Algeria-Watch: Articles

2008

• What Happened to Hassan Hattab and Amari Saïfi (alias Abderrezak El Para)? (AW, 20.12.08)
• “Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb bankrupt and captured by Bin Laden fellows” (EK, 18.12.08)
• Algerian-Bosnian former prisoner Ait Idir: “Guantanamo is hell on earth” (EK, 18.12.08)
• Opec cuts production to shore up falling oil prices (Independent, 18.12.08)
• Algeria’s Sonatrach to Raise Gas Exports by 25 Percent in 2009 (Bloomberg, 17.12.08)
• Algerian Air Forces to back up Malian Army against Al-Qaeda (EK, 17.12.08)
• 4608 foreigners expelled from Algeria in 2008 (EK, 17.12.08)
• Sahara detainees ask Bouteflika compensation (EK, 17.12.08)
• Britain to extradite a new bunch of Algerians (EK, 16.12.08)
• Algeria’s gas fields seek to set eco-example (IHT, 16.12.08)
• U.S. Is Set to Release 3 Detainees From Base (NYT, 15.12.08)
• If we’re careful, Al Qaeda may self-destruct (Boston, 13.12.08)
• U.S. Training in Africa Aims to Deter Extremists (NYT, 13.12.08)
• Dismay at Algeria constitution vote (BBC, 13.11.08)
• Algeria abolishes presidential term limits (AP, 12.11.08)
• Austrian hikers freed by Al-Qaeda in ‘good health’ (AFP, 02.11.08)
• Sahara hostage speaks of relief (BBC, 02.11.08)
• OPEC president urges members to cut, says Saudi key (Guardian, 02.11.08)
• Anger at Algerian president’s bid to run for third term (FT, 31.10.08)
• Algerian president announces constitutional change (AFP, 30.10.08)
• United Kingdom: Stop Deportations to Risk of Torture (HRW, 22.10.08)
• Algerian diplomat accused in 1987 Paris killing (AP, 16.10.08)
• Floods in Ghardaia (IFRC, 16.10.08)
• President Bouteflika partakes in 12th Francophone Summit in Canada (EK, 15.10.08)
• Energetic contracts to be sealed between Algeria and Italy’s Presidents (EK, 15.10.08)
• Algeria president warns over oil price fall (Reuters, 13.10.08)
• Algeria to renegotiate new energy projects (Reuters, 12.10.08)
• EU Aid Commissioner calls on Algerian authorities boosting cooperation to release the Austrian hostages (EK, 08.10.08)
• Trade consultancy bureau inaugurated at US Embassy in Algiers (EK, 08.10.08)
• US Financial crisis to have bad impact on Algerian economy in medium term (EK, 07.10.08)
• Protests follow fatal Algeria flood (Al Jazeera, 03.10.08)
• A suicide attack kills 4 soldiers in Boumerdès (EK, 30.09.08)
• 28 Algerian prisoners in Libya released says their lawyer Ben Braham (EK, 30.09.08)
• Official report: more than 81 thousand associations in Algeria (EK, 29.09.08)
• The bill of the amended Constitution already submitted to the Constitutional Council (EK, 28.09.08)
• Defence and security budget represents 15% of 2009 annual global budget (EK, 27.09.08)
• The Army and Police most employing sectors in Algeria (EK, 27.09.08)
• Algeria postpones its access to WTO till next 2009 (EK, 22.09.08)
• Algeria denies US allegations of persecuting Christians (EK, 22.09.08)
• Algeria to receive Harraga corpses from Spain, Italy and France (EK, 22.09.08)
• The Family of an Algerian prisoner in Spain calls on Justice Minister to intervene (EK, 22.09.08)
• Prime Minister, Ahmed Ouyahia says Bouteflika will easily succeed himself (EK, 20.09.08)
• Families of missing Harragas accuse authorities of not assisting them (EK, 20.09.08)
• France Telecom renounces penetrating Algerian telecoms market (EK, 18.09.08)
• Libya and Algeria agrees to exchange prisoners (EK, 18.09.08)
• Mauritania troops may be al Qaeda captives-officers (Reuters, 16.09.08)
• OPEC cuts 2008 oil demand growth on weak economy (Reuters, 16.09.08)
• Defence Ministry budget in 2009 reaches 6.25 b USD (EK, 14.09.08)
• The US Secretary of State today in Algiers (EK, 06.09.08)
• Rice meets with terror-fighting allies in Africa (IHT, 06.09.08)
• Rice talks Guantanamo captives in Algeria (UPI, 06.09.08)
• US: Rice Should Press Algeria on Fate of Returned Guantanamo Detainees (HRW, 05.09.08)
