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Algerian troops killed five Islamist gunmen east of the capital Friday, the defence ministry said, in the latest deadly violence to rock the restive Boumerdes province this month. The militants died in clashes that broke out at 0600 GMT in a wooded area overlooking the town of Dellys and last for about three and a half hours. |
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Algerians demanding work protested across the energy-rich North African nation on Saturday as organisers vowed more days of "rage". A small demonstration took place in Algiers where four people were arrested. |
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Algerians demanding work protested across the energy-rich North African nation on Saturday as organisers vowed more days of "rage". Belabes told AFP from the southern oil city of Ouargla that hundreds of job-seekers protested there, near the country's most important oilfield, in what the CNDDC called a "day of rage". |
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Algerians demanding work protested across the energy-rich North African nation on Saturday as organisers vowed more days of "rage". Saturday's protests were held in 25 cities. |
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Algeria |
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A "terrorist" was killed on Sunday, 29 September, by the National People's Army in El Mokrani in the daira of Khemis 45 kilometres to the east of Bouira. |
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Algeria |
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More than 150 workers on pre-employment contracts participated in a protest sit-in in the capital yesterday. |
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The security forces yesterday arrested scores of protesting workers on pre-employment contracts after confronting them with truncheons and sticks and dispersing them in less than 10 minutes after a sit-in began outside Government Palace. |
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Algeria |
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Six policemen were injured in clashes between rival communities in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia. Four people were arrested in connection with Monday's violence between young Chaambas of Arab origin and Mozabites, a Berber minority group. The six policemen were hit by stones thrown during a protest against water shortages in Ghardaia. |
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On Thursday three civilians were wounded in the explosion of another homemade bomb on the road between Ouled Benfodil and Kadiria. The remotely triggered bomb exploded as a passenger minibus went past, injuring three passengers. |
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Algeria |
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A joint force of the army and the gendarmerie in Bordj Bedji Mokhtar, Adrar Province, on Friday to Saturday night [4 and 5 October] killed two "terrorists" and arrested a third. Preliminary investigation with the arrested gunman showed that he belonged to a support group of AQLIM's the Furqan Battalion which was based in Tessalit, northern Mali. |