Algerian siege leader threatened to blow up hostages
The gunman alleged to have been leading the Algerian hostage crisis threatened to blow up his captives if a rescue attempt was made.
View ArticleMilitants 'captured alive' at Algerian gas plant
Officials say the army has captured five militants involved in the attack on an Algerian gas plant.
View ArticleReports militants captured alive at Algerian gas field
Algerian security officials say the army has captured five militants involved in the attack on a gas complex in the Sahara desert.
View ArticlePM defends bloody end to gas plant siege
Algeria's prime minister has defended his army's bloody end to the four-day siege at the In Amenas gas plant.
View ArticleAlgerian PM defends bloody end to siege
Algeria's prime minister defends his army's bloody end to the four-day siege at the In Amenas gas plant.
View ArticleSenior Al Qaeda commander reportedly killed
Al Qaeda's top commander in Mali has reportedly been killed in fighting during the seven-week French-led intervention against Islamist insurgents.
View ArticleOne-eyed Al Qaeda commander Belmokhtar reportedly killed
The Chadian army says it has killed senior Al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed jihadist allegedly behind January's Algerian gas plant siege.
View ArticleUnemployment hits 16 per cent in Arab states
Unemployment in Arab countries rose to 16 per cent in 2012 following the revolts which erupted the previous year, Arab Labour Organisation chief Ahmed Mohamed Luqman announced on Sunday.
View ArticleThousands of migrants abandoned in Sahara desert
Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 African migrants in the Sahara Desert in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk.
View ArticleAlgerian protesters vent their anger against the government. Then they go...
As the weekly protest marches against government corruption wind down, the tidy revolutionaries track back along the route and scoop up water bottles, protest signs or anything else left behind.
View ArticleCCTV captured Zabaat catching the two-year-old
Syrian toddler Doha Muhammed was caught by 17-year-old Algerian immigrant Feuzi Zabaat after he noticed her about to fall from a second-story window in Istanbul.
View ArticleAt least 300,000 Africans expected to die in pandemic, UN agency says
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the UN Economic Commission for Africa says.
View ArticleHow has the world's poorest continent so far escaped a coronavirus explosion?
Coronavirus has been slow to spread in Africa, but as hot spots begin to blaze, experts fear the disease could become entrenched in some of the continent's most vulnerable nations for years to come.
View ArticleFrench army kills Al Qaeda North Africa chief Droukdel, captures IS group leader
The French military and allied forces kill Al Qaeda's North Africa chief Abdelmalek Droukdel and capture an Islamic State group leader during operations in northern Mali, France's Defence Minister says.
View Article'Godzilla dust cloud' prompts health warning for Caribbean residents
A choking blanket of dust making its way across the Caribbean from Africa is described as the "most significant event in the past 50 years".
View ArticleFrance returns trophy skulls of Algerian resistance fighters
The resistance fighters were decapitated by French colonial forces and their remains displayed in a museum for decades, but they will now be buried in their homeland as part of independence celebrations.
View Article'Significant threat to our country': Government tries to keep terrorist...
Abdul Nacer Benbrika's finished his 15-year prison sentence last month, though Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says he remains a "significant threat".
View ArticleTerrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika to stay in jail, despite finishing 15-year...
A convicted terrorist who once espoused the virtues of Osama Bin Laden will stay in an Australian prison after Victoria's Supreme Court deemed him too risky to release.
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