Ship with Russian crew disappears

 A cargo ship with a Russian crew has been missing for 12 days and its last known location was off the coast of Portugal, the Russian maritime journal Sovfracht reported Sunday on its website.

The Maltese-flagged bulk carrier, Arctic Sea, failed to arrive at the Algerian port of Bejaia on August 4 as planned and the [...]

Ali Tounsi attend de connaître le nom de son successeur pour quitter la DGSN

 Les jours du colonel Ali Tounsi à la tête de la DGSN sont comptés. Un haut responsable de l’Etat algérien a indiqué à tsa-algerie.com que la décision de son limogeage a été prise par le président Abdelaziz Bouteflika, quelques jours après l’élection présidentielle du 9 avril. Son départ devrait intervenir une fois son successeur à [...]

Montreal engineering company SNC-Lavalin to design town in Algeria

MONTREAL – Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group (TSX:SNC) has won one of the largest services contracts in its history with a $508 million deal to design and oversee the construction of Algeria’s largest modern city focused on the oil and gas sector.
The contract awarded in recent days is expected to be signed within a few [...]

GIA executed French monks in Algeria in 1996: former chief

ALGIERS (AFP) — A former leader of Algeria’s GIA said Thursday it was the militant group that killed seven French monks in 1996 but blamed France’s intelligence agencies for reneging on a deal to save them.

Critics have long been suspicious of the official Algerian and French versions that the Trappist monks were killed by the [...]

Baptism ceremony of the Algerian girl Safia this Sunday

The ceremony of baptism of the Algerian girl Safia (Sophie), will be held this Sunday in a church in Paris
The ceremony of baptism of the Algerian girl Safia (Sophie), will be held this Sunday in a church in Paris, according to statements by the French national Jacques Scharbook to the newspaper “Le Monde.” 
The seven-year-old girl [...]

Swine flu: Seven cases in Algeria

ALGIERS- Two new cases of influenza A (H1N1) were confirmed Saturday in Algeria, bringing to seven the number of people diagnosed in the country, announced the Algerian Ministry of Health.

    “Both cases involve people living in Constantine (east), who arrived on June 24 from Washington via London (England). These are two young men, aged [...]

Algeria sponsors Sufism to fight extremism

After using police raids, arrests and gun battles in its fight against Islamist insurgents, Algeria is now deploying a new, more subtle weapon: a branch of Islam associated with contemplation, not combat.
The government of this North African oil and gas producer is promoting Sufism, an Islamic movement that it sees as a gentler alternative to [...]

TURKISH AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH ALGERIA

Turkish ambassador in Algiers has called for a free trade agreement between Turkey and Algeria, saying that such an agreement would significantly improve commercial relations between the two countries.
“Turkey and Algeria have become two strategic partners as we have signed a number of agreements, and we can improve our relations especially in trade and end [...]

Britain allows extradition of Algerian billionaire

A court on Thursday approved the extradition of former bank chief Rafik Khalifa to Algeria, where he has been sentenced to life in prison over a massive embezzlement scandal.
Khalifa’s lawyer instantly said an immediate appeal would be made against the ruling by the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London.
Khalifa was sentenced in 2007 to [...]

A human-made wetland in the Sahara desert is a showcase of “Wetlands: water, life, and culture” — th

The Saharan desert seems an unlikely place to find wetlands, let alone a thriving fruit-growing business. But Algeria’s Ouled Saïd has both. Ouled Saїd is a network of oases in southwestern Algeria — an isolated island of green in a vast ocean of sand dunes. This human-made wetland covers an area of 25,400 hectares, and [...]