- The situation in Ukraine, which dangerously escalates tensions between Russia - Algeria's strategic partner and main arms supplier - and the North African country's Western partners, is a major test for Algerian non-alignment on the international stage. (thefrontierpost.com)
- Earlier this month, the Italian energy giant ENI stated that it expects a doubling of Italian imports of Algerian gas by 2024 and a 50 percent increase in Algeria's gas exports to France is possible. (thefrontierpost.com)
- Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Infrastructure Minister Bojan Kumer went to Algeria earlier this month to secure a deal between Sonatrach (Algeria's national state-owned oil company) and Geoplin (Slovenia's largest distributor of natural gas) whereby Algeria will cover one third of the Central European country's gas needs for the upcoming three years beginning on January 1, 2023. (thefrontierpost.com)
- The"barbaric attack," as described by Ennahar, Algeria's national broadcaster, killed 3 Algerians and generated a large outpour of rage from the Algerian government. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- In his talks with Secretary Clinton, President Bouteflika spoke of Algeria's historic role as a mediator between Bamako and the Tuaregs, an ethnic Berber people who inhabit parts of Mali and other nations in the Sahara region. (voanews.com)
- Efforts are being made to cut links between the Mali extremists and organized crime and drug cartels, the officials say, and to have Algeria's foreign ministry organize more regular contacts with counterparts in Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, and Tunisia. (voanews.com)
- Although the Russians do not want to see Algeria uphold its energy agreements with European powers (let alone help them amid the ongoing global energy crisis), Algiers is choosing to play a role that is useful to Western powers amid this war. (thefrontierpost.com)
- Algiers has an opportunity here, and to some degree pursued it, to really kind of explore and signal to Europe and Western capitals what neutrality looks like," Lawrence told Responsible Statecraft. (thefrontierpost.com)
- Algiers views growing Western support for Morocco on this front as problematic and reason to safeguard strong relations with Russia despite Moscow not necessarily being too supportive of Algeria on this file. (thefrontierpost.com)
- Algiers believes it must continue buying Russian arms while feeling increasingly threatened by the situation in Western Sahara and Moroccan-Israeli normalization. (thefrontierpost.com)
- The clashes that erupted Monday between Chinese and Algerians in the district Bab Ezzouar, Algiers, have triggered a host of reactions. (afrik-news.com)
- But the all too simple discourse has done little to appease Song, a young Chinese who works as a translator for a construction company in the Algiers suburbs. (afrik-news.com)
- Events from the year 2010 in Algeria President: Abdelaziz Bouteflika Prime Minister: Ahmed Ouyahia January 5: Terrorists have kidnapped an Algerian engineer who worked for the Canadian firm, SNC-Lavalin. (wikipedia.org)
- January 18: Sonatrach and ALNAFT, an Algerian state agency, signed contracts with a consortium of Italian energy group, Enel, Spanish Repsol, and Franco-Belgian GDF Suez, which will explore and exploit a gas field in southeast Algeria. (wikipedia.org)
- February 17: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised Algerian Minister of Youth and Sports, Hachemi Djiar, that he will support sports activities in Algeria. (wikipedia.org)
- Although this approach has effectively se-rved Algerian interests, the longer this conflict rages on, Algeria will find neutrality harder to maintain. (thefrontierpost.com)
- Some Western pundits and lawmakers in Washington accuse Algeria of backing Russia in this war. (thefrontierpost.com)
- By the same token, Algeria has not bowed to Western pressure to end its dealings with Russia, nor taken official stances against Moscow over Ukraine. (thefrontierpost.com)
- With Israel's normalization, the feud between Algeria and Morocco is escalating. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- Dubbed North Africa's new 'Cold War', the tensions between Morocco and neighboring Algeria threaten to escalate and the consequences of this have a lot more to do with Western meddling in the affairs of the two countries than meets the eye. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- Algeria justified its move further by citing examples, such as Morocco using the Israeli Pegasus spyware against Algerian officials, supporting terrorists groups, failing to uphold bilateral commitments, the normalisation of ties with Israel, and refusing to engage diplomatically on the Western Sahara issue. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- Although many of the accusations made against Morocco by Algeria have been strongly denied, they nonetheless have a real impact on public perception of the two sides. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- He said that "first you are going to have them [Algeria and Morocco] seeking regional supremacy, through the arms race that we have been seeing for nearly a decade now, but also through the diplomatic race. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- Saifi, who has been called the "bin Laden of the Sahara," was traveling with about 50 jihadists, some from Algeria, the rest from nearby African countries such as Mauritania and Nigeria. (villagevoice.com)
- Chinese presence in Algeria has become the source of heated debates among Algerians as violent anti-Chinese clashes hit the Algerian capital. (afrik-news.com)
- This led to a reported shortage of gas in both Morocco and also Spain, which had previously received gas supplies through the Gazoduc Maghreb Europe (GME) pipeline, despite claims made by Moroccan officials that the move would have little impact. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- And her talks with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika were dominated by the issue of how to deal with the terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists who took control of more than two-thirds of Mali after a coup toppled the government in Bamako last March. (voanews.com)
