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North African cinema goes to Cannes
16/05/2012 - World news explained

North African cinema goes to Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival, a major date in the international and French film industry calendar, is due to open this evening in the south of France.

Algeria's president Abdelaziz Bouteflika casts his ballot at a polling station in Algiers, 10 May, 2012
12/05/2012 - Algeria

Bouteflika's ruling National Liberation Front wins Algeria election

Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front has won legislative elections in a blow for the Islamists who were hoping to ride on the Arab Spring's tide of democratic change.

 

10/05/2012 - Algeria

Low turnout feared in Algerian general election

Algeria’s state-run television showed crowds rushing to vote in as polls opened Thursday’s general election but commentators predict a high abstention rate, perhaps even higher than ...

10/05/2012

African press review 10 May 2012

Algerians find their election complicated but not that interesting. Kenyans worry that there may be violence when they  go to the polls. Malema is out but does Maleamaism live on?

10/05/2012

French press review 10 May 2012

How many Algerians will bother to vote?

04/05/2012 - France

Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist jailed for terror plot

A Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist has been jailed for plotting terror attacks in France.

13/04/2012

African press review 13 April 2012

Friday’s review of the African press focuses on Algeria where there are continuing reactions to the death of Algeria’s first post-independence president Ahmed Ben Bella.

12/04/2012

French press review 12 April 2012

There's a bizarre contradiction on the front pages of this morning's French papers.

12/04/2012 - Algeria

Algeria declares eight days of mourning for independence leader Ben Bella

Algerian President Abdelaziz Boutflika has declared eight days of mourning for Ahmed Ben Bella, the revolutionary who became Algeria's first president who died in Algiers Wednesday at the age of ...

08/04/2012 - Mali - Algeria

Kidnapped Algerian diplomats freed in north Mali, report

The seven Algerian diplomats kidnapped in northern Mali have been freed, according to the Algiers-based El Watan newspaper.

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