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  Algeria Country Analysis Brief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Algeria is a member of OPEC and an important, growing energy source for Europe.
Algeria's Saharan Blend oil, 45° API with negligible (0.05%) sulfur content, is among the highest quality in the world, and European countries have relied upon Algerian oil to help meet increasing stringent EU regulations on sulfur content of gasoline and diesel fuel.
Algeria has ambitious plans for the expansion of the Arzew port area, including the construction of a petrochemicals complex, a condensate refinery, and a desalination plant.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/algeria.html   (5576 words)

  
 Algeria - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad-Din and his brother Aruj, who established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600s.
Algeria has the fifth-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and is the second largest gas exporter; it ranks 14th in Petroleum reserves.
Algeria’s financial and economic indicators improved during the mid-1990s, in part because of policy reforms supported by the IMF and debt rescheduling from the Paris Club.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Algeria   (1512 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Politics of Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Algeria has more than 30 daily newspapers published in French and Arabic, with a total publication run of more than 1.5 million copies.
Government Under the 1976 Constitution (as modified 1979, and amended in 1988, 1989, and 1996) Algeria is a multi-party state.
Algeria is divided into 48 wilaya (state or province) headed by walis (governors) who report to the Minister of Interior.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/po/Politics_of_Algeria   (911 words)

  
 Algeria - Wikipedia Mirror
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad-Din and his brother Aruj in 1517, and they established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600s.
Algeria’s finances in 2000 and 2001 benefited from an increase in oil prices and the government’s tight fiscal policy, leading to a large increase in the trade surplus, record highs in foreign exchange reserves, and reduction in foreign debt.
Algeria's official language, Arabic, is spoken natively in dialectal form ("Darja") by some 80% of the population, and, as in the entire Arab world, used in the Modern Standard Arabic variant in the media and on official occasions.
www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Algeria   (4192 words)

  
 News from conflict areas around the world
A policeman was killed in an attack on a chekpoint in the province of Tizi-Ouzou.
Algerias army bombe vehicles transporting weapons and one helicopter was hit.
At Bouira in northeast Algeria, four soldiers and seven insurgents were killed in a battle.
www.geocities.com /conflictstats/algeria2005.html   (682 words)

  
 netcyclo: Algeria: Government
Intended as a means of legitimizing Ben Bella's new regime, the constitution also established Algeria as a republic committed to socialism and to the preservation of Algeria's Arab and Islamic culture.
For the next ten years, Algeria was ruled without a constitution, although representative local and provincial institutions were created in the late 1960s in Boumediene's attempt to decentralize political authority.
Algeria's first national legislature was formed in September 1962 under the constitution drafted by the Ben Bella regime but was suspended in 1965.
www.netcyclo.com /places/polit/nations/algeria/ag-gov.htm   (1700 words)

  
 Skyblog de algeria213 : ALGERIA en photos
Algeria has the longest distances of North Africa, the dramatic and green coast of the north, mountains with people of strong cultural identity, endless desert, breathtaking oases, and vulcanic mountains.
It is the second-largest province in the country, with an area of 443,782 km2.
Adrar is also the name of a city in the province of Adrar.
algeria213.skyblog.com   (559 words)

  
 http://www.glocentra.com/algeria.htm
Algeria also is a member of OPEC and an important, growing energy source for Europe, Canada and the United States in parallel to be a marketplace for oil oriented foreign direct investments and promising one for capital and consumer goods.
Algeria also is a major natural gas exporter, accounting for one-fifth of EU natural gas imports in 2000 (Russia accounted for 39% in that year).
Algeria is the second largest exporter of LNG (behind Indonesia), with around 17% of the world's total, exported mainly to Western Europe (France, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Italy, and Greece) and the United States (about 5% of Algeria's LNG exports go there).
www.glocentra.com /algeria.htm   (5076 words)

  
 Algeria countries and capital cities information
The name '''Algeria''' is derived from the name of the city of Algiers; from the Arabic languageArabic word ''al-jazand#257;?ir'', which translates as ''the islands'', referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad DinKhair ad-Din and his brother Aruj, who established Algeria's modern boundaries in the north and made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600s.
People of European descent in Algeria (the so-called ''pied-noirpieds-noirs''), as well as the native Algerian Jews, were full French citizens starting from the end of the 19th century; by contrast, the vast majority of Muslim Algerians remained outside of French law, and possessed neither French citizenship nor the right to vote.
www.dancinglessonsfromgod.co.uk /countries-capital-cities/algeria.htm   (1771 words)

  
 Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Algeria's first president, the FLN leader Ahmed Ben Bella, was overthrown by his former ally and defence minister, Houari Boumédiènne in 1965.
Algeria's climate is arid and hot, although the coastal climate is mild, and the winters in the mountainous areas can be severe.
Algeria is prone to sirocco, a hot dust- and sand-laden wind especially common in summer.
www.tocatch.info /en/Algeria.htm   (4302 words)

