News: Algeria

We have started to collect the most important news related to Algeria in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Algeria: news

Algeria 'child traffickers' on trial

Monday, May 27th 2013, 17:13
related countries: France
related places: Algiers

Thirteen people go on trial in Algiers, accused of trafficking an unknown number of children to France for a sum of money.
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Algeria's Bouteflika 'improving'

Tuesday, May 21st 2013, 12:11
related countries: France
related places: Paris

Algeria's prime minister denies rumours that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, saying he is "improving every day" in Paris after suffering a mini-stroke in April.
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Algeria's Bouteflika has mini-stroke

Sunday, April 28th 2013, 13:50
related countries: France
related places: Paris

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is flown to hospital in Paris after suffering a mini-stroke but is "progressing well", doctors say.
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Gaddafi family 'not in Algeria'

Thursday, March 21st 2013, 18:09
related countries: Libya

Three of Col Muammar Gaddafi's children and his widow have left Algeria, its ambassador to Libya says.
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Islamist militant 'killed in Mali'

Sunday, March 3rd 2013, 11:39
related countries: Chad, Mali
related places: Mokhtar

Chad's army says their troops in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the Islamist militant behind January's siege at an Algerian gas plant.
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Algeria gas plant resumes production

Sunday, February 24th 2013, 20:09

The remote Algerian gas plant at the centre of a deadly hostage-taking last month partially resumes production.
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AUDIO: British hostage: I am out and safe

Friday, February 8th 2013, 13:33
related countries: United Kingdom

Tony Grisedale, one of the 22 British workers who survived the Algerian hostage crisis, told Radio 5 live what happened.
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VIDEO: Inside the In Amenas gas complex

Friday, February 1st 2013, 16:58

The BBC's Richard Galpin has been given access to the In Amenas gas facility in Algeria, where only a few weeks ago 48 foreign workers were taken hostage and killed by Islamic militants.
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Gas staff wired to suicide bomber

Thursday, January 31st 2013, 13:22

Eyewitness account of Algeria hostage crisis
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Cameron in Algerian security talks

Wednesday, January 30th 2013, 20:59

Prime Minister David Cameron says the international community should use "everything at its disposal" to fight terrorism, on a visit to Algeria.
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Ivory Coast 2-2 Algeria

Wednesday, January 30th 2013, 19:39

Group D winners Ivory Coast rescue a draw against Algeria to maintain their unbeaten record in the Nations Cup.
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Algeria pipeline attack kills two

Monday, January 28th 2013, 16:28

Two security guards are killed in an attack on a gas pipeline in northern Algeria by suspected militants.
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Japan receives nine Algeria dead

Friday, January 25th 2013, 17:32
related countries: Japan
related places: Tokyo

A plane carrying the bodies of nine Japanese victims of the Algerian hostage crisis, as well as seven survivors, lands in Tokyo.
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Japan confirms new hostage deaths

Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, 18:34
related countries: Japan

Japan confirms two more deaths in the Algerian hostage crisis, bringing the number of Japanese victims to nine.
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Wife 'so proud' of killed UK hostage

Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, 14:00
related countries: United Kingdom

The wife of a British man killed in the Algeria hostage crisis says his family "will always love him" and he will be "eternally missed".
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Canada examines Algerian claims

Tuesday, January 22nd 2013, 9:09
related countries: Canada

Canada says it is trying to verify whether two Canadians were among the Islamists involved in the deadly siege at a remote desert gas plant in Algeria.
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VIDEO: 'Belmokhtar' claims Algeria siege

Tuesday, January 22nd 2013, 4:55

A video emerges on the internet apparently showing militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar claiming responsibility for a deadly hostage crisis at Algeria's gas plant.
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British hostage 'was executed'

Monday, January 21st 2013, 23:03

British hostage Kenny Whiteside was "lined up" and shot dead in the Algerian siege, his brother says as efforts continue to locate three remaining Britons feared dead.
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Algeria says 37 foreigners killed

Monday, January 21st 2013, 21:46
related countries: Mali

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal says 37 foreigners of eight nationalities were killed during the siege at a remote desert gas plant.
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VIDEO: 'We were used as human shields'

Monday, January 21st 2013, 16:07

A Filipino gas worker speaks of his ordeal during the Algerian hostage crisis
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