News from Algeria 2006

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It was shock for the new Algerian Ambassador to Tanzania, Abdelmou’aam Ahriz when he visited, Magomeni Makuti New Life Orphanage Home in Dar es Salaam last Wednesday.

Different sex children aged over 10 years at the centre sleep on the same bed.

Orphanage officials said the state of affairs was due to financial hiccups.

”This is not good for the children,” the envoy said chiding the centre.

The envoy donated foodstuffs for the orphanage. He asked them to study hard to have an assured future.

Tanzania was in the frontline in the fight against poverty which involved provision of education.

”You need education to be able to overcome poverty,” he told the children.

He said his country was ready to support Tanzania in the fight against poverty in the continent.

The envoy pledged that his country would offer university education to qualified students from Hananasif Orphanage Centre and Magomeni Makuti New Life Orphanage Home.

He called on the civil society and business community to support the government’s efforts in building a sustainable economy.

The Coordinator of Hananasif Orphanage Centre, Hezekia Mwalugaja thanked the envoy for the support to orphans.

Orphanage condition shocks Algerian envoy

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Four dead in Algeria rebel attack - report

Key figure of insurgency in Algeria reportedly dead

Speaker of Algerian council shot dead

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Rabat, Morocco, 10/12 - Moroccan security forces have arrested in the north-east of the country 13 Algerians who were attempting to travel illegally to Europe, official sources said here.

The sources said the immigrants, whose ship had ran aground due to the bad weather, had wanted to cross to the Spanish territory.

After their arrest, they were handed to the Royal Gendarmerie (military police), in the Moroccan town of Nador, for further investigation, the sources said, adding that some 300 Algerian illegal immigrants had been arrested in Morocco since the beginning of this year.

Morocco arrests 13 Algerian illegal immigrants

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Algeria welcomed a draft bill submitted to the Turkish Parliament for recognition of the French killings in Algeria as “genocide”.

Algerian Parliament Foreign Relations Commission Head Reguieg Bentabet thanked the Turkish deputies who brought the issue to the government’s agenda. Bentabet stated he discussed the issue with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to Algeria in June, and voiced his full agreement for the move.

Speaking to Zaman, Bentabet pointed out that France is unwilling to “recognize the genocide conducted in Algeria.” Noting that France is now attempting to evaluate Turkey’s history, Bentabet called this a “double standard.”

Asserting that they want France to recognize its mass killings as genocide, the Algerian politician said Paris is silent at the moment, but Algeria will keep insisting for recognition of the genocide.

Bentabet noted that the long-awaited friendship agreement between the two countries has yet to be signed.

French daily, La Tribune published an article on the issue and commented “The Turkish Parliament will defend Algeria’s history and benefits.”

The Turkish Parliamentary Justice Commission will discuss the draft bill on Tuesday to adopt May 8 as a commemoration day for France’s genocide in Algeria.

In the event the bill passes, May 8 will be declared commemoration day for the Algerian genocide, and those rejecting the genocide will be sentenced to up to five years imprisonment and fined 100,000 Turkish Lira.

In the bill, the genocide against the Algerian people is defined as France’s “inhuman actions against Algerians in the cities of Setif, Guelma and Kherrata on 8 May 1945.”

Three different bills on the issue were submitted to the Parliament in May.
Commission Head Koksal Toptan said they could no longer ignore the bills that have been pending for five months after France’s recent attempts.

Algeria welcomes Turkey's draft bill

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Police in Motril have arrested a 51 year old Algerian woman, who they charge with defrauding illegal immigrants.

They say she was part of a network which charged ‘substantial’ amounts of money to supply the immigrants with forged offers of employment in Spain.

The companies named in the documentation were non-existent.

Algerian woman arrested for defrauding immigrants

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Doctor Boughdour, responsible for veterinary Agriculture Ministry services, revealed to El Khabar intensifying preventive measures to face bird flu. Such measures have been relieved recently because there were no migratory birds. The follow up measures were not totally stopped and control networks were maintained, he pointed out. The gathering of all kinds of birds and poultry in closed places and catching migratory birds have been suspended. But at the end of September and the beginning of October birds began to return and this will continue till the end of December, he added.

Instructions have been given, through the Ministry secretary general, to prohibit selling poultry in the streets, to gather them in protected and closed areas and provide control teams with new equipments and new laboratories for treating and detecting cases in one day time, Dr. Boughdour highlighted.

Intensifying control measures to face bird flu

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Britain supports a self-determination referendum in Western Sahara