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In the News (Tue 10 Nov 09)

  
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Algeria was 8 brought into the 3 Ottoman Empire by the 8 "Barbarossa" brothers Aruj and 1 Khair-ed-dine, who made 2 its coast a 5 base for the 9 corsairs; their privateering 8 peaked in Algiers 1 in the 1600's, 0 after which the center 3 of activity moved 7 to Tripoli in 3 Libya.
Algeria has 6 the fifth-largest reserves 8 of natural gas in 3 the world and is 7 the second largest gas 8 exporter; it ranks 1 14th in oil reserves.
Algeria's financial and 5 economic indicators improved during 4 the mid-1990s, in part 7 because of policy reforms 1 supported by the IMF 5 and debt rescheduling 5 from the Paris Club.
www.cleog.com /algeria_.htm   (837 words)

  
 Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
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 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.
www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Algeria_.html   (1630 words)

  
 Suchmaschine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers (French Alger), from the Arabic word al-jaz--ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off the city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
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 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.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Algeria   (4289 words)

  
 Algeria Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
About one quarter of Algeria’s workers are engaged in farming, but the contribution of agriculture to the country’s annual domestic product is much less than that of either mining or manufacturing, both of which began their main growth in the mid-1960s.
A number of small Muslim states rose and fell in Algeria, but generally the E part of the country came under the influence of dynasties centered in Tunisia and the W part was controlled by states centered in Morocco.
In May 1958, there were demonstrations in Algeria by colonists and elements of the French army who feared that the government in France might negotiate a settlement with the Muslims; an ensuing political crisis in France resulted in the return to power of de Gaulle and the establishment of the 5th French Republic.
www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Algeria.html   (2590 words)

  
 Algeria - Gurupedia
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by the "Barbarossa" brothers Aruj and Khair ad Din, who made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600's, after which the center of activity moved to Tripoli in Libya.
Algeria's first president, the FLN leader Ahmed Ben Bella, was overthrown by his former ally and defense minister, Houari Boumédiènne in 1965.
In the 1990s, Algeria was engulfed in a bloody civil war after the military prevented an Islamist political party, the Islamic Salvation Front from taking power following the country's first multiparty elections.
www.gurupedia.com /a/al/algeria.htm   (921 words)

  
 Demographics of France at AllExperts
Algeria and its départements, although they were an integral part of metropolitan France until 1962, are not included in the figures.
At the time, racist theories were quite popular, and the dramatic demographic decline of France was often attributed (particularly in Nazi Germany, and also in some conservative circles in England and elsewhere) to the genetic characteristics of the "French race", a race destined to fail in the face of the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon "races".
This demographic recovery was again atypical in the Western World, in the sense that although the rest of the Western World experienced a baby boom immediately after the war, the baby boom in France was much stronger, and above all it lasted longer than in the other countries of the Western World.
en.allexperts.com /e/d/de/demographics_of_france.htm   (2522 words)

  
 World-Geography24
Algeria’s financial and economic indicators improved during the mid-1990s, in part because of policy reforms supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and debt rescheduling from the Paris Club.
Prevailing winds that are easterly and northeasterly in summer change to westerly and northerly in winter and carry with them a general increase in precipitation from September to December, a decrease in the late winter and spring months, and a near absence of rainfall during the summer months.
Algeria comprises 2,381,741 square kilometers of land, more than four-fifths of which is desert, in northern Africa, between Morocco and Tunisia.
www.world-geography24.com   (3443 words)

  
 WAAC: Demographics of Morocco
Even demographic books, such as the World Bank's and the CIA's do not mention them, except as part of the "other," which total one percent of the population.
The regionalisms found on the border with Algeria are similar to the Algerian darja spoken in that area of Algeria.
It is also found in Libya and in Algeria (referred to as "Chaoui" in the latter country), and is similar to Tarifit, found in Algeria and Morocco.
www.waac.info /library/Demography/tunisia/languages.html   (385 words)

  
 ALGERIA : Encyclopedia Entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Algeria (Arabic: الجزائر‎ IPA: [ɛlʤɛˈzɛːʔir], Berber (Tamazight): Ledzayer [ldzæjər]), is the second largest country on the African continent.
The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers (French Alger), from the Arabic word al-jazā’ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off the city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
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www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Algeria   (4341 words)

