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The Arab Weekly
April 21, 2018
Spanish Trade Minister Maria Luisa Poncela had raised the issue of imports with Algerian officials during Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's visit to Algiers in early April. “Spain does ... Imports are expected to shrink to $30 billion this year, official figures and government estimates predicted. China hasÃâà...
BBC News
April 20, 2018
A French appeals court has upheld a ruling denying an Algerian woman citizenship after she refused to shake the hand of a senior official. The woman, who has not been named, said her "religious beliefs" prevented her from shaking the hand of the male official in the citizenship ceremony. A governmentÃâà...
africanews
April 14, 2018
Thousands of people, including government officials and foreign diplomats, attended the prayer at the renovated Ketchaoua Mosque in Algeria's capital city Algiers. “The solidarity shown by the Algerian people in this painful tragedy reflects their respect for the great sacrifice made by our army,” Tayeb Louh,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 12, 2018
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has decreed three days of national mourning after 257 people were killed in the country's worst plane crash, the state ... The defence ministry expressed condolences to families of the victims, and government officials observed a minute of silence on Wednesday.
Aljazeera.com
April 11, 2018
Ennahar TV quoted an Algerian ruling party official as saying that 26 people onboard were members of the Polisario Front, a separatist movement in West Sahara - a territory also ... The defence ministry expressed condolences to families of the victims, and government officials observed a minute silence.
Egypttoday
March 16, 2018
The participation of Egyptians in the presidential election was positive despite the wave of the heavy rain that hit Algeria through the past five days, ... On his official Twitter account, Sisi called on the Egyptian people to participate intensively in the upcoming election and give their votes to whomever theyÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 16, 2018
In the beginning of March, official figures issued by the central bank showed that the monetary security value printed until November reached $20 billion in order to fill the deficit gap and pay of the government internal debt. Central Bank Governor Mohamed Loukal stated earlier that the Algerian foreign debtÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 16, 2018
Economists criticised the IMF's recommendations that “the Algerian government has failed to control the economic indicators after the four-year oil price shock.” They said that ... As of end of 2017, Algeria's foreign debt amounted to $3.85 billion, according to country's central bank's official data. “If the choiceÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 15, 2018
(Beirut) – Algerian authorities have arbitrarily deported in the beginning of March more than a hundred migrants of various African nationalities into a lawless zone of neighboring Mali, where armed groups have robbed some of them, Human Rights Watch said today. The Algerian authorities failed toÃâà...
International Monetary Fund
March 13, 2018
IMF Staff Completes 2018 Article IV Visit to Algeria ... “Algeria continues to face important challenges posed by the fall in oil prices four years ago. ... The team also held discussions with other senior government and central bank officials as well as with representatives of the economic and financial sectorsÃâà...
Christian Post
March 13, 2018
The government of Algeria has recently denied suggestions that its continued shut down of various churches in recent weeks and months is due to its ... Mission Network News reported on Monday that at least three churches have been shut down in the last two weeks, with officials refusing to provide aÃâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
Government officials did not assign specific blame for the gunfire and explosions that erupted in the downtown area of Ouagadougou, the capital, but the focus fell on ... Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has pushed south from its base in Algeria, into Mali over the past decade, and then to Burkina Faso.
The Arab Weekly
March 3, 2018
Algeria must reckon with distortions of undiversified economy after import ban ... Algerian analysts said the restrictions of imports might help the government trim the trade and current account deficits and protect foreign currency reserves in the short term if it withstands pressure from businesspeople andÃâà...
ChristianToday
March 1, 2018
ReutersUnder Algerian law all faiths are allowed to practise if they meet certain conditions, but proselytising is illegal. The closures come after growing concerns about heightened government pressure on churches and Christians in Algeria, with the World Evangelical Alliance's (WEA) Religious LibertyÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
On Monday, an Algerian official said that his country has allocated $20 million to manage immigration, in particular in response to recent pressure on its southern borders. In an interview with the government radio station, the director of immigration at the Algerian interior ministry, Hassan Qasimi, said.
Morocco World News
December 31, 1999
Washington DC – There is a strong feeling among Sahrawi refugees, Polisario' s military and civilian officials, and pro-independence groups that Algerians ... Recently, the pro-Polisario press in Tindouf and Algiers started a campaign to thank the Algerian government, military and people of their ongoingÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
December 31, 1999
The Algerian government has been scrambling to contain the backlash among residents of the southern part of the country over remarks on terrorism made by ... a transitional phase with the participation of Houthis in the government, and elections,” high-ranking officials told Asharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday.
The National
December 31, 1999
But when conciliation attempts between the unions and the government reached a dead end, the regime turned to Imam Ali Aya, a well-known ... The University of Lyon based Algerian sociologist, Lahouari Addi, argued in a conference last week that Algeria had garnered $1 trillion in the period from 2002Ãâà...
The Arab Weekly
December 31, 1999
The Bank of Algeria pumped out $191 billion to plug budget gaps for 2017 and 2018, the country's official gazette reported. ... The Algerian Finance Ministry said in January that the government needed $5 billion to cover the deficit of 2017 and $151 billion to finance the expected budget gap this year.
International Policy Digest
December 31, 1999
A controversy in Algeria over the growing popularity of Saudi-inspired Salafi scholars spotlights the risk governments run in a region in which they strive to control religion in a bid to counter militant strands of Islam, often by touting apolitical, ultra-conservative trends. These efforts are proving difficult toÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
... there has been no official announcement yet by the ruling National Liberation Front but a number of party executives and government officials have publicly said that Bouteflika would again be their candidate. If he wins, he will be 87 at the time of the next elections. More than 40 percent of Algeria's 41Ãâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Eni — also charged with corruption in Algeria in a separate trial — and Shell stand accused of handing out bribes during the 2011 purchase of OPL245, ... According to Global Witness, the deal resulted in $1.1 billion being paid into an account in London opened by government officials — and going directlyÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
27 (Xinhua) -- Turkey and Algeria vowed Tuesday to increase their annual trade to 10 billion U.S. dollars in the near future, during Turkish President Recep Tayyip ... Ouyahia said the Algerian government will endeavor to accelerate the implementation of all the agreements that have been signed.
China.org.cn
December 31, 1999
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is set to help Algeria build e-government by digitizing a large volume of official documents of various ... Many Algerian ministries, such as the defense ministry, the interior ministry and foreign ministry, are working to these ends and some of them have madeÃâà...
africanews
December 31, 1999
Algerian consumers, firms start to feel import bans ... Mansour used to buy Swiss chocolate for his daughter but in the past few days it disappeared from the shelves after Algeria's government banned ... Officials say the restrictions will encourage domestic production, protecting it from foreign competition.
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
On Tuesday, an Algerian government official called on Turkish companies to invest in producing the 850 commodities and goods which are banned from ... Algerian National Agency for Investment Development (ANDI) (governmental), during the opening of the Algerian-Turkish Business Forum which wasÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is set to help Algeria build e-government by digitizing a large volume of official documents of ... Many Algerian ministries, such as the defense ministry, the interior ministry and foreign ministry, are working to these ends and some of them have madeÃâà...
