Tag: Algeria
Renard celebrates beating ‘best team in tournament’
Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard on Sunday hailed his side’s 3-1 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final win over a much-fancied…
AFCON 2015: We Won’t Underrate Ghana —Algeria Coach
Algeria’s tactician, Christian Gourcuff has declared that his team won’t underrate the Ghana’s Black Stars when both sides meet today…
Algeria traffic accident kills Nigeriens being repatriated
Nine illegal migrants from Niger were killed in a traffic accident in Algeria Sunday when their bus and a truck…
Algerian army kills four suspected militants
Algerian soldiers killed four gunmen during anti-militant operations, the defence ministry said Friday, a day after raiding the suspected hideout…
Algerian troops hunt for French hostage
Algerian troops scoured a mountainous eastern region Tuesday for a Frenchman kidnapped by militants linked to the Islamic State group…
Two Algerian diplomats freed after two years’ captivity in Mali
Two Algerian diplomats kidnapped in Mali in April 2012 by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO)…
Algeria’s Brahimi signs five-year Porto deal
Algerian international Yacine Brahimi has signed for five seasons with FC Porto from Spanish club Granada, the Portuguese top flight…
Bomb kills seven Algerian troops
A roadside bomb has killed three Algerian soldiers and four auxiliaries in the west of the North African country, the…
Algeria’s Coach Vahid Resigns
Algeria’s coach Vahid Halilhodzic has announced the end of his journey with the ‘Fennecs’ in a statement released by the…
Security tightened ahead of Algeria World Cup match
Authorities in France tightened security and appealed for calm on Monday ahead of a World Cup match between Germany and…
Halilhodzic slams reporters’ Ramadan questions
Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic on Sunday turned on reporters repeatedly asking whether his players are observing Ramadan on the eve…
Podolski ruled out of Algeria clash
Germany forward Lukas Podolski has been ruled out of Monday’s World Cup last 16 clash against Algeria in Porto Alegre…
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World Cup: Algeria hold Russia for historic feat
CURITIBA (AFP) – Algeria progressed to the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time in their history…
WORLD CUP: Algeria joins Nigeria in Group of 16
A 60th minute header by Islam Slimani gave Algeria the point they needed to reach the second round of the…
Belgium comeback to beat Algeria
Dark horses Belgium staged a late fightback to beat Algeria 2-1 and deny the Africans a first World Cup win…
Algeria: Wheelchair bound Bouteflika sworn-in for 4th term
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sworn in as Algeria’s president for a fourth term Monday, in a televised ceremony after his re-election…
11 soldiers killed, 14 wounded in Algeria attack
Eleven Algerian soldiers were killed and 14 wounded when they fell into an ambush in the restive Kabylie region east…
A lesson from Algiers: Stemming youth brain drain
ALGIERS(AFP) – They fled Algeria to escape the violence ravaging the country in the 1990s, but now more and more…
In Algeria, Bouteflika rallies voters, opponents smell fraud
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika urged Algerians to defy boycott calls and vote in Thursday’s election, as his rival Ali Benflis said…
Ailing Algerian leader eyes 4th term in office
.Bouteflika says he is hearkening to the people’s wish Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Saturday his ailing health does not…
Sectarian strife paralyses Algerian desert town
Daily life has ground to a halt in Ghardaia, a picturesque Algerian city on the edge of the Sahara turned…
Algeria pick Africa’s last ticket to Brazil, edge Burkina Faso
Algeria sealed the fifth and final African zone World Cup qualifying berth on Tuesday, edging their play-off with Burkina Faso…
Algeria strikes big oil deposits
Algeria’s national energy firm Sonatrach has discovered a major oil field with almost 1.3 billion barrels of deposits in the…
Big Win for Ivory Coast, a thin edge for Burkina Faso
Didier Drogba scored as Ivory Coast overcame Senegal 3-1 in Abidjan Saturday to boost hopes of a third consecutive World…
Football: Ghana, Nigeria among World Cup draw seeds
Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria and Tunisia have been seeded for the World Cup Africa zone play-offs draw. Egypt, Burkina…
Obuh Invites 9 Pros For Flying Eagles
Coach of Nigeria’s Flying Eagles, John Obuh, has called up nine foreign-based professionals ahead of the country’s participation in this…
Algeria’s hostage crisis ends in massacre
IN AMENAS, Algeria (AFP) – A dramatic four-day hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant ended in a bloodbath Saturday…
Algeria ends desert siege with high death toll
Algerian forces stormed a desert gas complex, In Amenas, to free hundreds of hostages but 30, including several Westerners, were…
50 killed in Algeria’s hostage crisis
Algerian troops Thursday launched strikes on a gas complex where Islamists are holding dozens of foreigners killing nearly 50 people,…
Mali: Algeria hostage takers demand army pull out
Islamist extremists and three of 41 hostages they are holding at an Algerian gas field demanded Thursday, in interviews with…