| 5,469,460 |
32.49094 |
3.67347 |
Algeria |
|
Clashes between demonstrators and the police were persisting early in the evening on Tuesday 26 March in Ghardaia, it was learned from local sources. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators, who were angry over the arrest in the morning of 20 or so unemployed and human rights defenders. |
| 5,469,463 |
36.26405 |
1.9679 |
Algeria |
|
Financial services workers from the province of An Defla went on strike yesterday at the behest of their union representative, an affiliate of UGTA. |
| 5,469,467 |
36.71183 |
4.04591 |
Algeria |
|
On Wednesday another terrorist was killed by soldiers in Tleta Hidoussen, near Tizi Ouzou. |
| 5,469,471 |
36.74413 |
3.90045 |
Algeria |
|
A terrorist was killed and his weapons recovered at the end of an ambush by soldiers in the municipality of Oued Guergour, between Tadmait and Draa Ben Khedda, in the province of Tizi Ouzou. |
| 5,469,474 |
36.7525 |
3.04197 |
Algeria |
|
The strike of the Algiers Municipality workers which has entered its eighth day has drowned many districts of the capital in a sea of refuse, put the authorities in trouble and made them hire trucks to collect the refuse. |
| 5,469,477 |
33.35608 |
6.86319 |
Algeria |
|
The unemployed are continuing their protest movement in the provinces of the south. Several hundred unemployed gathered this Saturday 30 March on Martyr Monument Square in the downtown of the El Oued Province, |
| 5,469,481 |
21.3292 |
0.94791 |
Algeria |
|
Nine terrorists at least were slain by the security forces on the Algerian-Malian border this past Monday. The skirmish between elements from the ANP and the terrorist group, identified as a phalange from the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa [MUJAO], allegedly lasted more than an hour. The terrorists were of Libyan, Nigerien, Burkinabe, and Malian descent. It was in the Disderine region, also known by the name of the border triangle between Algeria, Mali, and Mauritania. |
| 5,469,484 |
36.9 |
7.76667 |
Algeria |
|
A group of unemployed youths who are residents of Sidi Ammar Municipality, Annaba Province, attempted mass suicide by threatening to jump off the roof of the Municipal People's Council building in protest at delays by the local authorities in providing suitable employment for them.According to eyewitnesses the protesters yesterday used daggers and cold steel to mutilate their bodies as a means of getting the attention of the local authorities to find a solution to their demands quickly. |
| 5,469,487 |
32.49094 |
3.67347 |
Algeria |
|
Activists in Ghardaia launched a hunger strike on Monday (April 1st), the latest in a series of actions aimed at calling attention to conditions in southern Algeria. |
| 5,469,491 |
36.2675 |
2.75 |
Algeria |
|
A policeman was killed and two wounded on Wednesday when they were ambushed by Islamists in the Medea region 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of the capital, a security source told the APS news agency.The attack came as police were providing security for the convoy of a local official, the source said, adding that one police officer died instantly when the gunmen opened fire. |
