20120904 AFP Algeria's water resources minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, was named prime minister by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday, nearly four months after parliamentary polls, the president's office announced.
20120903 AP BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Members of a radical Islamic group in northern Mali are claiming to have executed one of the Algerian diplomats they kidnapped five months ago, when their fighters raided the Algerian consulate in the city of Gao.
20120902 AFP Security forces in Algeria have killed 10 militants presumed to be members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in separate operations, press reports on Saturday cited the defence ministry as saying.
20120825 AFP Corruption in Algeria is endemic and tearing at the fabric of society, an official human rights group said in a report published on Friday, calling for punitive measures against corrupt officials.
20120821 AFP Three armed Islamists, including a senior member of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) thought to be close to its leader, have been arrested in southern Algeria, official media reported Monday.
20120805 AFP Local elections are to be held in Algeria on November 29, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia announced on Saturday, quoted by Algerian radio.
20120805 AFP A fourth border guard died from his wounds after a clash with unidentified gunmen on Thursday in western Algeria near the closed frontier with Morocco, local media reported on Saturday.
2012-07-11 Xinhua Visiting Belgian Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, hailed Tuesday in Algiers the key role Algeria plays in the construction of the Maghreb Union and in the settlement of conflicts in Africa.
2012-07-11 Xinhua Algeria and the European Union (EU) share convergent vision on the situation in the African Sahel region, particularly the crisis hitting Mali, EU Coordinator for Counter-terrorism, Gilles De Kerkove, said here Tuesday.
20120609 AFP An Algerian man has died after setting himself ablaze in protest when a policeman took away his driver's licence in the Mascara region, the El Watan Week-end newspaper reported Friday.
20120527 AFP Dozens of opposition lawmakers walked out of the first session of Algeria's new parliament Saturday, condemning alleged fraud in this month's elections.
20120521 AFP Algeria's largest legal Islamist party on Sunday announced that it would turn down any offer to join the government following legislative polls it claims were fraudulent.
20120520 AFP Several members of Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) announced Saturday they had launched an impeachment procedure against the party's secretary-general.
20120416 AFP Campaigning began on Sunday for elections in Algeria next month seen as a test of reforms designed to avert the kind of discontent that led to a string of revolutions elsewhere in the region.
20120414 AFP Algeria buried its first post-independence president Ahmed Ben Bella, hailed as an anti-colonial hero and the father of the nation, in a sombre and rain-drenched ceremony on Friday.
20120311 AFP Algeria's opposition Rally for Culture and Democracy elected its spokesman Mohcine Belabbas as its new leader Saturday at a conference in the capital.
20120304 AFP An Al-Qaeda splinter group claimed Saturday to have carried out a suicide attack on a military base in southern Algeria which left 24 people wounded.
20120304 AFP A suicide car bomber drove into a gendarme headquarters on Saturday in southern Algeria, injuring 24 people and killing himself, the Internet site of the Arab-language daily En Nahar said.
20120221 AFP Algeria has uncovered a large cache of weapons believed to originate from Libya, including dozens of shoulder-launched missiles that can be used to shoot down airliners, newspapers said Monday.
