Algeria

Italy Resorts to Algeria Natural Gas to Face Freezing Wave Hitting Europe

9 Feb 2012

Italy is planning increasing its natural gas imports from Algeria to meet the soaring local need provoked by the freezing wave sweeping on Europe, Italy Minister of Economy Development and Facilities, Corrado Passera, said on Monday.

Algerian Islamist warns against electoral fraud

7 Feb 2012

Algeria will witness a "social explosion" if the May legislative election is marred by fraud, an Islamist leader warned Tuesday.

Prohibition Takes Hold in Algeria, But Liquor Continues to Flow

7 Feb 2012

An Islamist movement in Algeria has lead to the shuttering of the country's oldest bars, the rise of fly-by-night networks of suppliers, and secret sales of liquor in people's homes--all signs that the country is in the middle of its own prohibition era.The Guardian's article today on Algeria's current situation isn't the stuff of Nucky Thompson and the gang of HBO's Boardwalk Empire (or that ...