- In a backdrop of huge Algerian contracts negotiated by Beijing and skyrocketing numbers of unemployed Algerian youths in the middle of an economic crisis, anti-Chinese sentiments could be headed towards a boiling point. (afrik-news.com)
- January 19: A report transmitted by the Pasteur Institute to the Algerian Ministry of Health, Population, and Hospital Reform stated the results of their technical and administrative report on the vaccine Arepanrix. (wikipedia.org)
- Algerians have taken to the streets to voice their discontent with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's plan to run for a fifth term in office. (ecfr.eu)
- Since Monday's violence, which resulted in several casualties, the Chinese government has advised its nationals not to walk the streets. (afrik-news.com)
- Soldiers from Niger, assisted by American and Algerian special forces, had fought with Saifi twice in the past several weeks. (villagevoice.com)
- Lebovich is currently a doctoral candidate in African History at Columbia University in New York, where he studies religion, politics, and society in North Africa, the Sahara, and the Sahel. (ecfr.eu)
- Also commercial vessels, as the Alarm Phone has repeatedly documented, are part of this industry in which human rights abuses and the violation of the laws of the sea are systematically orchestrated and carried out by European governments, EU institutions, allies in Northern Africa and elsewhere, as well as commercial actors. (alarmphone.org)
- 2014 is the date of expiration of a contract between Sonatrach and the Turkish company BOTAŞ. (wikipedia.org)
- The Western Sahara issue is always central to Algerian foreign policy decision-making. (thefrontierpost.com)
- The following day, alleged drone strikes carried out by Morocco directly targeted clearly marked Algerian trucks near the Mauritanian border with the disputed Western Sahara region. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- All the people I know are very respectful of Algerians and their religion. (afrik-news.com)
- Most of the tourists were German, and the German government, which reportedly paid the ransom, filed an international arrest warrant for Saifi. (villagevoice.com)
- March 2: The slaying of Algerian national police chief, Ali Tounsi, came at a time of heightening political tension between President Bouteflika and his intelligence services. (wikipedia.org)
- For the first time, the Chinese government has broken its silence and called on the Algerian government to take the necessary measures to punish those responsible for the violent attacks and also "prevent the reoccurrence of such incidents. (afrik-news.com)
- The government is accusing us despite the fact that we have been victims to such attacks for a long time… and they have never intervened," says Song. (afrik-news.com)
- To blame for the attack, according to the authorities, was "the Zionist entity [Israel]" and a "North African country," broadly interpreted to have meant Morocco. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
- The Sahara is usually described as a vast empty land that is sparsely populated, and as representing an Eldorado of renewable energy, thus constituting a golden opportunity to provide Europe with energy so it can continue its extravagant consumerist lifestyle and excessive energy consumption. (tni.org)
- Algiers Port, General View of Algiers on 24 November 2017 Algerian voters are choosing new local leaders in an election marked by the frustration of growing poverty caused by low oil prices. (crisisgroup.org)
- Pioneering French ethnologist, a student of Algerian desert tribes, who was an early leader in the French Resistance during World War II , survived internment at the Ravensbrück concentration camp , wrote a germinal study of the camp system, and worked for peace during the Algerian War for Independence. (encyclopedia.com)
- Following intermittent riots and revolts against colonial rule, in 1956, Morocco regained its independence and reunified. (wmflabs.org)
- Since independence, Morocco has remained relatively stable. (wmflabs.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. (bharatpedia.org)
- The executive branch is led by the King of Morocco and the prime minister , while legislative power is vested in the two chambers of parliament: the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors . (wmflabs.org)
- January 19: A report transmitted by the Pasteur Institute to the Algerian Ministry of Health, Population, and Hospital Reform stated the results of their technical and administrative report on the vaccine Arepanrix. (wikipedia.org)
- It has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. (bharatpedia.org)
- Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. (wmflabs.org)
- In 1975, after Spain agreed to decolonise the territory and cede its control to Morocco and Mauritania , a guerrilla war broke out between those powers and some of the local inhabitants . (wmflabs.org)
- He has written a book that discusses the French difficulties in subduing Morocco and brining it under colonial control in his 1986 book, The Conquest of Morocco: A Savage Colonial War (London: PaperMac Books, ISBN 0-333-44461-2). (smallwarsjournal.com)
- March 2: The slaying of Algerian national police chief, Ali Tounsi, came at a time of heightening political tension between President Bouteflika and his intelligence services. (wikipedia.org)
- This according to information released by the Algerian Trade Ministry's Economic Control and Fraud Squad. (wikipedia.org)
- [3] The native Algerian Arabic is the main spoken language. (bharatpedia.org)
- The Marinid and Saadi dynasties otherwise resisted foreign domination, and Morocco was the only North African nation to escape Ottoman dominion. (wmflabs.org)