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  Algeria - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Official statements made at the time of these meetings indicated that Algeria was seeking support for its view that the "counter-terrorism" approach it had followed in the last decade had been vindicated in the wake of the attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001.
During these periods of secret detention, the government and judicial authorities systematically denied all knowledge of the detainees and only acknowleged their detention when they were brought to court or released.
The head of the CNCPPDH made repeated statements during the year about the need for investigations into human rights abuses and pledged, in particular, that the problem of the "disappeared" would be resolved before the end of the year.
web.amnesty.org /report2003/Dza-summary-eng   (1865 words)

  
 Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The flag of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria is constituted by a green and white rectangle embossed by a red star and a red crescent.
The green must be a composition of equal yellow and blue having, according to the diagram of contrasts of Rood, a wavelength of 5.411 and the position 600 on the normal spectre.
From 1958 to 1962 it was the flag of the Provisional Government in exile, but was retained when independence was achieved in 1962 and has remained unchanged ever since.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/dz.html   (714 words)

  
 CHARLES BRAY's Algeri Journal
Algeria is a huge country, the second largest in Africa [only Sudan is bigger] and the 11th largest in the world.
Government security officials said 18 people were killed when rebels opened fire in the village of Nfissa in Ain Defla province, some 130 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of the capital, Algiers.
In February 9th 2002, the head of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), one of two main extremist groups in Algeria's brutal civil war, is reported to have been killed by security forces near Algiers.
www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Africa/Algeria   (4110 words)

  
 Algeria Encyclopedia Article @ Helluva.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Contrary to Morocco and Tunisia, the conquest of Algeria was long and particularly violent since it resulted in the disappearance of about a third of the Algerian population.
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.
UNDP, Algeria has one of the world's highest per housing unit occupancy rates for housing, and government officials have publicly stated that the country has an immediate shortfall of 1.5 million housing units.
www.helluva.net /encyclopedia/Algeria   (3499 words)

  
 Algeria: a state of depression, by Lyes Si Zoubir
Algeria has only one centre to care for the suicidal, in Annaba - a drop of therapy in the ocean of anguish and fear created by 10 years of violence.
Algeria feels that since 2003 it has entered a fresh period of uncertainty, with violence possible.
Algeria has discovered that it has homeless people: in Algiers and other cities, families wander the streets in search of food.
mondediplo.com /2004/03/06algeria   (2581 words)

  
 CNN - Algeria rejects EU's call for openness - Jan. 27, 1998
ALGIERS, Algeria (CNN) -- Hundreds of peasants had abandoned farms in massacre-stricken areas of Algeria, it was reported on Tuesday, as the government rejected Europe's call for more openness in the violence-torn North African country.
On Monday, the EU urged Algeria to allow international help to combat "terrorism," to reconsider its rejection of outside support and give unrestricted access to United Nations representatives and the media.
Algeria's wave of violence began in 1992 after the cancellation of a general election in which Islamic fundamentalists had taken a commanding lead.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9801/27/algeria/index.html   (661 words)

  
 CNN - EU mission heads to troubled Algeria - January 19, 1998
Algeria's rejection of most international fact-finding visits and its refusal to accept even humanitarian aid means an independent investigation into the violence is highly unlikely.
The government has made clear that the EU delegation is not entirely welcome and will not be allowed to visit sites of killings and alleged mass graves.
Algeria's nightmare began in January 1992, when the army stepped in to halt elections that would have brought the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) to power.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9801/19/algeria   (502 words)

  
 Algeria (08/06)
Algeria is divided into 48 wilayates (states or provinces) headed by walis (governors) who report to the Minister of Interior.
Algeria has the seventh-largest reserves of natural gas in the world (2.7% of proven world total) and is the second-largest gas exporter; it ranks 14th for oil reserves.
In 2001, Algeria concluded an Association Agreement with the European Union, which was ratified in 2005 by both Algeria and the EU and took effect in September of that same year.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/8005.htm   (5838 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Middle East & North Africa: Algeria
Government officials continued to provide statistics on cases the government claimed to have "clarified," while rarely if ever furnishing any useful information to families.
France was Algeria's leading source of imports and home to the largest Algerian community outside of Algeria.
It was the first meeting between heads of state since a military-backed coup in 1992 halted Algeria's elections.
www.hrw.org /wr2k2/mena1.html   (3618 words)

