Extractions: Press Release: Transparency International and the Algerian Association against Corruption (AACC) call on Algerian government to put a stop to press freedom violations in Algeria Algeria must sign and ratify the new African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption as soon as possible, and allow the media to operate freely Algiers / Berlin, 17 September 2003 The Algerian government has been relentlessly harassing the main Algerian dailies in recent weeks, namely El Khabar L'Expression Le Matin and . Various newspapers have been momentarily suspended by the authorities while certain journalists have fallen victim to some rough questioning, undergone unacceptable police harassment and seen their civil rights violated. This assault on the press is not an isolated act; on 6 August 2003 the Algerian government adopted a decree, with the aim of controlling the import of books and reintroducing censorship. Transparency International (TI), the leading global anti-corruption NGO, is gravely concerned by this violation of fundamental human and civic rights, coming as it does after the publication in these same newspapers of corruption scandals where senior regime officials were involved. The officials concerned have neither commented on nor denied the accusations. Clearly, newspaper editors and journalists are being impeded from doing their job of informing the public and monitoring state institutions. Against this backdrop it is impossible not to remember the case of the late
MSN Encarta - Algeria Although the algerian government routinely blamed violence on Islamist guerrillas, human rights organizations began to question whether the government was http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554128_8/Algeria.html
FOREIGN AFFAIRS ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN ALGERIA The algerian government has clearly demonstrated its commitment to peace and reconciliation. Elections on two tiers of government were held during 1997, http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1998/98129_0x6859810598.htm
[ The Commission On Human Rights Must Act Now - WWW.FIDH.ORG ] Even this, however, the algerian government has adamantly rebuffed. Two Algerian torturers indicted by French justice a hope for the victims in the http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=1192
Extractions: Contemporary Africa Database ::: People Home About Contact CAD Help ... Lists People: A B C D ... Z Former Algerian Government Minister Family Name: Ounissi Given Name: Z'hour Gender: Female Country: Algeria Positions listed are those which are held currently or have been held in the past. Dates are given wherever possible. Where there are no dates, positions are ordered alphabetically. National Governance Ministers in Government
Extractions: Contemporary Africa Database ::: People Home About Contact CAD Help ... Lists People: A B C D ... Z B - Bairu Bajo - Bangui Bangura - Batshika Batte Junior - Ben Lakhdar ... Buthelezi - Bylex Previous page: Biyidi - Bot Next page: Botchwey, Kwesi Bote, Takaitei Botha, Andries Botha, Hardy Botha, Lien Botha, Martin Botha, Naas Botha, Ntombazana Gertrude Winifred Botha, Pieter Willem (PW) Botha, Roelof F. (Pik) Botha, Theunis Roux Botha, W.P.B. Botha, Wim Botman, Russel Botsio, Kojo Bouabdellah, Zoulikha Bouabid, Maati Bouah-Kamon, Claude Stanislas
The Counter-Terrorism Page In addition, the algerian government has accused Iran and Sudan of supporting Algerian extremists in years past. To search The CounterTerrorism Page for http://www.terrorism.net/group31.html
Extractions: A B C D ... ALL Description: The Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) splinter faction that began in 1996 has eclipsed the GIA since approximately 1998, and currently is assessed to be the most effective remaining armed group inside Algeria. In contrast to the GIA, the GSPC has gained popular support through its pledge to avoid civilian attacks inside Algeria (although, in fact, civilians have been attacked). Its adherents abroad appear to have largely co-opted the external networks of the GIA, active particularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East Activities: The GSPC continues to conduct operations aimed at government and military targets, primarily in rural areas. Such operations include false roadblocks and attacks against convoys transporting military, police, or other government personnel. According to press reporting, some GSPC members in Europe maintain contacts with other North African extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida, a number of whom were implicated in terrorist plots during 2001.