  
 [25 Mar 1999] POP/717 : SPEAKERS STRESS EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AS PRECONDITION FOR SUCCESS OF POPULATION STRATEGIES, AS ...
The study of Algeria's demographics had been improved by the formation of the National Council for Statistics, which had improved the amount and quality of data.
The recent demographic evolution had been influenced by complex factors, including family planning freedom for couples, a housing crisis, changes in population behaviour with respect to family formation and dissolution, social instability and unemployment, and external migration.
The goal of its national population plan was to reinforce the incorporation of the demographic and population dimensions in the formulation of development plans and social and economic programmes, as well as in the national strategy for poverty eradication, and the promotion of women and human development.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1999/19990325.pop717.html   (3857 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On the pretext of a slight to their consul, the French invaded Algiers in 1830; however, intense resistance from such personalities as Emir Abdelkader, Ahmed Bey and Fatma N'Soumer made for a slow conquest of Algeria, not technically completed until the early 1900s when the last Tuareg were conquered.
In foreign policy Algeria was a member and leader of the 'non-aligned' nations.
This is due to two reasons: Morocco's claim to portions of eastern Algeria around Touat (which led to the Sand war in 1963), and Algeria's support for the Polisario, a clandestine armed group seeking independence for the Moroccan-ruled Western Sahara, which it hosts within its borders in the city of Tindouf.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/algeria   (2810 words)

  
 TradePort Country Profile of Algeria from World Trade Press
Arabic is the sole and official language, although French and Berber dialects are spoken as well.
Education in Algeria is run by the state and continues to follow the pattern laid down during the former French administration.
The hydrocarbons sector is the backbone of the economy, accounting for roughly 60 percent of budget revenues, 30 percent of GDP, and over 95 percent of export earnings.
www.tradeport.org /countries/algeria/01grw.html   (602 words)

  
 Algeria Facts and Figures - Facts and Figures - MSN Encarta
Algeria Facts and Figures - Facts and Figures - MSN Encarta
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Figures may not total 100 percent due to rounding.
encarta.msn.com /fact_631504710/Algeria_Facts_and_Figures.html   (377 words)

  
 Algeria - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
Algeria's rapidly growing labor force of about 5.5 million unskilled agricultural laborers and semiskilled workers in the early 1990s accurately reflected the high rate of population growth.
Recognizing that the country's demographics would make youth unemployment a thorny social problem, in 1988 the government established the Youth Employment Program (Programme d'Emploi des Jeunes) to provide jobs and training for youths between sixteen and twenty-four years of age.
Because this program failed to meet its target of creating 40,000 training opportunities and 60,000 jobs each year, in 1990 the government initiated two other programs to help establish new enterprises either operated by or employing young people.
countrystudies.us /algeria/82.htm   (729 words)

  
 The Geopolitics of Oil: Algeria
Share of petroleum sector in the economy: Algeria remains highly dependent on oil and natural gas exports, which account for more than 90% of Algerian export earnings, and about 30% of GDP.
More than 120,000 people have been killed in more than a decade of civil strife in Algeria, where Islamic militants have been staging massacres ever since they were shut of out parliamentary elections in 1992.
June 2002: Extremists belonging to the hard-line Armed Islamic Group (GIA) killed 13 bus passengers and wounded nine.
www.iags.org /algeria.html   (170 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Map Filter »
Map of ICRC operations in Algeria (as of 1 Jul 2006) (PDF, 19k)
Algeria: Damage from Earthquake- Zemmouri (May 2003) (JPG, 192k)
Algeria: Damage from Earthquake (May 2003) (JPG, 200k)
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/doc404?OpenForm&rc=1&cc=dza   (159 words)

  
 Algeria
Reuters - Films from Algeria, Canada, Denmark, Germany and Mexico vie for the foreign-language Academy Award next month, and Clint Eastwood's Japanese language movie and the multilingual "Babel" will compete for best picture.
Algeria's Sonatrach Prepares to Explore for Gas in Russia
Algeria says Saudi opposition rules out OPEC meet
www.insidealgeria.com   (533 words)

  
 Progeria
A few have made it to be as old as 20 or 21.
In this decade, children with progeria have been reported in Algeria, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Africa, South America, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
The chances of getting progeria have been given in the following forms, but due to the rarity of the disease what is positively accurate is unknown: 1 in 4 million (estimated actual), 1 in 8 million (reported), 1 in 10 million (annual number of new cases)
www.angelfire.com /wi3/progeria/demographics.html   (219 words)