  
 Algeria (1989)
America governs itself through the complex ramifications of a political system based on the principle of the separation of powers, in which executive, legislature and judiciary control and check one another at both federal and state level, and in which a very large number of offices are elective.
Algeria had presidential misgovernment under Ahmed Ben Bella and, after a period of what was in effect collective leadership, it was very well governed from about 1971 onwards by the late President Boumediene, who had merely presided over the collective leadership before that date.
And because Algerian Algeria is not doctrinaire and because her relationship with France is a fact which has to be accommodated, the 'Party of France' will continue to have its place in Algerian politics and to be represented in the FLN leadership.
members.aol.com /BevinSoc/l9Algeria.htm   (5852 words)

  
 Timeline Algeria
1997 Nov 9, In Algeria attackers disguised as policemen slit the throats of 28 civilians in 2 separate attacks in the northwest.
Dahoumane was arrested in Algeria In Oct, 2000.
2005 May 17, In Algeria 3 soldiers and 2 militants were killed during an air and ground offensive by government forces against Islamic rebels in the mountains east of the capital.
timelines.ws /countries/ALGERIA.HTML   (10423 words)

  
 G8 leaders meet African leaders for anti-poverty talks
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) met the heads of government of Algeria, Nigeria, Senegal, Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Africa.
G8 sources said Blair was heading back to the capital for crisis talks with security officials following the deadly London attacks which killed 50 people and injured 700.
Diplomats said last-minute negotiations were still under way on whether the 15-page G8 statement on Africa should include a pledge to double aid to poor countries to 50 billion dollars a year by 2010, with half the assistance going to Africa.
news.monstersandcritics.com /uk/printer_1032173.php   (422 words)

  
 afrol News - Algeria News
The group works to overthrow the government of Algeria and to establish Islamic states in the Sahel.
The report documents frequent flights of CIA abductees to the capitals of Algeria, Egypt and Morocco and torture cases in Egypt and Morocco.
He was arrested six months ago for libel, causing massive protests in Algeria and internationally as an example of the deteriorating human rights situation in the country.
www.afrol.com /countries/algeria/news   (1044 words)

  
 BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Algeria death toll heads for 1,000
A civil defence officer told Reuters news agency that Algeria had no sniffer dogs, which could be used to find the dead.
When President Adbelaziz Bouteflika tried to visit the scene on Monday, he was met with hecklers shouting "government assassins" and his minders quickly moved him away.
The government is accused of having contributed to the devastation by deliberately blocking the drains in some of the poorer areas.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1656812.stm   (491 words)

  
 BBC News | World | Algeria rejects massacre inquiry
Algeria has blamed the massacres in the villages of Had Chekala, Remka and Ain Tarik, on Islamic guerillas.
As the exodus from areas in the northwest continued, a diplomatic storm was brewing over international pressure on the Algerian government.
Mr Ait Ahmed added that the violence was being used by the government to deploy security forces throughout the country.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/45215.stm   (409 words)

  
 Algeria
Despite government allocation of substantial educational resources, population pressures and a serious shortage of teachers have severely strained the system, as have terrorist attacks against the educational infrastructure during the 1990s.
Government monopoly of newsprint and advertising is seen as another means to influence the press, although it has permitted newspapers to create their own printing distribution networks.
U.S. imports from Algeria grew from $4.7 billion in 2032 to $7.4 billion in 2004, 99% of which was oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
www.factmonster.com /country/profiles/algeria.html   (4746 words)

  
 Heads of State and Heads of Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The head of government is the top ranking leader of the government.
Some titles for the head of government include: chanellor, chief minister, chief of state, jefe del estado, king, minister-president, premier, president, president of the cabinet, president of the council of ministers, president of the council of state, president of the executive council, prime minister, and taoiseach.
table of chiefs of state and heads of government
www.nationofpacifica.com /gov/heads.html   (148 words)

  
 afrol News - Algeria "breaks up GIA terrorist network"
The GIA began its terror operations in Algeria shortly after the Islamist party Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) was robbed of its 1992 election victory.
The FIS and its military arm, the AIS, led the first armed campaigns against the coupist Algerian government, while the GIA was created as an independent and more radical group during the chaos of the mid-1990s.
In 1999, the AIS signed a peace accord with the Algerian government and in a subsequent amnesty, most fighters hand in their arms.
www.afrol.com /articles/15128   (636 words)

