Algeria News

MUSCAT a ' His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has congratulated President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on their countriesa TM Independence anniversary.

More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.

All set for Pan-African Festival By Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Zimbabwean artists will join a host of others from the continent at the second Pan-African Festival of Algiers from July 5 to 20.

The twin blasts that caused such devastation in Algeria this week were a grim announcement that an Islamic group once thought to have been defeated is back and is now poised to extend its murderous tactics throughout North Africa and possibly to Europe.

The project covers derivation of the Sebgag River in the province of Laghouat and is built for the National Irrigation and Drainage Authority .

It's a crash, bang, wallop of a movie with nothing to suggest anything but technical skill has gone into it Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Restaurants Rachel Cooke To eat at Palm is to experience time travel Palm Henry Hitchings The story is paper-thin, and the acting a little uneven but the vocal performances make the production fly Been So ...

The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

BEIRUT: Like the summer solstice that it marks, Fete de la Musique, the night-long musical celebration of the year's briefest night, returns to Beirut streets this Sunday for its ninth round of Franco-Arab vibrations.

By Lamine Chikhi Algiers - Support is building among Algeria's ruling elite for a plan to offer a new amnesty to al-Qaeda militants if they abandon violence that in the past few weeks has killed tens of people including a British hostage.

While the world's attention is focused on the fallout from Iran's election, an election in another Muslim country gave reason for hope: A Muslim Nation's Successful Election .

MONTREAL, June 16, 2009 /CNW Telbec/ - SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an engineering procurement and construction contract by Sonatrach, Algeria's national oil company to design and build natural gas process facilities in the Sahara desert approximately 1200 km to the south east of Algiers.

Islamist rebels ambushed a military convoy in Algeria and killed at least 18 police, local sources told AFP on Thursday.

Tuesday, June 16 12:02:25 Irish prospector, Petroceltic, today said it has completed drilling on its Algerian INE-2 well and found gas-bearing deposits.

Engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a US$1.1-billion contract to build a natural gas processing facility for Algeria's national oil company.

If there was any doubt that Susan Hutchison is the front runner in the King County Executive's race Dow Constantine removed it Wednesday.

The last time I saw Khaled, three years ago, he was ending his highly successful British debut concert at the Empire Leicester Square, grinning his great, fun-packed grin as a succession of young London Algerians clambered on to the stage and ran to be photographed draping their belts or scarves around his neck or clutching him around the ...

The Democratic Popular Kingdom of Algeria On the announcement that Said Bouteflika, brother of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is launching a political party.

U.S. President Barack Obama wants "immediate" talks between the Palestinians and Israel to forge a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement, U.S. envoy George Mitchell said on Monday.

Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a better look at the band.

Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, to give its full name in English, has its roots in the bitter Algerian civil war of the early 1990s, but has since evolved to take on a more modern Islamist agenda.