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Trans-Sahara Pipeline to Send Gas to EuropeThree African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. (AllAfrica)
Algeria to host mega pan-African festival
More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.
(Topix.net)Minister in Algiers' Pan-African Culture Festival
Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, travels to Algiers City, Algeria, leading a delegation from the sector to participate in the Pan-African Culture Festival. (AllAfrica)
Algeria Set For Second Pan-African Cultural Festival After Four Decades
All set for Pan-African Festival By Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Zimbabwean artists will join a host of others from the continent at the second Pan-African Festival of Algiers from July 5 to 20.
(Topix.net)Algiers Attack on U.N. Signals Wider Threat
The twin blasts that caused such devastation in Algeria this week were a grim announcement that an Islamic group once thought to have been defeated is back and is now poised to extend its murderous tactics throughout North Africa and possibly to Europe.
(Topix.net)Govt, Algeria to Sign Gas Pipeline Deal
An agreement to build a gas pipeline from Nigeria across the Sahara Desert to Algeria will be signed next week in Abuja, Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Monday. (AllAfrica)
Nigeria, Algeria to Build Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline
An agreement between the governments of Nigeria and Algeria to build a trans-Saharan gas pipeline is expected to be signed in Abuja next week, reports Vanguard. (AllAfrica)
Poyry Awarded Rubber Tube Dam Assignment in Algeria
The project covers derivation of the Sebgag River in the province of Laghouat and is built for the National Irrigation and Drainage Authority .
(Topix.net)More muddle than Medea
It's a crash, bang, wallop of a movie with nothing to suggest anything but technical skill has gone into it Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Restaurants Rachel Cooke To eat at Palm is to experience time travel Palm Henry Hitchings The story is paper-thin, and the acting a little uneven but the vocal performances make the production fly Been So ...
(Topix.net)We'll Support Country - Algerian Envoy
AFRICAN countries should share experiences and help solve problems faced by member states, if the continent is to progress and claim its rightful position on the globe, Algerian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Ali Mokrani has said. (AllAfrica)
Fleeing conflict from their country, Somalis create largest refugee camp in world
The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
(Topix.net)Musical celebration on Beirut's streets for the shortest night of the year
BEIRUT: Like the summer solstice that it marks, Fete de la Musique, the night-long musical celebration of the year's briefest night, returns to Beirut streets this Sunday for its ninth round of Franco-Arab vibrations.
(Topix.net)'Time to end the violence'
By Lamine Chikhi Algiers - Support is building among Algeria's ruling elite for a plan to offer a new amnesty to al-Qaeda militants if they abandon violence that in the past few weeks has killed tens of people including a British hostage.
(Topix.net)A Successful Election in Morocco
While the world's attention is focused on the fallout from Iran's election, an election in another Muslim country gave reason for hope: A Muslim Nation's Successful Election .
(Topix.net)Country to Host 2nd Pan-African Cultural Festival
One of the best kept secrets on the African continent this year is the 2nd Pan-African Cultural Festival of Algiers, taking place in the north African country 40 years after it hosted the first one. (AllAfrica)
Obama Speech Omits Women And Secularists
Following Barack Obama's 4 June speech in Cairo, Algerian secularist Marieme Helie Lucas doesn't think the president's discourse is the new voice of peace. (AllAfrica)
SNC-Lavalin awarded contract for major Algerian gas processing complex
MONTREAL, June 16, 2009 /CNW Telbec/ - SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an engineering procurement and construction contract by Sonatrach, Algeria's national oil company to design and build natural gas process facilities in the Sahara desert approximately 1200 km to the south east of Algiers.
(Topix.net)At least 18 killed in Algeria ambush: sources
Islamist rebels ambushed a military convoy in Algeria and killed at least 18 police, local sources told AFP on Thursday.
(Topix.net)Petroceltic finds Algerian gas deposits
Tuesday, June 16 12:02:25 Irish prospector, Petroceltic, today said it has completed drilling on its Algerian INE-2 well and found gas-bearing deposits.
(Topix.net)SNC-Lavalin wins US$1.1 billion contract to build Algerian natural gas facility
Engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a US$1.1-billion contract to build a natural gas processing facility for Algeria's national oil company.
(Topix.net)Constantine: 'Far-right' Hutchison chickens out of honest debate
If there was any doubt that Susan Hutchison is the front runner in the King County Executive's race Dow Constantine removed it Wednesday.
(Topix.net)INTERVIEW / Talking to the shah of Oran: The Algerian rai star Khaled ...
The last time I saw Khaled, three years ago, he was ending his highly successful British debut concert at the Empire Leicester Square, grinning his great, fun-packed grin as a succession of young London Algerians clambered on to the stage and ran to be photographed draping their belts or scarves around his neck or clutching him around the ...
(Topix.net)The Democratic Popular Kingdom of Algeria
The Democratic Popular Kingdom of Algeria On the announcement that Said Bouteflika, brother of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is launching a political party.
(Topix.net)Obama wants "immediate" Mideast talks - Mitchell
U.S. President Barack Obama wants "immediate" talks between the Palestinians and Israel to forge a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement, U.S. envoy George Mitchell said on Monday.
(Topix.net)Diplomacy with a jazzy beat
Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a better look at the band.
(Topix.net)Profile: Al-Qaeda in North Africa
Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, to give its full name in English, has its roots in the bitter Algerian civil war of the early 1990s, but has since evolved to take on a more modern Islamist agenda.
(Topix.net)US Jazz rocks hearts in Algeria
Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a better look at the band.
(Topix.net)Treading a mined path to freedom
TINDOUF, Algeria // Hot with anger and clutching a stone, Brahim Labid abandoned caution and charged straight into a minefield towards the defences of the Moroccan army.
(Topix.net)Ibn Khaldun: The master sociologist in retrospect
S. Aminul Islam Ibn Khaldun, who has been described as one of the finest historians of civilizations and the real father of sociology, was born on May 27, 1332, in Tunis.
(Topix.net)Top Mexican cartel suspect arrested
A top drug cartel suspect with a $1 million reward on his head has been captured by Mexican soldiers, federal authorities said.
(Topix.net)Solo Exhibition for Philippe Perreno at Kunsthalle Zurich
Philippe Parreno, Marquee, 2007. Plexiglas, Neons, Light Bulbs, 140 x 100 x 65 cm.
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