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    September 30, 2008 -- The European Union is set to make the first payment to Mauritania for a fishing deal delayed by the August 6th military coup, EU Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg announced at a press conference on Monday (September 29th). "We have received a letter from the Mauritanian government ... confirming they would strictly observe the terms of the fisheries partnership agreement which was concluded just a few days before the coup," Reuters quoted Borg as saying. The EU has to pay 86 million euros for the right to fish in Mauritanian waters for the first year, and between 70 and 76 million euros for each of the next three years. Also on Monday, the UAE Red Crescent Authority delivered 35 tonnes of rice, flour, oil, sugar, dates and children's food to Nouakchott to help needy families on the eve of Eid Al Fitr, Gulf press reported.

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    Mardi 30 Septembre 2008 -- Les mesures sécuritaires exceptionnelles de vigueur durant tout le mois sacré seront de mise durant les jours de fête avec la prise, à titre préventif, de certaines précautions autour des lieux de prière et des cimetières. Pendant le Ramadhan et l’Aïd, des agencements sécuritaires de circonstance sont arrêtés, compte tenu de la circulation routière qui double et parfois triple — surtout le soir — des veillées, visites familiales, soirées artistiques… affirme notre source qui ajoute que globalement, ce renforcement des effectifs et la mobilisation des moyens ne sont pas conjoncturels. Selon lui, depuis particulièrement la survenue des attentats kamikazes, la capitale a été mise sous étroite surveillance. Les édifices étatiques et les représentations diplomatiques bénéficient depuis d’une protection renforcée. Quant aux barrages et patrouilles mobiles, la plupart disposent désormais d’un matériel de détection d’explosifs et peuvent improviser des barrages en dehors des endroits habituels, les services de sécurité ayant constaté que les explosifs utilisés dans les dernières opérations suicide n’étaient pas importés et provenaient des quantités déjà disponibles dans le pays dans les carrières d’agrégats ou autres. Les routes menant à Alger sont passées également au peigne fin par des hélicoptères dotés de matériels de surveillance au sol, qui font des rondes continues.

    À cela s’ajoute l’installation récente d’un système informatique relié à la base de données d’Interpol au niveau de l’aéroport et port d’Alger par la Direction de la Sûreté nationale. Les agents de Police des frontières et de l’immigration pourront, grâce à ce matériel, détecter instantanément les personnes recherchées, les faux documents et les véhicules volés. La police aéroportuaire d’Alger est maintenant en mesure de vérifier, systématiquement, les passeports des voyageurs et de les comparer à la base de données d’Interpol des documents de voyage volés ou perdus, qui contient, à présent, environ 15 millions de documents d’identité perdus. Ces vérifications sont rendues possibles via la base de données mobile du réseau Interpol (Mind), une technologie offrant un accès off line aux bases de données d’Interpol. Bien entendu, d’autres dispositions sécuritaires moins visibles et plus confidentielles sont opérationnelles, tandis que d’autres sont en voie de concrétisation, à l’instar de l’installation de caméras de surveillance au niveau de tous les sites sensibles qui seront reliées à la salle de trafic de la sûreté de wilaya. Une opération qui devra être généralisée à l’ensemble du pays dans les mois à venir.

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    September 30, 2008 -- As Algeria prepares to celebrate Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday (October 1st), local and international press are commending security officers for the reduced bloodshed during the Holy Month of Ramadan. Attacks against police, army and civil guards - including the suicide bombing in Dellys on Sunday - left nine people dead, compared to sixty during the same period last year, L'Expression noted. The government has deployed additional security forces to major cities, set up roadblocks to check cars for bombs and initiated military combing operations in the restive Kabylie region. Border and airport security are also able to quickly identify wanted criminals or terrorists, thanks to technical links with Interpol, Liberté reported.

