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Algerian cities, towns and villages
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Airforce Technology
April 12, 2018
An Algerian military transport aircraft has crashed near its capital city Algiers killing 257 people on-board, officials from the country's defence ministry said. Algerian Civil Protection Agency chief spokesman Mohammed Achour was reported by Evening Standard as saying that the aircraft met with theÃâà...
The Straits Times
April 12, 2018
BOUFARIK (Algeria) • Algeria suffered its deadliest air catastrophe yesterday when a military plane crashed near the capital, killing 257 people on board, ... a military plane carrying army personnel and family members crashed between Tamanrasset in southern Algeria and the eastern city of Constantine.
The Sun
April 12, 2018
The military aircraft crashed in a fireball just after takeoff from an airport at Boufarik — less than 20 miles from the capital Algiers. It had been transporting dozens ... a desperate rescue mission. It had been heading to the city of Bechar in in south-western Algeria, according to Algerie Presse service agency.
The Nation
April 12, 2018
An Algerian military plane crashed and caught fire on Wednesday killing 257 people, mostly army personnel and members of their families, officials said. ... a military plane carrying army personnel and family members crashed between Tamanrasset in southern Algeria and the eastern city of Constantine.
Los Angeles Times
April 12, 2018
A military transport plane slammed into a field near Algiers, the Algerian capital, on April 11, 2018, killing at least 257 people in the North African nation's ... town of Tindouf, the site of refugee camps for people fleeing the decades-long conflict in the Western Sahara, before traveling on to the city of Bechar,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 11, 2018
"In this painful ordeal, the government members offer their deepest condolences to the families of the victims," a cabinet statement said. Algerie24, a local news website, said the plane was heading to the western Algerian city of Bechar. Images posted on an Algerian website showed thick smoke billowingÃâà...
CNN
April 11, 2018
The plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Boufarik air base, between Algiers and the city of Blida. Ten of those killed ... The plane was supposed to go from Boufarik to Tindouf, and then on to Bashar, which are both towns on the Algerian-Morocco border, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
New York Times
April 9, 2018
In Mostaganem, as in other towns and villages throughout Algeria, there are no movie theaters, no swimming pools, no dance floors and no restaurants. Lovers may not kiss or hold hands in public. So Mostaganem's beautiful, still-wild coastline is a point of departure. More than 110 small craft set out fromÃâà...
ZAWYA
March 25, 2018
A view of a liquefied petroleum gas refinery in Arzew near the western city of Oran July 30, 2007. ... MILAN: Maire Tecnimont hopes to pick up business from Sonatrach as the Algerian state-owned energy company's new management starts investing again, the head of the Italian engineer told Reuters.
Xinhua
March 25, 2018
The condemnation was made by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in a condolence message to his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. "I feel deeply indignant when I heard the terrorist hostage-taking attack in France's southwestern city of Trebes, causing casualties to the civilians and theÃâà...
Xinhua
March 25, 2018
ALGIERS, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Several official institutions in Algeria went dark for one hour as a symbolic gesture to mark the global event of Earth Hour and highlight concerns over climate change. In the capital city of Algiers, members of SIDER, an association affiliated to World Wide Fund for NatureÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
March 21, 2018
By Tareq Al-Bakri ALGIERS, March 21 (KUNA) -- Head of Biskra province, Algeria Ahmed Kerroun, as well as head of its municipality Ezz Al-Dein ... They gave remarks to KUNA on the sideline of the 7th literary union forum on children literature, organized by Union of Algerian Writers-Biskra last night, andÃâà...
Goal.com
March 21, 2018
Riyad Mahrez could miss Algeria's friendly game with Tanzania at the Stade Mustapha Tchaker on Thursday evening. The winger was believed to have suffered the injury in Leicester City's 2-1 loss to Chelsea in an FA Cup quarterfinal tie. The Desert Warriors manager Rabah Madjer confirmed that theÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 21, 2018
Indiscriminately arrested in several cities around the country, migrants are said to be sent to squalid refugee camps before subsequently being sent to deserts in the country's borders with ... On March 13, sub-Saharan migrants (but mostly Malians) stoned Algeria's embassy in Bamako, Mali's capital city.
