• Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Algeria covers an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), making it the world's tenth largest nation by area, and the largest nation in Africa, more than 200 times as large as the continent's smallest country, The Gambia. (wikipedia.org)
  • With a population of 44 million, Algeria is the tenth-most populous country in Africa, and the 32nd-most populous country in the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • Algeria is a regional power in North Africa, and a middle power in global affairs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Around ~1.8-million-year-old stone artifacts from Ain Hanech (Algeria) were considered to represent the oldest archaeological materials in North Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Algeria is covered by the OHCHR Regional Office of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). (ohchr.org)
  • Is Algeria the next great travel destination in Africa? (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Documents recovered from regime offices in Tripoli by Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper appeared to show that loyalists planned to import Chinese arms through Algeria and South Africa as late as July. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The Expanded Special Project for Elimination of NTDs (ESPEN) in collaboration with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) , supporting countries in the Africa region to develop NTD Master plans, can confirm that that Algeria has successfully reported zero indigenous cases of schistosomiasis for the past three years. (who.int)
  • In 2020, the marriage rate in Algeria amounted to 6.41 marriages per 1,000 people. (statista.com)
  • Algeria closed its borders to Libya yesterday as a row raged between its government and the Libyan transitional authorities over weapons smuggling across the largely unguarded frontier. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Shashank Joshi, a military expert at Britain's Royal United Services Institute, said Algeria has legitimate concerns over smuggling of weapons from Libya. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Algeria has been terrified throughout this conflict of stocks like this, explosive devices, being taken out of Libya and used by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," he said. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • After the attack in Algeria, a senior Algerian official announced that several of the terrorists were Egyptian- and were the same people who participated in the terrorist attack on America's consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans last September. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Algeria has offered to host peace talks for the mess in Libya, as has neighboring Morocco. (strategypage.com)
  • Despite the appearance of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) in Libya Algeria and most Western nations (especially the EU) still see a negotiated settlement as the best way to deal with the Libya civil war. (strategypage.com)
  • While the government continues to call for an "Algerian solution" to the chaos in Libya, less well publicized are the details of how Algeria achieved that solution. (strategypage.com)
  • Some of the Islamic terrorists still operating in Algeria seem to acknowledge that connection and avoid further antagonizing civilians with the kind of mayhem still popular in places like Libya, Iraq and Syria. (strategypage.com)
  • Demonstrators carry banners and gesture during a protest rejecting the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria December 10, 2019. (hrw.org)
  • Algeria in 2019 experienced the largest and most sustained anti-government demonstrations since gaining independence in 1962. (hrw.org)
  • The Sétif and Guelma massacre in 1945 marked a turning point in Franco-Algerian relations and sparked the Algerian War which concluded with Algeria gaining its independence on 5 July 1962 and the proclamation of the People's Democratic Republic on 25 September of that year. (wikipedia.org)
  • He had stood near a stadium in Cairo where the Algerian team was playing, carrying a sign demanding the departure of those who hold power in Algeria, before being deported to Algeria, where he was prosecuted and sentenced. (hrw.org)
  • Mali is cooperating with Algeria to prevent Algerian Islamic terrorist groups from setting up bases in neighboring countries. (strategypage.com)
  • Western commentators on contemporary Algeria have accordingly resembled nineteenth-century French colonial observers who, unable to grasp that Algerian society functioned in accordance with different rules from those which applied in France, hastily concluded that rules were altogether absent. (merip.org)
  • ALGERIA: WOMEN AT WAR offers a rare insight into the key role Algerian women played in their country's liberation struggle from the French thirty years ago and their equally important place in today's politics. (wmm.com)
  • Many excellently preserved Roman towns and settlements in and around Algiers lie testament to the city's rich history, with the remains of Djemila, Timgad and Tipasa all considered UNESCO World Heritage sites and popular Algeria tourist places. (qatarairways.com)
  • Government analysis of known (dead, arrested or still out there) Islamic terrorists indicates that groups like al Qaeda have not had a lot of success recruiting in Algeria. (strategypage.com)
  • There has been a surge in the death toll in the attack by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists on a gas installation in southern Algeria. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Terrorists seized a natural gas facility in Algeria on January 16. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Algeria finally got a political deal with its surviving Islamic terrorists only after a decade of horrific violence. (strategypage.com)
