After years of gruesome civil war (beginning in 1992), Algeria is slowly returning to normal.
Archive for the ‘Algeria’ Category
Life is Improving for Algerians
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Algeria's Bouteflika Re-elected
Saturday, April 11th, 2009Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will serve a third consecutive term as president of his country.
Bombing at Algerian Police Academy
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008A suicide car bomber killed 43 at a police academy in Algeria today (August 19).
The following day, there was another fatal attack.
Algerian Militants: From Nationalist Insurgents to Global Jihadists
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Militant Islamists in Algeria, who prompted a bloody civil war there in the 1990s, have forged new ties with Al-Qaeda and are attempting to transform what had been a nationalist insurgency into part of the global jihad.
See also the Times’ useful timeline of the Islamist resistance movement in Algeria
Going to School in Algeria
Friday, June 27th, 2008The latest installment in the New York Times’ “Generation Faithful” series features a story about education in Algeria, a country where in recent decades the struggle between fundamentalist (and at times extremist) Islam and more modern and secular emphases has been acute. Michael Slackman writes, “Now the government is urgently trying to re-engineer Algerian identity, changing the curriculum to wrest momentum from the Islamists, provide its youth with more employable skills, and combat the terrorism it fears schools have inadvertently encouraged.”
Michael Slackman, “In Algeria, A Tug of War for Young Minds,” The New York Times, June 23, 2008, A1
Muslims in Algeria Protest Government Ban on Veils and Beards in Passport Pictures
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Muslim clerics in Algeria, a country where a civil war raged between the government and Islamists in the 1990s, are protesting a government ban on the wearing of veils and beards in passport pictures.
