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Spotlight | Algeria
Chill with Paris helps Washington

In opposing France on how to handle the security crisis in northern Mali, Algeria will strengthen its security ties with Washington. At least that's the subliminal message which seemed to emerge from a visit to Algiers by Michael Vickers, U.S. [...]

Published on 15.03.2012 at 09:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Algeria
Security talks with Paris

Long at odds over how to resolve crises in Mali and Libya, Paris and Algiers are now regularly consulting one [...]

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Spotlight | Algeria
Hollande already seeks strong contacts

Confident he will wrest the French presidency from Nicolas Sarkozy on May 6, Socialist Party candidate François Hollande hasn't waited for the run-off ballot to establish his first "operational" contacts in Algiers. In fact, a clutch of his party's dignitaries [.

Subscribers only Politics 03.05.2012

Algeria
Washington's private anti-terrorism

Some twenty-odd high-ranking police officers, gendarmes, and Armée Nationale Populaire (ANP) soldiers recently followed a training course provided as part [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.04.2012

Algeria
U.S. business lobby takes new tack

Highly discreet in Algeria up to now, the U.S. State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is going to step [...]

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Spotlight | Algeria
Reverting to mediator role in North Mali

Algeria has abruptly changed tack in Mali. In December, Algiers finally got around to sending military specialists to northern Mali to fight Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). But an outbreak of hostilities between Bamako's regular army and independence-seeking rebels [.

Subscribers only Politics 01.03.2012

Spotlight | Morocco
CEN-SAD, Rabat’s secret weapon in Sahel

Dormant since the death of its founder and principal supporter Muammar Gaddafi, the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has attracted the keen interest of Morocco recently. Rabat wants to revive the organisation, established in Tripoli in 1998, and take it [.

Subscribers only Politics 02.02.2012

Algeria, Mali
Tuaregs take up the fight

The security situation took a sudden turn for the worse in Mali this week while, across the border in Algeria, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2012

Spotlight | Algeria
Gueant draws blank on 1968 accord

Paris and Algiers seem once again on a collision course over the question of re-negotiating the 1968 agreement on the free movement of persons as Algeria prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence next July 5.

Subscribers only Politics 08.12.2011

Algeria, Morocco
Rabat’s discreet start in fighting AQIM

In its debut on the world anti-terrorism stage, a Moroccan delegation attended the first meeting of the "Sahel" group (co-chaired [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.12.2011

Spotlight | Algeria
Abu Zeid issues ultimatum to France

The case of French hostages held by the branch of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) headed by Algeria's Abu Zeid has turned into a nightmare for Paris. Not only has France had to urgently repatriate the leading negotiator for [.

Subscribers only Politics 01.12.2011

Algeria
Algiers & Paris Could Clash over AQIM

In organizing an emergency meeting of military leaders in the Sahel at Tamanrasset on Sept. 26, the Algerian army’s chief [...]

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Washington watches as Tehran negotiates with Niamey for 300 tonnes of uranium

Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

Spotlight | Algeria
Chill with Paris helps Washington

Algeria
Security talks with Paris

Spotlight | Algeria
Hollande already seeks strong contacts

Algeria
Washington's private anti-terrorism

Algeria
U.S. business lobby takes new tack

Spotlight | Algeria
Reverting to mediator role in North Mali

Spotlight | Morocco
CEN-SAD, Rabat’s secret weapon in Sahel

Algeria, Mali
Tuaregs take up the fight

Spotlight | Algeria
Gueant draws blank on 1968 accord

Algeria, Morocco
Rabat’s discreet start in fighting AQIM

Spotlight | Algeria
Abu Zeid issues ultimatum to France

Algeria
Algiers & Paris Could Clash over AQIM