  • Despite the 2005 peace deal there still about a hundred armed Islamic terrorists killed in Algeria during 2014. (strategypage.com)
  • Acquired February 6, 2013, this image shows a dust storm arising in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria. (nasa.gov)
  • On a demographic level, Youssef Courbage shows how emigration to Europe has had a profound influence on the pace of demographic transition in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. (sciencespo.fr)
  • Morocco has found fault with the restoration of France's diplomatic relations with Algeria, as well as the reduced number of visas granted to Moroccans by France in 2021. (medscape.com)
  • Centuries of Arab migration to the Maghreb since the 7th century shifted the demographic scope in Algeria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Algeria To Announce Revitalized SME Law A new law for Algeria's SME businesses is expected to be presented to the parliament 'soon. (entrepreneur.com)
  • Algeria had gotten off to the worst possible start as with Sofiane Feghouli off the field receiving treatment for a head injury, Russia used the extra space afforded to them down Algeria's right to open the scoring. (smh.com.au)
  • An intensive government effort has been made in Algeria as well as in other North African countries to eradicate brucellosis or at least to keep the infection at a manageable level [4]. (who.int)
  • This image shows the topography of northwestern Algeria based on data from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite on October 25, 2005. (nasa.gov)
  • Today, Algeria, with its vast oil and gas wealth, spends far more than any other African country on its police and military. (npr.org)
  • Algeria is Africa's largest country and offers a wealth of natural and cultural attractions to the adventurous tourist. (qatarairways.com)
  • Since 2002 Algeria is again seeing oil wealth. (sciencespo.fr)
  • Algeria progressed to the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time in their history as Islam Slimani's second-half header was enough to earn them a 1-1 against Russia in Curitiba. (smh.com.au)
  • More than 200 people have been reported killed in flooding in Algeria and authorities fear the death toll could climb much higher. (voanews.com)
  • Thus, in addition to national reconciliation he was able to offer Algeria renewed economic growth. (sciencespo.fr)
  • The Mauritanian ANI news agency reported that sources close to Mokhtar Belmokhtar, believed to be behind last Wednesday's raid, had proposed that France and Algeria negotiate "an end to the war being waged by France in Azawad", northern Mali. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • And in Algeria, that problem is compounded by the war in neighboring Mali against Islamist extremists. (npr.org)
  • However, Algeria were posing the greater threat and Akinfeev went some way to redeeming himself for an awful error which cost his side a goal in their opening game against South Korea with a fine save from Slimani's first effort of the evening. (smh.com.au)
  • Algeria is a semi-presidential republic, with local constituencies consisting of 58 provinces and 1,541 communes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Six men serving a one-year prison sentence for taking part in a peaceful protest in late December 2015 in Tamanrasset, southern Algeria, were released as part of a presidential pardon on 5 July. (amnesty.org)
  • The Saharan region in the interior of Algeria makes up most of the country, and the beautiful landscapes of shifting dunes around Tamanrasset and Timimoun -untouched by humans-in the south are genuinely stunning, redolent of myth and legend. (qatarairways.com)
  • El Djazaïr, Algeria - Algeria is charting a course towards a significant public health achievement in the African region, as it nears the elimination of schistosomiasis. (who.int)
  • The conquest and pacification of the country that ensued lasted until 1903 and led to Algeria becoming an integral part of France in 1848 and home to over a million European settlers. (wikipedia.org)
  • This way of looking at things assumes that elections in a country such as Algeria can be evaluated according to a scale on which zero equals totally fraudulent or completely rigged, and ten equals totally democratic, free and fair. (merip.org)
  • Western evaluations of the 1997 legislative elections in Algeria were broadly positive, or at least acquiescent. (merip.org)
  • ABSTRACT A serological study was carried out in Tiaret province in western Algeria on 1032 cows distributed in 95 flocks to estimate the prevalence of Brucella infection and to compare the sensitivity and specificity of a range of agglutination tests. (who.int)
  • infection among cattle in western Algeria, to evaluate a number of serological tests and to discuss some epidemiological aspects of brucellosis. (who.int)
  • The study was carried out between January 2002 and May 2003 in the Tiaret province of western Algeria. (who.int)
  • To rigorously verify the interruption of transmission, Algeria will conduct an extensive survey, crucial in assessing the current transmission status and validating the success of elimination efforts. (who.int)
  • The border guards have incentives to catch smugglers as they get some of the value of the seized vehicles (usually expensive all-terrain models) and cargo as well as bribes from smugglers carrying items (like cocaine or hashish headed for Europe) that will not cause a unwanted publicity (about lax border security) inside Algeria. (strategypage.com)
  • Moreover, Algeria is strengthening its cross-border collaboration, updating existing agreements to include schistosomiasis management, and ensuring effective epidemic control. (who.int)