Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 4/7/2003
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of April 7, 2003
- Morocco calls U.N. to move to free 1,160 Moroccans captive in Algeria
Morocco on Wednesday called on the United Nations Human Rights Commission to join ongoing international efforts to free 1,160 Moroccan nationals detained by the Polisario in south-western Algeria. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 4/10/2003 - Algerian, German ministers of interior meet in Berlin
The German minister of the interior Oto Shelly, who was in a short visit to Algeria discussed with his Algerian counterpart Nour Eddine Yazid Zarhouni means of developing cooperation between the two countries as well as the fate of the missing western tourists in the Algerian desert. Algeria-Germany, Local, 4/10/2003 - Algeria: 13 persons killed in al-Shalf operation
The Algerian press has announced that 11 armed Islamists and two Algerian military men were killed during the past days and other two soldiers were wounded in a mopping up operation carried out by the army in al-Shalf area ( 200 Km to the west of the Algerian Capital). Algeria, Local, 4/9/2003 - Some 29 European tourists are missing in the Algerian desert Algeria, Local, 4/8/2003
- World organization against torture urges Polisario to immediately free moroccan pows
The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)(main international NGO against torture) urged in Geneva on Thursday the Polisario (Algeria-backed secessionist group) to immediately free all Moroccan POWs it is still detaining in Tindouf camps (southwestern Algeria). Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 4/7/2003