Afrol New: Algeria And US Discussing Terrorism And Sahara 19.06.2001 algerian government prohibits mass demonstrations According to the same algerian government source, Algeria thus support the UN project http://www.afrol.com/News2001/alg005_terror_wsa.htm
Extractions: afrol News, 8 November - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on his visit to the United States has met with President George Bush and other US officials to review US-Algerian relations on to key issues - the fight against terrorism and the Western Sahara conflict. In the fight against Muslim fundamentalists, the US could not get a better ally than the Algerian government, with its years of experience and its established intelligence. Algeria, on the other hand, is grateful for the renewed US and European interest in fighting terrorism, including the round up of Algerian oppositional groups abroad. Further, Algeria wants to sell its cooperation by achieving stronger support for the Sahrawi against Morocco and more US investment in the Algerian oil and gas sector. President Bouteflika, on his weeklong US tour, has met with US officials and managers in Washington, Philadelphia and the US oil capital Houston. On Monday, Bouteflika met with Bush in the White House.
Alg003 Algerian Government Prohibits Mass Demonstrations 19.06.2001 algerian government prohibits mass demonstrations » 04.05.2001 - Need to invesigate Algerian security forces » 24.04.2001 - Protests against http://www.afrol.com/News2001/alg003_prohibit_riot.htm
Extractions: afrol News, 19 June - Tension still is high in several zones of the Algerian Cabilia province, the region that has been marked by grave confrontations between the Berber people and local government over the last weeks. Central government has decreed the immediate cessation of all types of events. The Council of Ministers publicly lamented the last incidents of "sabotage and vandalism" against public and private property in a broadcasted message to the Algerian people. It however confirmed its firm determination to react forcefully against any further incidents of this character. Despite of the call for tranquillity made by the government, tension kept high in the Cabilia province and threatens to extend to the entire country, according to press reports.
SOS Children: Child Sponsorship Charity This offer was most warmly accepted by the algerian government. By order of the algerian government all children had to leave the SOS Children s Village http://archive.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sponsor-child/algeria_select_a_villag
Extractions: Capital: Algiers Area: 2,381,741 km² Population: 31 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Berbers, Arabs Official language(s): Arabic Religion(s): Islam Currency: 1 Algerian dinar = 100 centimes... Tunisia - Select a village Capital: Tunis Area: 163,610 km² Population: 9.5 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Arabs (98%), Europeans (1%), After the terrible earthquake in El Asnam (Algeria) in 1980, SOS Kinderdorf International offered the construction of an SOS Children's Village to the Algerian government in order to provide immediate help for the victims of the catastrophe. This offer was most warmly accepted by the Algerian government. In December 1980, already, the construction of the foundations of the new SOS Children's Village was started on a piece of land which was offered by the government. The construction works were finished in autumn 1981 and the family houses ready for the children to move in.
Extractions: lgerias current financial health, thanks to high world energy prices in 2000 and 2001, is belied by its limited success in structural reform, crucially needed to diversify the economy and relieve its dependence on hydrocarbon exports. Afraid that the social cost of the tough economic changes to come will generate increasing unrest, 2002 will see the government attempt to leverage its strong financial position, initiating one of the biggest economic stimulation packages in its history. While the falling price of oil bodes ill for the governments budget deficit, the authorities are hoping that short-term growth will foster a more favorable climate for deeper structural reform. cynic would argue that there is only one important question when discussing the Algerian economy: the price of oil. The volatile commodity is the inescapable constant for its economy and it is on this one variable that Algerias macro-economic status depends.