  
 Hidden Killers 2001 -- The World's Landmine Problem
The provinces of Pakita, and Nangahar in the east and Herat in the west are also heavily mined.
The presence of UXO is widespread in nine of the country's seventeen provinces, with the most contaminated areas being in the northern provinces of Houaphan and Xieng Khouang, and along the border with Vietnam.
Quang Tri Province, which adjoins the former border between North and South Vietnam, is one of the most affected regions, but landmines and UXO also pose a threat near the border with China and regions bordering Laos.
www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/rpt/hk/2001/6961.htm   (5861 words)

  
 Energy profile of Algeria - Encyclopedia of Earth
Algeria should also see an increase in crude oil exports over the next few years, due to the substitution of natural gas for oil in domestic energy consumption.
Algeria's largest petrochemical plants include Annaba (a 550,000-ton-per-year (t/y) ammonium nitrate facility, and nitric acid complex), Arzew (365,000-t/y ammonia, 146,000-t/y urea, and 182,500-t/y ammonium nitrate), and Skikda (130,000-t/y high-density polyethylene unit, 120,000-t/y ethylene cracker, and a substantial aromatics complex).
Algeria is the third largest exporter of LNG (behind Indonesia and Malaysia), with around 14 percent of the world's total.
www.eoearth.org /article/Energy_profile_of_Algeria   (4552 words)

  
 Algeria LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Algeria is a member of the African Union; it is also a member of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries).
Algeria is known for Bertolli's olive oil spread, although the spread has an Italian background.
Algeria has ten universities and a number of technical colleges, with a population of approximately 350,000 students attending college or university.
www.school-explorer.com /info/Algeria   (4465 words)

  
 jpl's Home — Metafro Infosys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The basaltic parent magmas of the HBG suite are partial melts of an hydrous mafic, potassic source lying either in the lithospheric upper mantle or in the mafic lower crust derived from it.
A model is proposed for the genesis of the Taourirt province where reworking of the mega-shear zones, which dissected the LATEA metacraton, provoked a linear delamination of the lithospheric mantle, asthenosphere uprise and partial melting of the lower crust (or strong interaction with), giving rise to a mixed source.
The Permo-Jurassic alkaline Province of Tadhak, Mali: geology, geochronology and tectonic significance.
www.metafro.be /Members/jpl   (7949 words)

  
 Algeria: Deteriorating human rights under the state of emergency
On 9 February 1992 a 12-month state of emergency was declared under Presidential Decree No. 92-44 "considering the grave and persistent attacks on public order recorded in several parts of the national territory" and the "threats to the stability of institutions and grave and repeated attacks against the security of citizens and civil peace".
Those arrested in the region of Adrar were not sent to the nearby internment camp in Reggane but were sent to Ouargla, nearly 1,000km away.
During the same period reports of the torture of suspected supporters of the FIS reached a level indicating that torture was widespread and perhaps, in a number of Algiers detention centres, systematic.
www.amnestyusa.org /regions/middleeast/document.do?id=1289C080E2146D90802569A600603114   (8469 words)

  
 Oran, Algeria
Oran (population 700,000) is a city in northwest Algeria, situated on the Mediterranean Sea coast.
From 1708 to 1732 and from 1791 to 1831, the city was part of the Ottoman Empire, until it fell to the French in 1831.
During the French colonial rule over Algeria, Oran was the capital of a département of the same name (number 92).
www.creekin.net /c1131-n3-oran-algeria.html   (275 words)

  
 Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The left half of the Algeria flag is green and the right side is white.
The Algeria coat of arms was adopted November 1st 1976.
The flag is rumored to be a variation of the flag of liberation forces of military leader Abd el-Kader in 1837-1847, but there is no documentation of that.
www.vdiest.nl /Africa/algeria.htm   (389 words)

  
 The Hoggar swell
Carbonate metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle: peridotitic xenoliths from a melilitic district in the Sahara basin.
Geophysical and petrological evidence for the presence of an anomalous upper mantle beneath the Sahara basins (Algeria).
Alkaline magmatism subsequent to collision in the Pan-African belt of the Adrar des Iforas (Mali).
www.mantleplumes.org /Hoggar.html   (3686 words)

  
 Algeria: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Algeria and the United States have a somewhat ambivalent relationship, but the two countries formed strategic ties in the battle against radical Islam following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
Its members, including Algeria, that are pumping beyond their formal OPEC quotas aim to hold onto market share by using real output as a baseline for the...
Industrial activity in Algeria accelerated in both the public and private sectors in the second quarter, according to a survey conducted by the National...
www.mongabay.com /reference/new_profiles/985.html   (2251 words)

  
 French Colonies - Algeria
Algeria, in northwest Africa, is part of the region known as the Maghrib.
The continent's second-largest nation (after Sudan), Algeria borders Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, and Western Sahara and stretches from its 1,104-km (686-mi) coastline on the Mediterranean Sea south through a varied topography to the vast desert region of the Sahara (see map).
Since gaining independence, Algeria has tried to liberate itself from the economic legacy of colonialism through ambitious development plans financed by the sale of petroleum and natural gas.
www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Algeria.shtml   (1109 words)

