Category Archives: Algeria
The Day That Lost Rights for Women
I find it interesting that March 8th is now “International Women’s Day” – not “International Women’s Rights Day”. This could be a real step forward, to the day when we don’t have “women’s” anything any more. The day when we see that we don’t need it, and that singling out one gender when we only […]
Timbuktu Who’s Who
First Published: 12 July 2012. Updated: 8 February 2013 Jump to News Update Notes MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad) The MNLA is a very recent organisation with a very old cause: the Tuareg have been fighting an insurgency against the central power in Mali since the late 1950s and openly fighting since 1963. This […]
Video: Weapons recovered after In Amenas, Algeria attack thought to be supplied by Libya rebels in Zintan
TV footage of the weapons authorities said were seized after the terrorist attack on the In Amenas natural gas facility in eastern Algeria, which came to a bloody end after a series of operations by the Algerian military. Assault and sniper rifles, grenades, mortars, ammunition and explosives were among the recovered weapons brought to the […]
#Mauritania News in Brief 7 August 2012
The last news summary for Mauritania told of a tragic plane crash [fr] which claimed the lives of seven people, including members of the Air Force and customs officials, and the twist of fate which spared the life of one other. As I write, people are still posting tributes to the victims on a FaceBook event page [ar]. The […]
#Mauritania News in Brief 12 July 2012
12 July 2012: A plane has crashed[fr] in Mauritania, plane crashed after a fuel leak caused it to burst into flames shortly after take-off. All 7 occupants, comprising military personnel and civilians, were killed. Elmohit reports [ar] that it was a regular shipment from the Kinross gold mine at Tasisast. Alakhbar news adds further details [ar], explaining that […]