RADIO ISLAM.Who's Behind Killings In Algeria? By Desert Man. And why the algerian government Insists to oppose any independent Don t forget that many of those being (or accused by algerian government and western http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/debate/algeri1.htm
Extractions: HOME DEBATE. DEBATE DEBATE. Who's behind killings in Algeria? By Desert Man People seem to be ignoring or being unaware of the big picture behind what's going on in North Africa. No one ask who's gaining of the killings in Algeria? And why the Algerian government Insists to oppose any independent investigation, as FIS proposed for some months ago. The on-going violence is certainly not in the interest of the islamist and is only aimed to destroy their image, both nationally and internationally, and give the illegimate Algerian junta sympathy in international opinion. And why no attention is directed toward the role of the security forces, the government and the role of its western supporters? There's a ruthless competition going on between Anglophile and the francophile camps of the 'civilized' world for absolute domination of the African continent. US is looking for a proamerican poitical shift in the culturally and politically French dominated Algeria. This rivality is nothing new. 1994, the french-backed huttus massacred tutzies in Ruwanda and in 1996 the US backed tutzies massacred huttus as part of the anglo-american take-over of the french dominated Zaire. One million 'niggeres' killed here and there, one million niggers more or less, who cares. It's just statistics. Now the same tragedy is happeing to the Algerians, now much more near european borders. Now some arabs more or less... And Islam get the credit for the extremely Jaheliat behaviors! When married women get raped by savages the western media explain it with temporary marriage! I hope the racist blood-thirsty Europe just enjoy it. US government is surprisingly very silent, as in the case of drug-dealer Talibans abusing every human rights of innocent Afghans. Neither USA nor France want under any conditions see emergence of a free and independent Algeria. They have during 90-is tried any means to stop islamists to peacefully take-over the power.
CPJ Protests algerian government Places Restrictions on the Foreign Media The algerian government has asserted that security escorts for foreign journalists are http://www.cpj.org/protests/99ltrs/Algeria09April99.html
Extractions: On the occasion of Algeria's upcoming presidential election next week, as the international media prepare to cover events inside the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), writes to express deep concern about ongoing government restrictions on foreign journalists who report from Algeria. For several years, CPJ has documented continued government strictures on the freedom of movement of foreign reporters inside Algeria. Algerian authorities have systematically enforced a policy of providing mandatory armed government escorts for foreign reporters-a policy which has severely curtailed the ability of journalists to carry out their work. Reporters have consistently noted that the presence of escorts, who accompany reporters to all destinations outside of their hotels, prevents them from conducting serious investigative journalism in Algeria, including carrying out sensitive interviews and meeting with opposition figures. CPJ views such limitations on the press as clear infringements on the universally accepted right of journalists to "seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers," as guaranteed by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Middle East And North Africa Cases 2004 AlJazeera has been critical of the algerian government. In a recent episode of the program The Opposite Direction, a former Algerian diplomat who now http://www.cpj.org/cases04/mideast_cases04/algeria.html
Extractions: According to Razzouj, the case against Benchicou was launched in August 2003 when he was returning to Algeria from France. Authorities in the airport questioned Benchicou about credit notes, which are similar to certified bank checks of Algerian dinars issued by an Algerian bank, that were in his possession.
Shout! - Algeria: The Arab-Berber Conflict Today The algerian government showed its insecurity by cancelling the lecture, As if to rub salt into an open wound, the algerian government passed a law http://www.shoutmonthly.com/mena/arabberber.html
Extractions: le Pouvoir Today, in the midst of a Berber cultural revival, many Kabyle Berber leaders represent the Arabs as the latest in a series of colonizers (there are smaller groups of Algerian Berbers in the Aures mountains and the Ouarseni Massif, but the Kabylians are the most politically active). It is a mistake to regard Berbers as an excluded minority, however. Berbers can be found in the highest levels of Algerian military, political, business and intellectual circles. hadiths (traditions) were fabricated which described the conversion of the Berbers by the Prophet Muhammad himself well before the Arab conquest. The Moroccan Bargawatiyya movement translated the Koran into Berber in the 10th century, but Sunni Muslim reformists destroyed their kingdom and burnt the offensive Berber Koran. The French, who conquered Kabylia in 1857, attempted to divide the Berbers from their Arab neighbours. The use of Berber customary law (
EFGP : Archive The policy of the algerian government to arm the civils and encourage the question the governments about their policy regarding Algeria and their http://www.europeangreens.org/info/archive/helsinki10.html