• New penal code criminalises illegal immigration in Algeria (Magharebia, 04.09.08)
• 10 Algerians to be extradited from Guantanamo Bay soon (EK, 04.09.08)
• The first day of Ramadan: Tough security measures in Algiers and its outskirts (EK, 02.09.08)
• Algeria 2009 budget raises spending by 7 percent (Reuters, 02.09.08)
• Washington considers Algeria as Afghanistan and Iraq (EK, 31.08.08)
• 50 billion USD Arab investments pending on bureaucratic hinders (EK, 31.08.08)
• Algeria tries to allay Ramadan food price fears (AFP, 30.08.08)
• Clearing Out Guantánamo (Counterpunch, 28.08.08)
• Twin suicide bombings kill 12 and injure 42 people in Bouira (EK, 21.08.08)
• 43 killed in attack on Algerian police school (AFP, 19.08.08)
• Abdelhak Layada: “Terrorist groups are able of toppling incumbent regime” (EK, 17.08.08)
• Algerian embassy in Ukraine does not react in favor of Algerian prisoner there (EK, 17.08.08)
• France probes suspect in murder of Algerian opposition figure (AFP, 16.08.08)
• Algeria condemns military coup in Mauritania (EK, 14.08.08)
• Iran, Algeria highlight Islamic unity (PressTV, 12.08.08)
• Booby-trapped car blast kills 8 and injures 19 in Boumerdes (EK, 11.08.08)
• President Bouteflika visits Iran to boost cooperation between both countries (EK, 11.08.08)
• Ali Belhadj examines killed terrorists’ corpses in hospital of Tizi Ouzou (EK, 11.08.08)
• Al-Qaeda in North Africa executes a criminal plan and misleads young people (EK, 10.08.08)
• Al-Qaeda got rid of an ill terrorist by persuading him committing a suicide attack in Tizi Ouzou (EK, 07.08.08)
• Madani Mezrag: “Al-Qaeda leaders carry out a plan laid down by foreign intelligence services” (EK, 05.08.08)
• A kamikaze attack in Tizi Ouzou injures 26 (EK, 04.08.08)
• “Neither President nor Constitutional institutions govern Algeria but a mafia band” (EK, 02.08.08)
• Joint security services brigades to be created to unmask illegal migration networks’ tycoons (EK, 02.08.08)
• Human Rights League’ Chairman: “General Prosecutors refuse opening investigation on torture cases” (EK, 31.07.08)
• Algerian law should adapt to international conventions (EK, 31.07.08)
• Negotiations between Tuareg and Mali in Algiers focus on prisoners’ issue (EK, 21.07.08)
• A road map to dry financial sources of Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (EK, 21.07.08)
• Merkel Lobbies for German Gas Supplies in Algeria (Bloomberg, 17.07.08)
• German Chancellor Merkel Promotes Business Ties With Algeria (DW, 17.07.08)
• Two Algerians Missing Since Their July 2 Return Home (HRW, 11.07.08)
• Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights? (AI, 11.07.08)
• Vatican urges truth over French monks slain in Algeria in 1996 (BBC, 08.07.08)
• Algerian presence to boost Med Union launch (Reuters, 07.07.08)
• Ragtag Insurgency Gains a Lifeline From Al Qaeda (NYT, 01.07.08)
• Bouteflika appoints Ouyahia as the new Prime Minister (EK, 24.06.08)
• Algeria chooses new prime minister (AP, 24.06.08)
• UK Ambassador to Algeria Mr. Andrew Henderson to El Khabar forum (EK, 24.06.08)
• “My arrested friends are victims of a conspiracy and have no link with Al-Qaeda” (EK, 24.06.08)
• French premier in Algeria to press for Mediterranean Union (IHT, 22.06.08)
• These are the reasons of Algeria’s reservations on Sarkozy project (EK, 19.06.08)
• U.S Supreme Court issues order in favour of Algerian prisoner in Guantanamo bay (EK, 15.06.08)
• Killed two, including a French engineer (EK, 10.06.08)
• Kouchner in Algiers to save the Union for the Mediterranean summit (EK, 01.06.08)
• Ahmed Ben Bitour explains the waves of violence in an interview with El Khabar (EK, 31.05.08)
• Political situation in Algeria blocked says Former Foreign Affairs Minister Ibrahimi (EK, 31.05.08)
• Khelifa defence refers to the non-conformity of the English translation with the original text (EK, 31.05.08)