  
 DaVinci: Regional> Africa> Government
If we start acting according to our words, maybe there is a chance the Sudanese Government would do...
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Government has identified the priority police stations as seeking increased attention in crime fighting efforts and highlighted society's role in the...
www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Regional/Africa/Government   (465 words)

  
 Heads of government of Algeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] List of heads of government of Algeria
Head of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Revolution
Thereafter Head of Government exercised by Head of State until 8 March 1979
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heads_of_government_of_Algeria   (159 words)

  
 Michel Aoun could join Lebanese government -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Negotiations with prime minister-designate Fuad Siniora, who has been attempting to form a government since June 30, collapsed last week after Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement insisted to be in charge of the Ministry of Justice to put in place reforms and an anti-corruption drive.
I hope that the government will be formed rapidly and that we will participate in it," Aoun said.
The Lebanese media beleive some further delay is inevitable, however, because the government cannot be formed before next Wednesday when parliament speaker Nabih Berri returns from an official visit to Algeria.
www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=9186   (742 words)

  
 G8 Gleneagles 2005 Bayne's Impressions
The G8 heads discussed international trade and the prospects for the WTO negotiations in their first morning session and agreed on a separate document.
Indeed, Blair and the other G8 heads were at pains to stress that they did not allow the terrorist attacks to distract them from their main agenda, which embodied the best way of fighting back against terrorism.
The G8 heads needed to make sure that they were in control of their relations with non-G8 powers, rather than allowing gradual erosion of the intimacy of their meeting.
www.g7.utoronto.ca /evaluations/2005gleneagles/bayne2005-0718.html   (8529 words)

  
 Algeria Government & Politics News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Not according to the president of Algeria, who growled, “Interference in internal affairs may...
Qatar, Iran, Norway, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, Algeria and Libya.
Algeria industry: New chief executive of Wataniya Tlcom Algrie provokes controversy
www.einnews.com /algeria/newsfeed-algeria-government-politics   (1354 words)

  
 Seventh Franco-Moroccan meeting of heads of government - Press conference given by M. Dominique de Villepin, Prime ...
To achieve this you have said you believe in the virtues of a direct dialogue between Morocco and Algeria on the Sahara issue, which you have also described as a key factor in achieving this integration.
A dialogue between Rabat and Algiers is obviously conducive to encouraging the resolution of this conflict.
A positive momentum was created between Morocco and Algeria at the Arab League summit in March this year, and we think it necessary to pursue this avenue.
www.ambafrance-uk.org /article.php3?id_article=6361   (443 words)

  
 Businessmen and Heads of Government to Underline Trade Opportunities and Business Integration at The ASEAN-BIS Summit, ...
To date, 11 heads of Governments, have already committed to delivering key note addresses at the inaugural summit organised by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC), with topics centred on maximising on investment opportunities between member countries as well as with ASEAN partner nations like
Also attending the Summit will be a delegation of businessmen from China, India, Japan and Korea as well as representatives from the business community in Algeria, Holland, France, the United States and Mexico.
The ASEAN-BAC that concluded their fourth official meeting in Putrajaya today (September 23) will also be forwarding their recommendation to the heads of Government on measures to encourage this.
www.aseansec.org /15127.htm   (660 words)

  
 Algeria News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Algeria praises Shell's decision to not to hire Sonatrach employees
An Algerian author adopted his wife's name to write a book about an Israeli doctor.
DJ Algeria Oil Min: OPEC May Revisit Dec Decision In 1Q -2-
www.einnews.com /algeria   (568 words)

  
 Country briefing: Algeria
The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam
The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History
Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation
www.al-bab.com /arab/countries/algeria.htm   (149 words)

  
 Iraq
Presidents of the Governing Council² (subordinated to the civil administrator)
Members of the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) 13 Jul 2003 - 1 Jun 2004 were:
a government there, opposed to the one controlled by the
www.worldstatesmen.org /Iraq.htm   (2496 words)

  
 57th General Assembly Session
The following are Heads of State and Government speaking during the General Debates:
Pakalitha Bethuel Mosisili, Prime Minister and Minister for Defence and Public Service of the Kingdom of Lesotho, addressing the General Assembly on September 15.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, addressing the General Assembly on September 17.
www.un.org /av/photo/ga/gaheads57.htm   (873 words)

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