Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 6/30/2003
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of June 30, 2003
- US diplomat says Washington wants final settlement of sahara issue
US ambassador in Algiers, Janet Sanderson, said Washington wants a final settlement of the Sahara issue, a problem that has been negatively affecting relations between countries of the region for long years. US Supports Political Settlement to Sahara Issue, US Ambassador Algeria-USA, Politics, 7/5/2003 - Butaflika urges for the elimination of terrorism
The Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika announced that "terrorism is directly responsible for the crisis which hit the country as whole, and should be eliminated," while the US called on the Algerians to "look forward to the future" after the release of the two leaders of the Islamic Front for Salvation, Abbas Madanai and Ali Balhah. Algeria, Politics, 7/5/2003 - Madanai, Balhah released
The Algerian authorities yesterday released the last of the imprisoned leaders of the Islamic Front for Salvation ( al-Jabha al-Islameyah Le alinqaz ), Abbasi Madani and Ali Balhah, who completed a 12- year sentence imprisonment over "violating state security," following the abrogation of legislative elections in 1992, which the front was about to win at the time. Algeria, Politics, 7/3/2003 - Morocco creates committee to prevent plague creeping in from Algeria
The Moroccan health department announced this Wednesday it has set up a committee to prevent plague creeping into Morocco after an outbreak of the epidemic in Western Algeria. Morocco-Algeria, Local, 7/3/2003 - Amnesty International to move toward the liberalization of moroccan POWs in Algeria
Amnesty International (AI) will start on September 6 a train of actions to free the Moroccan POWs sequestered in Tindouf camps (southwestern Algeria), a representative of the organization announced here on Saturday at a forum part of the "Moroccan Sahara Week" that is organized in Brussels Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 7/1/2003 - Algeria: 17 killed in a military plane crash over houses
At least 17 persons were killed in an Algerian military transport US- made Hercules plane over a residential area to the south of the capital Algiers. Algeria, Local, 7/1/2003