Metro
March 21, 2018
Leicester City winger Riyad Mahrez is currently struggling with an injury, according to Algeria boss Rabah Madjer. Mahrez has linked up with his national side ahead of their upcoming friendlies against Tanzania and Iran. But the 27-year-old missed Monday's training session and is now considered as aÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 19, 2018
Rabat – Speaking to the press on the sidelines of the ongoing Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla, President of the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab Region Ynja Khattat has urged Algeria to cooperate in settling the Western Sahara conflict. Khattat discussed the recent meeting between the Moroccan delegation andÃâà...
africanews
March 18, 2018
Kenya's 18-year-old running phenomenon Celliphine Chespol won the African Cross Country Championship senior women's title in the Algerian city of Chlef despite thinking she had finished with a lap still to go and then falling on the final circuit. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. On a day whenÃâà...
Independent Newspapers Limited
March 16, 2018
Smart Cities Global Technology & Investment Summit 2018 has been announced to take place in Algiers, Algeria, on June 27-28, gathering international Government and Industry leaders to assess global and regional Smart City growth strategies with a special focus on Africa and Emerging Markets.
BusinessGhana
March 16, 2018
Smart Cities Global Technology & Investment Summit 2018 (www.SmartCityAlgiers.com) has been announced to take place in Algiers, Algeria, on June 27-28, gathering international Government and Industry leaders to assess global and regional Smart City growth strategies with a special focus onÃâà...
Digital Journal
March 15, 2018
Mar. 15, 2018 / PRZen / CONSTANTINE, Algeria -- Smart Cities Global Technology & Investment Summit 2018 ( http://www.smartcityalgiers.com/ ) has been announced to take place in Algiers, hosted by Smart City Algiers, on June 27-28, to assess global Smart City growth strategies and partnership opportunities with aÃâà...
CNBCAfrica.com
March 15, 2018
Smart Cities Global Technology & Investment Summit 2018 (www.SmartCityAlgiers.com) has been announced to take place in Algiers, Algeria, on June 27-28, gathering international Government and Industry leaders to assess global and regional Smart City growth strategies with a special focus on AfricaÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 15, 2018
Five migrants who had reached Mali told Human Rights Watch in separate phone interviews that police in the north-central Algerian city of Ghardaia rounded ... The police escorted them on buses to Bordj Badji Mokhtar, the last town before the Mali border, handing them to gendarmes, who trucked to theÃâà...
The Peninsula Qatar
March 14, 2018
“We are concentrating more in the North African market, particularly in Algeria, where we are having one of the biggest real estate projects in the capital city of Algiers. It's a mixed used project consisting of 11 buildings, including a hotel (Marriot), office buildings a mall and shopping centres, which areÃâà...
Worldcrunch
March 14, 2018
TAMANRASSET — The rugged Hoggar mountains, stretching over an expanse of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria, are home to a large ethnic Tuareg population that has ... Some chiefs are set to hold a protest for Tuareg rights on March 17th at the provincial headquarters in the city of Tamanrasset.
Human Rights Watch
March 13, 2018
Five migrants who had reached Mali told Human Rights Watch in separate phone interviews that police in the north-central Algerian city of Ghardaia rounded ... The police escorted them on buses to Bordj Badji Mokhtar, the last town before the Mali border, handing them to gendarmes, who trucked to theÃâà...
Gospel Herald
March 13, 2018
In the latest of a rash of persecution incidents in Algeria, a judge on Thursday (March 8) sentenced a pastor to a fine and a suspended prison sentence ... That same third week of December, two churches in Kabylie Region's Bejaia Province received a visit from officials from the municipality, the ministry ofÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 13, 2018
With American rock bands looking to forward-thinking EDM and elsewhere for genre rejuvenation, African electric guitars and traditional instruments alike are once again yawping, screaming and blurting with new intensity after something of a genre hiatus. Over there, the romantic scenario of picking upÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 13, 2018
The Algerian Ministry of Health registered about 1263 cases of this virus in the two cities. In statements to the Algeria Press Service (APS), the director of Prevention Department in the Algerian Ministry of Health, Jamal Fourary, attributed the causes of the disease outbreak in the southern governorates to theÃâà...