• Medelci confirms the visit of French Prime Minister June 21 (EK, 29.05.08)
• Ian Lesser, advisor of former president Bill Clinton, to El Khabar (EK, 29.05.08)
• Algeria will receive a new order of Russian aircraft in early 2009 (EK, 29.05.08)
• British justice to come to a decision today about CEO of bankrupted company El Khalifa (EK, 29.05.08)
• Foreign Ministers of the Mediterranean forum to discuss Sarkozy draft (EK, 25.05.08)
• Canada wishes to join Algeria in Quebec Francophonia summit (EK, 25.05.08)
• ‘Draconian’ Home Office fast-tracks Algerian’s deportation (TE, 25.05.08)
• Algeria likely to accept receiving UN Special Rapporteurs (EK, 11.05.08)
• Red Cross investigating with beaten prisoners at El Harrach prison (EK, 11.05.08)
• Spain rejects unveiling hundred haragas bodies in Almeria (EK, 05.05.08)
• Libya: 60 prisoners start a hunger strike (EK, 05.05.08)
• Committee against torture hears response of Algeria (UNOG, 05.05.08)
• The French Interior Minister, Ms. Michèle Alliot-Marie to El Khabar (EK, 05.05.08)
• Energy Minister eager increasing gas oil prices (EK, 04.05.08)
• “Freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution, soon confiscated by legislators!” (EK, 04.05.08)
• UN commission calls for the lifting of the emergency state in Algeria (EC, 03.05.08)
• War archival records to historians by next 2012 (EK, 03.05.08)
• Committee against torture begins review of report of Algeria (APO, 02.05.08)
• Rabah Kadri was released (AI, 30.04.08)
• Algeria presents torture related- report to UN Committee against Torture next May.2 (EK, 24.04.08)
• Denmark: “Terror threats force us closing our Embassy in Algiers” (EK, 24.04.08)
• Algeria studies application by U.S requiring 3 Algerian suspect prisoner’s transfer (EK, 22.04.08)
• Algeria negotiations with WTO omitting national sovereignty issues (EK, 21.04.08)
• Niger People’s Movement for Justice denies contacts with Al Qaeda (EK, 21.04.08)
• Demonstrators accuse political party leader of involvement in famous singer assassination (EC, 20.04.08)
• Rabah Kadri: Fear for safety/ fear of torture and other ill-treatment (AI, 18.04.08)
• UN: Mixed Results for New Review Process (HRW, 18.04.08)
• Human rights report not reflecting real situation in Algeria say human rights leagues (EK, 17.04.08)
• Austrian hostage’s crisis: Three Tuareg mediators assassinated (EK, 17.04.08)
• 3 days strike repercussions: Truncheons to disperse independent trade unions representatives (EK, 16.04.08)
• “Algeria not a shantytown which can be visited by human rights commission at anytime!” (EK, 16.04.08)
• Algeria census begins (AN, 16.04.08)
• Putin arrives in Libya for energy, arms sale talks (AFP, 16.04.08)
• Amnesty International report : Algeria before US and Iraq in death penalty (EC, 15.04.08)
• Guilty verdict against human rights lawyer undermines (AI, 14.04.08)
• Confrontations between dwellers and Gendarmerie forces (EK, 10.04.08)
• Austrian hostages’ crisis: Vienna denies allocating half ransom to Al-Qaeda (EK, 09.04.08)
• Coast guards picked up three illegal migrant bodies (EK, 09.04.08)
• FBI experts trained 37 judges in terror and laundering issues (EK, 09.04.08)
• « No marines forces in the Algerian Sahara » (EK, 03.04.08)
• US Government behind failing agreement on Algerian prisoners in Guantanamo base (EK, 03.04.08)
• Benbitour: Bouteflika remaining in power a reflection of “non-ruling system” (EK, 26.03.08)
• Justice Minister: “Khalifa dossier to remain open whatever Britain position is” (EK, 24.03.08)
• Mosques and Quran schools to counter evangelization “fierce attack” (EK, 24.03.08)
• The CIA says the kidnappers hided in Mali (EK, 19.03.08)
• Libya makes contact with Austrian hostage-takers (AFP, 18.03.08)
• Austrian hostage deadline extended by week (AFP, 17.03.08)
• Austria negotiating directly with Al-Qaeda (EK, 16.03.08)
