complicity in justifying war crimes' in connection with his memoir about Algerian independence war The French general Paul Aussaresses, whose cold admission of executions and torture during the Algerian independence war five decades ago forced France to examine a dark period of its past, has died. He was 95. Aussaresses, whose death was announced on Wednesday on the website of the veterans' association...
own view of his birth country has been much on readers' minds Last week on the Reading group, a contributor called MythicalMagpie wrote : "I think you could write an entire essay on the fact that while Meursault is apparently meant to be telling the story, it is really Camus who is guiding his pen. I find Meursault an impossible human being and wonder how much of Camus leaked in to fill the gaps,...
s capital, said: "This was in fact a case of poor people and children who were being trafficked to Algeria. There is an inquiry underway but we know that this was trafficking because economic migrants go to Libya – in Libya you find people of all nationalities, from Nigeria, Cameroon and other countries, heading to Europe. "In this case all the victims were Nigerien from Zinder, and they were being...
s Oriental province . Only the donkeys are left to convey the vital fuel, and prices have soared. The smugglers claim that the Algerian forces even shoot at the animals, two of which were allegedly blown up recently. There is also talk of ditches being dug, "six to eight metres deep", on the other side of the border. The cabinet assembled in Algiers last month for a meeting attended by President Abdelaziz...
Nabil Said Hadjarab and Mutia Sadiq Ahmad Sayyab approved for release, bringing down number of detainees at base to 164 The US Department of Defense announced on Thursday it has released two men from Guantánamo Bay prison to their home nation of Algeria. A Pentagon statement said that the men, Nabil Said Hadjarab and Mutia Sadiq Ahmad Sayyab, had been approved for transfer after a review directed...
Mourabitounes' alliance including MUJAO seeks to unite jihadi terror groups to 'confront Zionists' across all of north Africa The terror leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who is considered by many to be the most dangerous man in the Sahara , is officially joining forces with a Mali-based jihadist group and vowing to stage attacks in Egypt, according to a statement posted on Thursday. The announcement of the...
s also been known as "the one-eyed sheikh" since he lost an eye in combat. Belmokhtar left al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the north African offshoot of the terrorist group, and formed his own spinoff. He is accused of participating in the 16 January attack on a western-owned gas processing facility in a remote part of eastern Algeria near the border with Libya. After a four-day standoff the Algerian...
s army coup of the 1990s may be imperfect, but an embittered Muslim Brotherhood, denied of its democratic right to rule, leaves Egypt on the precipice Egypt's prospects after the ousting of Mohamed Morsi are unclear, but one fear stands out: that the overthrow of a democratically elected president will lead to a repeat of what happened in Algeria in the 1990s. Its bloody civil war erupted when the...
s end, his ambitions as a runner took him to Paris, where he modified his name to the French Alain, worked as a waiter at the Racing Club de France to finance his training, and after early successes in cross-country gained selection for France's Olympic team for London in 1948. In the 10,000m, on the first afternoon of the games, all eyes were on the battle between the Finnish favourite, Viljo Heino,...
s bomb attacks The former al-Qaida chief who was believed to have been killed after taking hundreds of oil workers hostage in Algeria, is behind the latest suicide bombings in Niger , according to reports. Statements attributed to Mokhtar Belmokhtar and his spokesperson have allegedly claimed responsibility for the blasts at a military barracks in Agadez and a French nuclear plant in Arlit, and threaten...
Algerian editor Hicham Aboud has accused the country's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers - My Journal and Djaridati. He said the ban was imposed after he rejected an order from the communication ministry on Saturday night to remove an article that claimed the president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had slipped into a coma. The 76-year-old leader, who suffered...
s two main exports are natural resources and weapons. Africa has plenty of former and plenty of demand for latter At the start of April, the UN general assembly overwhelmingly approved a new arms trade treaty . The treaty had been nearly 20 years in the making and seeks to regulate the $70bn international trade in conventional arms. Despite the recalcitrance of North Korea, Iran and Syria – the only...
s president Age: 36. Appearance: Oh, lovely, just lovely. Perfection, really. You sound nervous? Do I? And you keep looking over your shoulder. Is something amiss? No, not at all. She's not behind me, is she? No. This wouldn't be anything to do with the fact that she is the daughter of the late, apocalyptically cruel and violent Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi , would it? Actually,...
s wife Safia, daughter and two sons flee Staoueli, near Algiers, where they were living Libyan officials are trying to locate Muammar Gaddafi's wife and three of his children who are missing from their refuge in neighbouring Algeria. Algeria confirmed the late dictator's second wife, Safia, daughter Aisha, and sons Hannibal and Muhammad had fled the upmarket coastal region of Staoueli, close to Algiers,...