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    Mardi 30 Septembre 2008 -- L'organisation de la Ligue arabe prendra part à la réunion ministérielle arabo-turque, prévue le 11 octobre à Istanbul, en vue du lancement du forum de coopération arabo-turc. Cette rencontre réunira le ministre turc des Affaires étrangères avec ses homologues de la troïka arabe qui regroupe l'Arabie Saoudite, l'Algérie et Djibouti sous la présidence de la Syrie en tant que présidente en exercice du sommet arabe avec la participation du SG de la Ligue arabe, Amr Moussa.

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    PARIS, October 1, 2008 (AFP) — Four young Muslim men went on trial in Paris on Wednesday accused of operating an extremist network that planned attacks in Europe and sent volunteers from France to fight in Iraq.

    French authorities allege that the arrests of the four - three Moroccans and a Frenchman of Algerian origin aged between 23 and 38 - allowed officers to thwart several potential terror attacks in Europe and North Africa.

    The suspects - the Moroccans Hamid Bach, Yousef Bousag, Reda Barazzouk and French citizen Amine Liassine - were arrested between June 2005 and January 2006 in the southern city of Montpellier.

    Investigators believe that Bach travelled to Damascus in Syria with a friend from Montpellier in mid-2004. The friend continued to Iraq to join the then growing insurgency against US and Iraqi forces and was killed in action.

    Bach, then aged 34, returned to France on a mission to plan attacks in Europe and North Africa, prosecutors allege.

    Police say they seized a large amount of evidence at Bach's Montpellier address to back up this charge, including documents and chemicals used in the manufacture of explosives.

    Bousag and Barazzouk, who were studying electronics and telecommunications at the time of their arrests, are accused of taking part in the planning by building bomb detonators and remote control devices.

    Along with Bach, Liassine is regarded as the ideological motor behind the group. The pair are alleged to have confessed to travelling to London to meet members of the radical Islamist underground.

    The alleged Montpellier cell was rounded up after a similar operation in Paris led to seven young Muslim men being jailed this year after they were convicted of running a network in the city between 2004 and 2006.

    Prosecutors said leads from that case led to the Montpellier suspects.

    The four are charged with "membership of a criminal organisation". The trial is expected to end on October 9.

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    NOUAKCHOTT, October 1, 2008 -- The prime minister appointed by Mauritania's military junta which seized power in August announced Tuesday that the government is to ban all protests in the country.

    In an interview with French RFI radio station the prime minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Leghdaf was asked about a planned anti-coup demonstration next Sunday.

    "I think that since May we have done nothing else than protest in this country, we are going to limit that, actually we're going to ban all demonstrations from all sides," he said.

    "There is also a large number of people who want to show their support for the government and the State Council (the junta leadership) and there are protests from the other side... what we need now is calm," he said.

    Ould Mohamed Leghdaf, a former Mauritanian diplomat in Brussels, was named prime minister on August 14.

    He was appointed by the military junta led by general Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz which ousted Mauritania's first democratically elected president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

    The coup on August 6 was widely condemned and the international community including the European Union, the United States and the African Union continue to call for a return to constitutional order in Mauritania.

    The junta has promised to hold new elections soon but no date has been set.

    The new military leadership has been invited to Brussels by the European Union for consultations and an assessment of the situation in the West African nation following the coup. According to the prime minister his trip to the EU was planned for between October 10-15.

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    Mercredi 1 Octobre 2008 -- Plus de 25.500 hectares de forêts et maquis ont été ravagés par des incendies en Algérie entre juin et septembre, soit 20.000 de moins que l'année précédente, a indiqué mardi la Direction générale des forêts (DGF) dans un communiqué. Entre le 1er juin et le 26 septembre, 2.405 foyers soit une moyenne de vingt par jour, ont parcouru une superficie totale de 25.517 ha dont 10.566 de forêts, a précisé la DGF. Durant la même période en 2007, 2.015 foyers avaient incendié 47.936 ha, dont 23.525 en forêts. Le dispositif de prévention et de lutte mis en place depuis le 1er juin sera maintenu jusqu'à la fin de la campagne, prévue le 31 octobre 2008, ajoute la DGF.

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