Christian News Network
March 13, 2018
(Morning Star News) — In the latest of a rash of persecution incidents in Algeria, a judge on Thursday (March 8) sentenced a pastor to a fine and a ... That same third week of December, two churches in Kabylie Region's Bejaia Province received a visit from officials from the municipality, the ministry ofÃâà...
The Leader Newspaper Online
March 11, 2018
Bienvenida also recently met up with Xelo Angulo Luna, the president of “Fons per la Solidaritat”, an association formed by town councils and associations of all the political formations of the Valencian Community that works toward the obtaining the repatriation to Spain of Saharawi women. She explainedÃâà...
Ahram Online
March 9, 2018
Leicester City playmaker Riyad Mahrez regrets the way he handled a failed move to Premier League leaders Manchester City during the January transfer window, but ... Mahrez missed two matches and six training sessions after Leicester rejected City's bid to sign the Algeria international on deadline day.
Kansas City Star
March 8, 2018
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has called on Arab nations to work together to fight illegal migration and the networks that feed them. In a message read to a meeting in Algiers of Arab interior ministers, Abdelaziz Bouteflika said that "we cannot close our eyes" to criminal networks exploitingÃâà...
Ahval
March 4, 2018
Turkey's economic partnerships with Algeria are set for a boost that could see trade between the countries treble to Turkish President Recep Tayyip ... The leaks cited by Ali say is on the verge of an agreement that will make Jordan's Red Sea port city of Aqaba into a “hub for Turkish exports to Africa,” aÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
February 27, 2018
Turkey and Algeria have signed a number of agreements on the sidelines of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's two-day visit to the Maghreb country, with the Turkish leader pushing for higher trade goals. ... The forum came one day after Erdoğan met with Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia in the city.
Human Rights Watch
February 26, 2018
(Tunis) – Algerian authorities have rounded up hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans since January 2018, including women and children, expelling many of them to Niger, ... In the previous waves, they took some of the migrants by trucks to Guezzam, a town near the border, then over the border into Niger.
Haaretz
February 25, 2018
Bar-Yechoua was 4 years old when the Vichy regime set up headquarters in Algeria. Like other Jewish children in the country, he and his eight siblings were told they could no longer attend school. His father, who was chief rabbi of Batna (Algeria's fifth largest city), lost his job and the family was suddenlyÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
February 20, 2018
French film star Gerard Depardieu said he will move to Algeria, just like former football player Eric Cantona. Depardieu explained that Eric Cantona owns a residence in the city of Oran and he will follow his steps and reside in Algeria, without further specifying his future city of residence. This came in theÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
February 7, 2018
Algeria's Chief of Staff and Deputy Defence Minister, Ahmed Gaid Salah, is on a three day visit to the country's 6th Military Region in Tamanrasset to ensure everything is in order following rumours Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is in the region. Salah supervised yesterday's military exercises in theÃâà...
Jewish Chronicle
February 5, 2018
Algeria, a French colony during the Second World War, became part of Vichy France and was later occupied by Nazi Germany. It fell to the British-American invasion of North Africa in November 1942. French-Jewish resistance fighters played a crucial part in the invasion when they staged a coup in the cityÃâà...
Zambia Daily Mail
December 31, 1999
So, four days after my stay in Algiers, I decided to visit the Maqam Echahid in the company of Nkana Football Club vice-president Patrick Njovu. ... symbol of new and old Algeria in that there is the modern part of the city that is built on level ground on the seashore while the ancient side of the town is on theÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
December 31, 1999
"At this point, the automotive industry only consists of importing parts to be assembled here," Algerian Trade Minister Mohamed Benmeradi said. "The integration rate is only at 5%," he added, referring to the proportion of the locally manufactured parts used by foreign carmakers in Algerian assembly plants.
ChristianToday
December 31, 1999
Two more churches have been closed down by local authorities in Algeria's north-western city of Oran amid growing pressure on Christians in the north African country, according to World Watch Monitor (WWM). The two churches – L'Oratoire [The Oratory] in Oran's city centre, and a village church inÃâà...
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