Tag Archives: El Watan
November 15, 2011 by benim
Algiers – Algerian authorities have arrested nine people, including eight Air Algerie stewards, as part of an operation against an international drug trafficking ring, newspapers reported Tuesday. The El-Watan daily said the police investigation was launched when a steward from … read more »
September 15, 2011 by benim
Algiers – A mob of around 100 youths tried to set fire to two private dailies’ printing plant in Algiers, the papers’ managers said on Thursday. The mob, armed with molotov cocktails, tried to storm the printing plants of the … read more »
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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said Sunday it had carried out a twin suicide attack on an Algerian military academy that killed 18 people including officers in training from Syria and Tunisia. A statement emailed to AFP in Morocco said … read more »
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Algiers – Eighteen people were killed and dozens wounded late Friday in a suicide bombing at the Cherchell military academy west of Algiers, a hospital source said. Eight of those wounded in the attack, the first against the academy since … read more »
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A suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in the Algerian city of Tizi Ouzou early on Sunday, injuring 29 people, the official APS news agency reported. The attacker tried to drive a Toyota Hilux pick-up truck packed with explosives into … read more »
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Algiers – Two Algerian soldiers have been killed and at least eight others injured in a bomb attack on their convoy, press reports said on Monday. The attack with a remote-controlled improvised explosive device happened on Sunday in Tihammamet, 370km … read more »
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Algiers – At least two people were killed and 15 wounded in a suicide bomb attack by Islamist extremists in Algeria on Saturday, the El Watan newspaper reported on its website. One of the attackers blew himself up in a … read more »
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Accused of disobeying a law regulating worship, all seven Protestant churches in Algeria’s eastern Bejaia region were ordered shut by local authorities, a church leader said Wednesday. “We received notification ordering us to close the seven churches throughout the region,” … read more »
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An attack on a military barracks in northeast Algeria claimed the lives of seven soldiers and three “terrorists” overnight, the El-Watan daily reported online on Friday. An eighth soldier was missing after the machine gun attack on military sleeping quarters … read more »
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February 28, 2011 by benim
Algiers – An Algerian man has died after setting himself alight at the weekend in a protest in front of a government office, the El Watan daily newspaper reported on Monday. The 25-year-old, identified as L Abderrazak, set himself alight … read more »
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Tagged Algeria, Algiers, El Watan, Indepth Africa Magazine, newspaper, Self-immolation, Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
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February 19, 2011 by benim
Pro-democracy protesters in Algeria vowed to hold a march Saturday even though thousands of police blocked their path a week ago. The new march comes amid weeks of strikes and scattered protests in the North African country, which has promised … read more »
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