Extractions: return to table : Archive EFGP 6th council meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 27-29 March 1998 Since the cancellation of the elections in 1992, more than 80.000 Algerians have been killed in a mercyless conflict between the armed forces and 'islamist' armed groups, whose methods have reached unprecedented levels of cruelty. Since October 1997 only, about 2000 men, women and children have been killed, tortured or disappeared... The civilian population has been trapped more and more in a spiral of violence, having nowhere to seek security, caught between the threats of the 'islamist' groups and those of the armed forces. As was shown during the recent massacres, the Algerian security forces have not been able to guarantee the security of the population. The policy of the Algerian government to arm the civils and encourage the formation of militias has not reduced the level of violence, on the contrary, it has further drawn the civilian population into the conflict. The international community has been so far unable or unwilling to take and implement any measures to find solutions to this tragedy, beyond pale condemnations of the violence and calls for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
Algeria: Record Low Election Turnout As Berbers Organise Boycott The algerian government has actively pursued a campaign against armed Islamic militants since the general election of 1991. When the FIS (Islamic Salvation http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/alge-j12.shtml
Extractions: 12 June 2002 Use this version to print Send this link by email Email the author The combined seats in the assembly taken by the FLN and the Democratic National Rally (RND), another party of the military establishment, have increased since the 1997 elections, a result that is likely to be rigged. Of the parties that stood in the election, the Islamist groups, the Movement for Society and Peace (MSP), the Ennahda (renaissance) Movement (EM) and the Movement for National Reform (MRN) had been expected to win a large part of the vote between them, if not a majority. agent provocateurs to whip up anti-Berber racism. The low election turnout was not only due to the Kabylie boycott, but the result of widespread disaffection throughout the country. Most Algerians regarded the election as a cosmetic affair, with the real power in the country in the hands of the military elite. Another factor in the stay-away in some parts of Algeria was the ongoing terrorist campaign of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which killed 23 people just hours before the polls opened, sowing fear in the surrounding regions. See Also:
UNITED NATIONS Press Release Xxxxxxxxxx HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE The algerian government was asked if it was ready to withdraw its reservations on Committee experts said the algerian government should not undermine or http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/1A76E5B5FCE3991680256649002F7BBB?op
Extractions: H. Osman Bencherif is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Algeria to the United States. For the last four years, Algeria has been in the forefront of the fight against Islamist (or fundamentalist) terrorism. Armed groups have sowed death and destruction, waging a war of terror that has affected Algerians from all walks of life. Violence has been directed not just against Algerian government personnel (judges, civil servants, police) but also against leading intellectuals, doctors, university professors, lawyers, veterans of the war of independence, singers, artists, and factory workers. A leading militant group threatens not just to kill the police and the soldiers but also "every mother, sister or daughter" of theirs. This contest between an underground Islamic movement and government forces is but one battle in a very large war taking place in many parts of the Muslim world, a confrontation between Western-style democracy and a totalitarian use of Islamic law (the Shari`a). It is shaping into a clash between two opposite visions of society, a conflict between two political world orders, an age-old battle for power over human lives the battle between the forces of freedom and tyranny, tolerance and repression, hope and despair, progress and regression, light and darkness. Americans have an important role to play in this crisis, which is fortunate, for events in Algeria can have a major impact on U.S. interests.
Extractions: Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as secretary general of the United Nations for five years, 1992-96. Born in Egypt in 1922, he was educated at the Universities of Cairo and Paris, and taught at Columbia University. After a career as a law professor (primarily at the University of Cairo) and a journalist (primarily at Al-Ahram al-Iqtisadi ), Dr. Boutros-Ghali served as Egypt's minister of state from 1977-91 and then as deputy prime minister. Dr. Boutros-Ghali has long been identified with the Arab-Israeli peace process. His political career began in November 1977 when he was appointed minister of state without portfolio just three weeks before Anwar as-Sadat made his dramatic visit to Jerusalem. And when, on the eve of that trip, the foreign minister Isma'il Fahmi resigned, Boutros-Ghali accompanied Anwar as-Sadat as acting foreign minister. He participated in the Camp David talks and the other negotiations that led to the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Daniel Pipes interviewed him in New York on May 30, 1997. THE PEACE PROCESS Middle East Quarterly : In 1975 you wrote an important article entitled "Palestine in the Year 2000" in which you examined the possibility of peace with Israel and proposed that the "State of the Hebrews" should become the Hong Kong of the Middle East: a demilitarized state subordinate to the wishes of its neighbors.