  
 AdvertisingAge - Digital Edition
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 The Reality Hammer Blog
The reason is that demographics is one of the most powerful influences on political, economic and social policy in this country.
You cannot understand most of the problems we face as a society or realize what programs are likely to succeed or fail if you do not understand the demographics of this country.
The 300 million people threshold has a lot of implications, but for now I will just join everyone else celebrating this milestone.
reality-hammer.livejournal.com /tag/demographics   (282 words)

  
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's end, due to the unfashionable topic of demographics.
Pundits and politicians prefer to discuss other aspects of social difference and reasons for social change such as economics and race.
Joseph A. D'Agostino is Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute.
www.pop.org /main.cfm?EID=885&print=1   (1046 words)

  
 Catholic Exchange - Your Faith. Your Life. Your World.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Unfortunately, another factor (demographics) tells us that there is no practical solution to France’s problem, and the radical Muslims are likely to win.
Regardless of the intrinsic wisdom of these decisions, the fact that they came in response to violence means they will encourage more violence.
Joseph A. D’Agostino is Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to debunking the myth that the world is overpopulated.
www.catholicexchange.com /vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=30785   (1140 words)

  
 Adherents.com: By Location
"Algeria: Population: 28 million "; "There are about 45,000 Roman Catholics in Algeria who remained after the French evacuation.
"Algeria: Population: 28 million "; "Although there were about 140,000 Algerian Jews before the revolution [1954], most moved to France.
As a result, the Jewish population, numbering about 230,000, closely identified with France and the French colonists, and when Algeria became independent in 1962, most of the left, 115,000 going to France and the rest choosing primarily Canada or Israel.
www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_10.html   (2296 words)

  
 French Colonies - Algeria (Part 4)
Visitors to Algeria will find quality accommodations at the Mercure Grand Hôtel Alger Aéroport, only 2 km from the Oari Boumedienne Airport.
An ageing French general — who admitted torturing and killing Algerians — has gone on trial in Paris, accused of acting as an apologist for war crimes.
The non-profit, human-compiled database provides useful links about Algeria, in both English and French.
www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Algeria4.shtml   (454 words)

  
 Algeria الجزائر   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Algeria: A bibliography of events since 1991-Cornel University
Algeria's Page A personal guide to Algeria from a Towson University student.
World Desk Reference Introduction to Algeria, demographics, and statistics from Dorling Kindersley.
www.arabinfoseek.com /algeria.htm   (65 words)

  
 The Arab American Institute
* * Includes those from Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
*Every ten years, the Census takes the demographic pulse of the population, collecting information ranging from family size and citizenship to education, income, and occupation.
A question on “ancestry” or ethnic origin gives us a snapshot of that segment of the country, which identifies with an Arabic-speaking origin.
www.aaiusa.org /arab-americans/22/demographics   (805 words)

  
 Census and Demographics Data - 2000, 2005 and 2010 Projections
The Right Site® Software has easy to interpret standard demographics, site analyses (3-ring reports), trend reports (Census, current, and five-year projection), demographic profiles (clusters), sales and store potential analysis, and retail store sales.
We provides targeted demographic data, site analysis, and general reference software that is easy to use.
Two reports are available: the Starter Set contains 50 of the most requested demographic data variables and the Professional Report that covers over 200 variables including demographic, quality of life, consumer price indices, retail sales, business statistics, custom profiles, and consumer expenditures.
www.mapmart.com /Demographics/Census.htm   (497 words)

  
 Open Source » Blog Archive » Iran: Demographics and Democracy
Home > Shows > Aired > "Iran: Demographics and Democracy"
Part Two (Iran: Demographics and Democracy) explores the burgeoning youth of Iran and the h […]
Open Source ® is a production of Open Source Media, Inc. Contents © 2005, 2006 Open Source Media, Inc.
www.radioopensource.org /iran-demographics-and-democracy   (1088 words)

  
 GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Africa - Algeria - People Facts and Figures
GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Africa - Algeria - People Facts and Figures
World > Africa > Algeria > People (Facts)
For comments and feedback, write to us at info@GeographyIQ.com.
www.geographyiq.com /countries/ag/Algeria_people.htm   (152 words)

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