Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 2/21/2005
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of February 21, 2005
- Butaflika: Algeria losses since 1992: 150,000 killing, $ 30 billion
The Algerian president Abdul Aziz Butaflika announced on Wednesday that the acts of violence attributed to armed Islamists resulted since 1992 on the killing of 150,000 persons and financial losses estimated at $ 30 billion. Algeria, Politics, 2/25/2005 - NGO inquires on situation of former detainees in Southern Algeria
Members of a London-based NGO inquired, in Laayoune Monday, about the situation of former detainees that were held by the Polisario separatists. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 2/23/2005 - four soldiers killed in an ambush to the east of Algiers
Four Algerian soldiers were killed in an ambush implanted by gunmen suspected to be members of al-Salafeyah Group For Call suspected to be linked to al-Qaida organization. Algeria, Local, 2/22/2005 - Rabat, Algiers work for reinforcing mutual trust, Algerian FM
Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, who took part Thursday in the meeting of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)'s foreign ministers, stated that Morocco and Algeria are working for the reinforcement of mutual trust. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 2/21/2005