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Suicide Attack Hits Police Station in Eastern Algeria

Dozens were injured including three policemen during a suicide attack using an explosive belt against a police station in the eastern Algerian city of Constantine. The explosive belt was detonated when a policeman opened fire on the terrorist outside the police station. “A policeman who was in front of the police station located in a […]

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Dim Prospects for Algeria’s Gas Exports

Algeria’s gas production and export capacity is facing dim prospects with estimates the North African country to be a net gas importer of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in two decades, warned the former Algerian energy minister Nordine Ait-Laoussine. Ait-Laoussine, who was speaking to Interfax Natural Gas Daily, said that politics and bureaucracy are contributing to […]

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Algeria: Ain Amenas ready for action

Work will soon begin on the Ain Amenas facility which came under a fatal terrorist attack and hostage situation last month. The Algerian gas complex which is jointly managed by British petroleum (BP), Algeria’s Sonatrach and Norway’s Statoil might partially begin operations next week according to an official from sonatrach. Abdelhamid Zerguine, the head of […]