliate of al-Qaeda, the El Watan newspaper reported on Saturday. Izza Rezki, also known as Abou Djaffar, took up arms against the government in 1994, early in Algeria's devastating civil war, and was
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Algiers - A bomb intended to take out soldiers killed two youths from the same family in the restive Bouira region of central Algeria, newspapers said on Thursday. The two, aged 12 and 14, were on their way home from an olive grove when one of them trod on the explosive device which had been buried in the ground, some
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France's President François Hollande called France's colonial rule of Algeria "unjust and brutal", speaking to the Algerian parliament on Thursday. But he did not apologise for colonisation or repression during the independence war. "Over 132 years Algeria was subjected to a profoundly unjust and brutal system," Hollande told Algerian MPs to applause. "This system has a name: it is colonialism
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Algiers - Algerian opposition parties cried foul over the North African country's municipal elections on Thursday, citing the government's practice of mobilising security forces to vote for the ruling parties. Two hours after polls closed, Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia announced the turnout was at least 43%, with participation light in the capital, but heavier in the more rural provinces.
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Algiers - Algerian soldiers killed four armed Islamists during a raid in the Boumerdes region east of Algiers on Wednesday, the defence ministry said. The four Islamist militants, whose identities were not revealed, were killed near the town of Bordj Menaiel, said a statement carried by the official APS news agency. The army had already killed three suspected members of
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The bodies of the two passengers missing after the crash of an Algerian military plane in southern France have been found in the wreckage, investigators announced Saturday. The body of the pilot and three passengers were found in the crashed plane on Friday shortly after the plane crashed in a mountainous area in France's most thinly populated department, Lozère, but
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Algiers - An Algerian court on Tuesday acquitted rights activist Abdelkader Kherba of charges that he insulted an official during a protest against water cuts, his lawyer Amine Sidhoum said. The court in the south-western town of Ksar el-Boukari "acquitted Mr Kherba and he should be leaving prison later during the day", Sidhoum told AFP. "The case was without foundation
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Algiers - Security forces in Algeria have killed 10 militants presumed to be members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in separate operations, press reports on Saturday cited the defence ministry as saying. They said nine AQIM members including a chief named as Boubeker Zemmouri, 29, were killed by soldiers in a special operation at Jebel Djerrah in the Beni
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Algiers - Wildfires have devastated 20 000ha of Algerian land since June, the head of the forestry department said on Tuesday, blaming a heatwave that has also seen vast swathes of Spanish woodland burn. "At the moment, there are 115 fires burning. We are experiencing exceptionally hot conditions," Mohamed Seghir Noual told a news conference. "We have recorded 20 000haof
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