News from Algeria 2006

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(AGI) - Rome, Jun 15 - Tomorrow, an international cooperation project will commence in Algiers in which experts and scholars of the Lega Pesca will go to Algeria to train fishing and hydroculture technicians and workers. The aim of the project, which is born from an agreement between the Lega Pesca and the Algerian Fishing Ministry in March 2001, is to strengthen fishing in Algeria, endowing it with the technical and organisational tools necessary to creating a modern and functional industry following the most current models. Training modules will take place in Algeria and specialisation missions will take place in Italy, in the Marche region. The organisational model to be shown to Algerian workers is that of cooperation. The most modern technologies used in Italia for small-scale fishing, which, being a highly selective fishing method, does not endanger the supply of fish, are to be sent to Algerian fishermen. The increase, protection and safeguarding of resources is also carried out through the development of hydroculture, which will be a topic of training. The training modules scheduled for the project are five and will deal with: the organisation of the sector; small-scale fishing; hydroculture; the planning, research, promotion and evaluation of resources; and the treatment and quality of fishing products. The inauguration of the project tomorrow in Algiers will feature, in addition to the Algierian Fishing Minsiter Smail Mimoune, Lega Pesca President Ettori Iani. "I am glad to be able to start off the implementation of this cooperation project between Italy and Algeria in which our association is working in one of the key activities for the sector: training," said Iani. "The commencement of the courses is the answer to a strong demand by workers in the Algerian fishing sector who want to face globalisation with instruments adequate to the new challenges. With this project, we wish to support the development of the local economy and to transfer knowledge of methods and the most modern technologies to Algerian workers, improving their quality of life." According to Iani, the next step will be to add to the topics of training, assistance and services the determination to reaffirm the need to fight crime and protect resources through eco-friendly fishing. "Furthermore, we will establish good neighbour relations with Algeria to support dialogues on research and common management in the Mediterranean," the president of Lega Pesca concluded.

Training courses for Algerian fishers to begin

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The explosion of a handmade bomb in the south of the wilaya of Sidi Belabbès, in the commune of Edhaia, last weekend, led to the death of an Algerian army captain and the injury of a number of soldiers who were taken to the hospital to receive first aid. This explosion occurred when a group made up of army elements was carrying out an operation of sweeping and surveillance of the area.

Overnight on Wednesday to Thursday a terrorist group killed two people by slaying them in the area known as “Ouadi Kellal” 4km in the west of Tipaza, the bodies of the victims were discovered not far from Douar “Baiou”, in a region of forest.

Well informed sources have indicated to El Khabar that one of the two victims was a Customs officer for Tipaza, 35 years old, who was accompanied by a brother of a terrorist, they have been found moved away a little and they would have been victims of a group made up of remnants activated under the banner of the Salafiste Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), who have made forest areas between the wilayas of Tipaza, Chlef and Ain Defla an axial to execute their operations aiming at attacking citizens and security forces.

The same sources have affirmed that before the two victims were attacked they were accompanied by a third person who was not found which has led to speculation that the killings might be some sort of 'settlement of accounts'.

Soldier and two civilians killed

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Algiers - Three people have been killed in attacks blamed on armed Islamic radicals in Algeria, reported the country's newspapers on Saturday.

A customs official and a civilian were beheaded in Gouraya, in the Tipaza region, on Wednesday.

On the same day, an army captain was killed by a bomb explosion during an operation to flush out Islamists near Sidi Bel Abbes, 370km further west.

The killings are blamed on the rebel Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), said to be linked to al-Qaeda.

Ten people, including four members of the Algerian security forces, have been killed since the beginning of June, according to official reports.

At least 54, all but nine of them rebels, were reported killed last month.

2 people found beheaded in Algeria

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The minister of Higher Education is expected to announce this week the extension of the college year, which was to take end on 4 July, to the third week of next month. “The minister has no choice but to take such a step”, said a source. The strike, which includes 19 university institutes, is starting today its sixth week and has prevented 200,000 students from taking their exams, according to the figures of the teacher strikers.

The same source said the minister of Higher Education, Rachid Haraoubia, would announce before the end of the week his decision about the extension of the college year because of the insistence of the professors to carry on the strike. Although he refused, on several occasions, to recognize the open strike was a success, the minister will find himself compelled to deal with the movement, which has paralysed university nationwide, through a decision making it possible to prevent the college year being declared “white year”, especially as the teacher strikers were, in spite of the ministry’s threats, successful to paralyse 19 university institutes.

The representative of the Higher Education Teachers’ Council (CNES) said more than 200 thousands students did not take their exams, and this is the aim of the open strike, he adds.

The representative pointed out that the minister’s decision in relation the extension of the college year will generate several problems, since Haraoubia refuses to recognize as a success the strike which is starting its sixth week. The Higher Education minister would then have to determine which universities would be affected by the extension decision. Such a step would without doubt confirm the reality of the success of the protest movement, the CNES source added, would show that not three or four university institutes only were involved in the open strike as the minister said on several occasions.

Higher Education minister extends college year

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High Council of Magistracy meets: 52 judges prosecuted and 21 disciplinary cases

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Algiers, June 17, (BNA) Algerian President, Abdulaziz Bouteflika, received here on Saturday, Mansoor Khalid, the Personal Advisor and Envoy of the Sudanese President, Omar Al Bashir.

Upon arrival to Algiers on Friday, the Sudanese official who was carrying a message to Bouteflika, stated that his visit came within the framework of reinforcement of bilateral relations mainly in political and economic domains and other fields.

Bouteflika receives Sudanese envoy

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The delegated minister in charge of the Rural Development, Rachid Benaissa, has revealed that 1600 projects of development in rural areas were recorded, 1200 are under achievement, and Mr. Rachid Benaissa has indicated that the absence of communication and centralization are among the problems which the sector is facing......

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