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Bamako - A west African al-Qaeda splinter group on Wednesday threatened to kill a Spanish hostage kidnapped in western Algeria last year if their demands are not met, a spokesperson said. "Spain is postponing every round of negotiations to answer our demands, and this is going to put the life of hostage Enrico Gonyalons to an end," said Adnan Abu
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Algiers - Algeria's constitutional council on Tuesday released the definitive results of last week's legislative polls, which saw the former single party tighten its grip on power and the Islamists lose ground. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's National Liberation Front took 221 of the enlarged national assembly's 462 seats, according to results slightly adjusted from the preliminary figures published on Friday. Prime
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Algiers - Algeria's legislative election saw women take almost a third of the seats, making the national assembly the most gender-balanced in the region but activists say the battle is far from being won. According to a provisional count, at least 145 of the new, enlarged national assembly's 462 seats will be occupied by women, up from a representation of
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Algiers - European Union observers on Saturday gave a qualified endorsement to an Algerian parliamentary election which handed victory to the ruling party, bucking the trend of the "Arab Spring" revolts. Some opposition forces expressed suspicions there had been manipulation of Thursday's vote. The authorities denied this. Jose Ignacio Salafranca, head of the EU's observer mission in Algeria, said there
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Algiers - Algeria's historical ruling party won 220 of the 462 seats up for grabs in the legislative polls while moderate Islamists suffered a setback, according to official results released on Friday. The National Liberation Front improved its share of power from 136 to 220 seats in the national assembly, which was enlarged from 389 to 462, Interior Minister Daho
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Algiers - Algeria's government newspapers printed special Friday editions to hail legislative polls they said confirmed the country's democratic credentials and choice of stability. The government announced a turnout of 42.9% in Thursday's vote, an improvement on the previous parliamentary polls held in 2007 that contrasted sharply with low voter interest during the campaign. "If there's a winner on this
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Algiers - Algeria on Thursday held its first polls since the Arab Spring amid deep voter disaffection, with the ageing ruling party confident of victory and its Islamist allies hoping for a strong showing. As it does for every election, state television - the country's only channel - showed live footage of voters pouring into a polling station as soon
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Algeria readied on Thursday for its first election since the Arab Spring swept the region, with the historical ruling party, its moderate Islamist allies and the boycott camp all hoping to claim victory. Social discontent and deadly riots rattled Algeria in January 2011 when revolts were spreading across the region but President Abdelaziz Bouteflika snuffed out the protests with a
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Algiers - In the gritty, working class Algiers suburb of Harrache, activists sporting the green baseball caps of the Islamist "Green" alliance handed out election leaflets outside their party headquarters, urging people to vote. A middle-aged man pushed past the young activists. "The last people I voted for were thrown into jail," he said in disgust. "I'm done with that".
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Tipasa - Algeria's former single party goes into the May 10 legislative polls confident of victory but strained by internal divisions and the prospect of a presidential election in 2014. The National Liberation Front, which was the main organ of the long and bloody struggle for independence from France, was for decades synonymous with power in Algeria but its share
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Algiers - Algeria's Islamists are hoping they can surf the post-Arab Spring "green wave" and win Thursday's polls, but divisions and dark memories of their previous electoral victory could hamper their chances. After previously banned Islamist movements seized upon the wind of change sweeping the region to win polls in neighbouring Tunisia and Morocco, Algeria's Islamists were bristling with confidence
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While a large-majority boycott of the polls would no doubt be a strong symbol of the regime's illegitimacy, it is not clear how this would add to what is felt by most within Algeria already. On the verge of celebrating 50 years of national independence in July, Algeria's military-dominated regime faces in May a potentially humiliating and dangerous blow through
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Algiers - A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Algeria's Chlef region on Wednesday, but did not cause any injuries or infrastructure damage, the Centre of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics Research said. Tremors were felt up to 200km away in the capital Algiers, as well as in the neighbouring region of Ain Defla. The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 03:18
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Algiers - Algeria's next parliament will be divided as no single party has enough support to win a majority in the 10 May legislative elections, the interior minister said in an interview published on Tuesday. The vote is seen as a test of the reforms promised by the government to avert the outbreak of Arab Spring uprisings that brought down
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Algiers - Seven Algerian diplomats kidnapped in Gao in northeastern Mali are in good health, Algeria's foreign minister said on Monday, adding that contacts had been established with the kidnappers. The Algerian consul and six colleagues were seized April 5 and taken to an unknown destination in a brazen kidnapping claimed by al-Qaeda dissident group, the Movement for Unity and
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Algiers - The European Union on Monday launched its observer mission in Algeria ahead of 10 May legislative elections, the first time the 27-nation bloc is monitoring polls in the north African country. "It is out of the question that we will interfere" in the election or the campaign, mission chief Jose Ignacio Salafranca, a member of the European parliament,
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Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil expressed confidence Monday that Algeria would not shelter anyone who poses a threat to his country, in a reference to Moamer Kadhafi's family members who were granted asylum by Algiers. "We appreciate the humanitarian position of Algeria for hosting the families, including women and children, but we are convinced that it would not shelter those
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Algeria buried its first post-independence president Ahmed Ben Bella, hailed as an anti-colonial hero and the father of the nation, in a sombre and rain-drenched ceremony on Friday. Ben Bella, who died Wednesday at age 95 following a recent hospital stay for respiratory problems, was laid to rest in the Martyrs' plot in Algiers' El Alia cemetery, alongside other independence
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Algeria was in mourning on Thursday after the death of its first post-independence president Ahmed Ben Bella, hailed as an anti-colonialist hero and the father of the nation. The body of Ben Bella, who died at home on Wednesday at the age of 95 following a recent hospital stay for respiratory problems, was taken to the People's Palace in Algiers
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Boutflika has declared eight days of mourning for Ahmed Ben Bella, the revolutionary who became Algeria's first president who died in Algiers Wednesday at the age of 96. Before overthrowing Algeria's French colonial masters, Ben Bella served for as a French soldier for a time. He volunteered for service in the French army in the 1930s. During
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The seven Algerian diplomats kidnapped in northern Mali have been freed, according to the Algiers-based El Watan newspaper. Earlier a breakaway Islamist militia claimed responsibility for their capture. Algerian consul Boualem Sias, five of his staff and the representative of the Algerian community in Gao, the city where they were captured, were freed mid-morning Sunday, the paper says. Earlier a
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The Islamist gunman branded a "monster" by President Nicolas Sarkozy will be buried in France because Algeria refused to let him be buried there, a Muslim official said Thursday. Abdallah Zekri of the Paris Grand Mosque said Mohamed Merah's family had asked him to organise a funeral in France after Algeria cited security reasons for rejecting their request for him
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The father of an Islamist gunman, branded a "monster" after he boasted of killing seven people in southern France, is suing a crack French police unit over his son's death as the family prepares for a funeral in Algeria. The body of 23-year-old Mohamed Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian descent, was due to arrive in Algeria on Thursday, a family
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The French military experience in Algeria 50 years ago has left an indelible mark on a new generation of US officers, who have tried to apply the lessons of the conflict to the fight against insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. As France marks the 50th anniversary of a war that remains a bitter memory, the strategy and tactics employed by
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An Algerian court passed 16 death sentences Tuesday and Wednesday as 18 people were tried in connection with a string of bombings carried out by Islamists in 2007. Nine death sentences were pronounced on Tuesday, including one against Abdelmalek Droukdel, the fugitive head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), Al-Qaeda's north African offshoot. And seven were handed down on
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