  
 Algeria: algeria flag, the music of algeria, algeria news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The French conquest of Algeria was slow due to intense resistance from such Muslims as Emir Abdelkader, Ahmed Bey and Fatma N'Soumer.
Prevailing winds that are easterly and north-easterly in summer change to westerly and northerly in winter and carry with them a general increase in precipitation from September through December, a decrease in the late winter and spring months, and a near absence of rainfall during the summer months.
Tensions between Algeria and Morocco in relation with the Western Sahara conflict, have put great obstacles in the way of tightening the Maghreb Arab Union, nominally established in 1989 but with little practical weight, with its coastal neighbors.
advantacell.com /wiki/Algeria   (4421 words)

  
 Algeria History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
MODERN-DAY ALGERIA is a leading member state of the Arab Maghrib the term applied to the western part of Arab North Africa.
For 300 years beginning in the early sixteenth century Algeria was a province of the Ottoman Empire under a regency that had Algiers as its capital.
Since independence in 1962 Algeria has sought to create political structures that reflect the unique character of the country and that can cope with the daunting challenges of rebuilding a society and an economy that had been subject to years of trauma and painful transformation.
www.world66.com /africa/algeria/history   (504 words)

  
 The Annotated Ramsar List: Algeria
The rocky, "lunar" landscape supports few human uses except as a source of water for nomads and their animals, and no significant threats are foreseen, except eventually a possible increase in tourism.
The area is known for its ancient rock art, a small prehistory museum, and its Ksar or "fortress", which was formerly the stronghold of the Sheik Bouamama, a key figure in the country's fight against colonialism.
The coastal marsh of Réghaïa is the last vestige of the old Mitidja (alluvial plain of Algeria, limited by the sahel, the massif of Miliana, the Tellian Atlas and large Kabylie), and currently the only wetland of the "Algerois" geographical area following drainage works during the colonial era.
www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_algeria.htm   (5987 words)

  
 Map Zones : Mauritania Map
Cattle are raised primarily in the southern region, whereas goats and sheep are dispersed as far north as the limits of the Sahara.
Camels are raised mostly in the north and the centre, especially in the Adrar region.
Mauritania, Islamic Republic of, republic, north-western Africa, bordered on the north by Western Sahara and Algeria, on the east by Mali, on the south by Mali and Senegal, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
kids.mapzones.com /world/mauritania   (4446 words)

  
 Africa and Slavery 1500-1800 by Sanderson Beck
In 1527 Algeria accepted the overlordship of the Ottoman empire with its Turkish governors.
Algeria thus became a military republic in 1671, but fourteen of the thirty deys in the next century and a half were removed by assassination.
About 1653 Kwararafa attacked Kano while Sarki Muhammad Kukuna was touring eastern provinces, and the same year Kwararafa besieged and set fire to Katsina, which was reported to have been saved by the prayers of a pious poet known as Dan Marina.
www.san.beck.org /1-13-Africa1500-1800.html   (22906 words)

  
 Adrar
Adrar is a top level territorial administration unit in
Adrar is a top level territorial administration unit in Algeria.
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 Elliott School - Transcripts of Lectures and Speeches
Algeria has been a strong supporter of China’s policy on Taiwan from the beginning.
China began a series of projects in Algeria in 1980 in the fields of agriculture, water conservancy, and construction of hotels and restaurants.
China reiterated its support for Algeria’s effort to join the WTO and Algeria declared that Taiwan “is an inseparable part” of China.
www.gwu.edu /~elliott/news/transcripts/shinn4.html   (7353 words)

  
 north of africa . com
In 46 BC Numidia became part of the Roman province of Ifriqia Nova and in the 3rd century CE Numidia is turned into a separate province.
Sultan Mohammed V married a girl from one of the Berber families from the High Atlas, to reconcile the earlier tensions that were caused by the association between the feudal Berber lords and the French.
The second generation tends to have a dual frame of reference: first to their community and by extension to their country of origin and second to the Dutch society of which they are a part.
www.north-of-africa.com /article.php3?id_article=197   (7109 words)

  
 Algeria Provinces
I adjusted the 1998 populations of four provinces by one or two each, bringing the total closer to the reported figure.
Algeria is divided into 48 wilayat (provinces; sing.
The new provinces were predominantly formed by taking the old departments as they were, or by splitting them into two provinces.
www.statoids.com /udz.html   (1526 words)

  
 Tuareg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In southern Algeria, the French met some of the strongest resistance from the Ahaggar Tuareg.
In May 1990, in the aftermath of a clash between government soldiers and Tuareg outside a prison in Tchin-Tabaraden, Niger, Tuaregs in both Mali and Niger claimed autonomy for their traditional homeland: (Tenere, capital Agadez, in Niger and the Azawad and Kidal regions of Mali).
Negotiations initiated by France and Algeria led to peace agreements (January 11, 1992 in Mali and 1995 in Niger).
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Tuareg   (1835 words)

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