• 158 repentants want documentary evidence for their children born in mountains in 90’s (EC, 16.03.08)
• Guantanamo Detainee Gets Reprieve (EC, 15.03.08)
• Al-Qaeda ransom is releasing El Para and salafists detained in Tunisia (EK, 15.03.08)
• Libya denies releasing the 52 Algerian detainees (EK, 15.03.08)
• Bouteflika announces running for a third terms (EK, 13.03.08)
• Experts doubt Al-Qaeda’s tourist abduction claims (MEO, 13.03.08)
• Austria sends security investigators to Algeria (EC, 12.03.08)
• Algerian minister for foreign affairs criticizes Sarkozy’s project (EC, 11.03.08)
• Missing Austrians reportedly in Algeria (AFP, 11.03.08)
• Missing Australians ‘nowhere to be found’ (IOL, 11.03.08)
• Hans Blix Discusses Nuclear File With Algerian President Bouteflika (EC, 10.03.08)
• Work begins on Spain-Algeria gas pipeline (EC, 10.03.08)
• Tortured detainees likely pursuing El Harrach prison (EK, 09.03.08)
• 100 terrorists sentenced to death in absentia this year (EK, 09.03.08)
• Leader of Algerian opposition political party flies to US (EC, 08.03.08)
• Runaway Algerian billionaire Khalifa to appear before British court in March (EC, 08.03.08)
• Algeria’s heirless president (Al Jazeera, 04.03.08)
• Human Right League requires investigation on prisoners’ torture case (EK, 04.03.08)
• Al-Ibrahimi UN mission to start next week (EC, 01.03.08)
• America provided military equipment to Algeria: US diplomat said (EC, 29.02.08)
• Indefinite detention of four Algerian men unlawful (IRR, 28.02.08)
• Jail’s General Direction transferring 64 detainees (EK, 28.02.08)
• Welch: “Amending the Algerian constitutions matters the Unites States” (EK, 28.02.08)
• Malik Medjnoun, detained since 9 years without trial, on indefinite hunger strike (AK, 27.02.08)
• U.S. official suggests possible accord with Algeria on release of Guantanamo prisoners (IHT, 27.02.08)
• Several Algerian terror suspects subjected to torture, including “waterboarding” in secret US jails (EC, 27.02.08)
• Emirates International makes Algeria business push (Guardian, 25.02.08)
• Sarkozy’s Mediterranean project launched (EK, 24.02.08)
• Reggan…a witness of French occupation nuclear barbarism (EK, 24.02.08)
• El Harrach prison: a source of shame! (EK, 23.02.08)
• Returning fighters, Algerian style (RIA Novosti, 20.02.08)
• Bouteflika backs up OPEC Gas cartel (EK, 20.02.08)
• Bouteflika not satisfied with bilateral cooperation with Russia (EK, 20.02.08)
• Algeria Lays Down Russian Arms (Kommersant, 18.02.08)
• Public service trade unions strike continues (EK, 11.02.08)
• World Bank assesses health sector in Algeria (EK, 11.02.08)
• The European party agrees amending the Association Agreement (EK, 10.02.08)
• Suspects involved in 11 December blasts referred to justice (EK, 07.02.08)
• French former foreign affairs minister Hubert Védrine to El Khabar (07.02.08)
• 1996 constitutional presidential terms imposed by foreign pressures (EK, 03.02.08)
• Main gas exporter’s organisation discussed (EK, 02.02.08)
• Algeria committed to security cooperation with condition (EC, 01.02.08)
• An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres (Hoggar)
• Egyptian agents who ill-treated 3 Algerians to be chastised: says Ambassador (EC, 27.01.08)
• No Africom headquarters in African countries, according to US ambassador (EC, 26.01.08)
• Algeria to join WTO on the ongoing year (EK, 24.01.08)
• UN Secretary-General pays tribute to colleagues killed in Algiers (EC, 236.01.08)
• Living conditions in Algeria were better before 1985, says expert (EC, 14.01.08)
• At what the French foreign policy aims? (EK, 06.01.08)
• French expert: France cancelled Dakar Rally because of foreign pressures (EC, 05.01.08)
• Attorneys of Algerian detainees at Guantanamo to visit Algeria (EK, 05.01.08)
• A national unlimited strike in perspective (EK, 05.01.08)
• 300 thousand workers fired within 7 years (EK, 05.01.08)
• 4 dead, dozen injured in a car bomb (EK, 03.01.08)