Sana’a (dpa) – A French-Algerian journalist was found dead in his hotel room in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, police sources said Monday. He was strangled, allegedly by another journalist, the sources said. His body was found by a hotel worker, who informed police. The sources claimed the murder followed a financial dispute between the two [...]
Istanbul/Paris (dpa) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that France had committed genocide during its rule of Algeria, deepening a rift with Paris after the French lower house of parliament approved a bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide. “France massacred 15 per cent of the population in Algeria starting in 1945. [...]
CAIRO: Arab writer Boualem Sansal has won the Frankfurt Book Fair Peace Prize, an award granted annually for work in democracy building, for his writing about his homeland, Algeria. Sansal started writing novels at 50, after retiring from a high-ranking position in the Algerian government. Since 2006, his books have been banned in Algeria for [...]
Retired Algerian soccer striker Mustapha Rabah Madjer, who played in two World Cups and starred on the Portuguese club team FC Porto in the 1980s, is to become a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with young people and promotion of sports values. UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General Irina [...]
CAIRO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has criticized Algeria’s new media bill, saying the new legislation does not liberate the media. ANHRI released a statement on Monday calling the new media bill endorsed by the Algerian Ministers Council a step forward in terms of abolishing the imprisonment penalty for journalists in publication [...]
At least 8 people have been killed in floods in various Algerian states during the last 24 hours, ages ranging between 3- and 17-years-old, a new report by the civil defense forces said. The floods have displaced around 127 families who are being moved to an emergency camp in the town of Bied. Tens of [...]
CAIRO: Some 500 captive houbara bustards have been released into the wild in Algeria by the Abu Dhabi-based National Avian Research Center (NARC). The birds had been raised by the center and were released into the wild in the North African country last week. NARC’s director, Nigel Collar, said at the releasing ceremony that Algeria [...]
According to sources, sporadic fighting along the Algerian-Libyan border continued into Monday. On Sunday, heavy fighting between Libyan rebels now in charge of the country and loyalists to former leader Muammar Gaddafi were seen near the border town of Ghademes. One source told Bikyamasr.com that the fighting has subsided somewhat, with rebels pushing back Gaddafi [...]
Algerian citizens and investors are reacting positively to this month’s SMS via Gmail move that has increased the ability for communications to run more smoothly, said ministry of communications spokesperson Ibrahim Said. Algeria and Google launched the SMS partnership with Wataniya Telecom Algeria, also known as Nedjma, earlier this month that enables Gmail accounts to [...]
The Algerian ministry of telecom said on Wednesday it had not yet received a valuation for Egypt’s Orascom Telecom unit in the country. The Djezzy unit, OT’s largest source of revenue, continues to see delays over a deal for the Algerian government to purchase the telecom unit after OT disputed and refused to pay back [...]
Algeria will have its first private television channels in 2012, Communication Minister Nacer Mehal was quoted as saying Monday by the el-Khabar newspaper. “I think we’ll be seeing the first private channels in 2012,” he told the Arabic-language daily. He said he would look to receive the advice of Rachid Arab — an Algerian-born member [...]
Algeria officially opened bidding for operators on Thursday for the country’s first third generation (3G) mobile license after months of wrangling. The winner will be announced in late October and the license will be commercially operational for the first quarter of next year, the state telecom regulator ARPT said in a statement. According to recent [...]
Algeria continues to struggle with its Christian minority, refusing to recognize some 25 churches in the country, the Protestant Church of Algeria (EPA) said in a press statement. The religious group said that the government only recently granted it recognition, but appears to be moving slowly in recognizing a number of the churches in the [...]
CAIRO: Algeria’s government has refused ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from entering the country and going into exile, reports said. News agencies reported Gaddafi had called Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Boutefleka but did not get through. It comes after Algiers is coming under more fire by the international community for taking in members of the Gaddafi [...]
Algeria’s ministry of telecommunications has confirmed the long-awaited 3G tender for the country is to be made available sometime in September. Speaking to reporters at a press conference in Algiers, Telecom Minister Moussa Benhamadi said that the government plans to auction the new 3G spectrum next month. The move puts years of waiting into action [...]
Morocco and Algeria signed a commercial contract on the delivery of Algerian natural gas to the power plants of Ain Béni Mathar and Tahaddart. Under this contract, 640 millions of cubic meters of gas will be delivered on an annual basis over 10 years. The gas will flow through the gazoduc Pedro Duran Farell (GPDF) [...]
Faced with crumbling regimes across the Arab world, Algeria has dramatically boosted its grain imports to contain social unrest during Ramadan, when food prices traditionally shoot up. The strategy, analysts said, is designed to guard against a popular revolt like that in neighboring Tunisia, where a frustrated public — inspired by one man’s dramatic protest [...]
The Algerian Telecom operator Djezzy GSM announced a meeting with the general director of Orascom Telecom Algeria, the Algerian Arabic daily ElKhabar reported Tuesday. Tamer Al-Mahdi, the general director of Orascom telecom Algeria met Djezzy officials to discuss western provinces. The meeting was held in a hotel in the city of Oran and focused on [...]
Some Algerians’ applications for debit cards have come along with three years of waiting, the Algerian Arabic Daily ElKhabar reported Sunday. Applicants from the interior city of Bechar, which is close to the Moroccan border, have waited for any word from the Central Directorate of Algeria, only to go without any acceptance or decline of [...]
The director of communications at Algeria Telecom announced Saturday that Algerians should expect major internet disruptions in the coming days, the Algerian Arabic daily AlKhabar reported Sunday. Abdel Hakim Mezyani attributed the disturbances to maintenance operations on cables that link the network to Marseilles, France and Alexandria, Egypt. Mezyani went onto say that users should [...]
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