ALGERIA-FRANCE-KIDNAPPING-MEMORIAL

Algerian troops conduct a search operation on October 10, 2014, near the village of Ait Ouabane, 80 kilometres south of Tizi Ouza, for the body of 55-year old French tourist and moutain-guide Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped on September 21 while hiking in Algeria's Djurdjura National Park, and beheaded three days later by a group linked to Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Algeria is continuing to devote significant resources in Kabylia to find the body of Gourdel Herve and locate his killers, security sources told AFP on October 9. AFP PHOTO / FAROUK BATICHE