Vol 45 No 16 | ALGERIA Military matters 6th August 2004 The 3 August announcement that Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohamed Lamari had resigned for health reasons (for treatment in Spain for an eye condition) came after weeks...
Vol 45 No 6 | ALGERIA A man for election seasons 19th March 2004 Algerians dislike their clever President but they'll probably re-elect him On 8 April, Abdelaziz Bouteflika will almost certainly become Algeria's first civilian president to win re-election. If he does, it will reflect less on his popularity than his...
Vol 45 No 6 | ALGERIA Le Para moves east 19th March 2004 On 9-10 March, fighting in Chad's Tibesti region, near the Niger border, indicated that fighters from Algeria's biggest active Islamist militia, the Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de...
Vol 45 No 5 | ALGERIA Squeezing Le Para 5th March 2004 The Algerian security services' relaxed approach to the growing United States' military presence in the Sahel reflects their concern at the number of arms in circulation, especially in...
Vol 45 No 4 | ALGERIAUNITED STATES Desert shadows 20th February 2004 Reports of an ambush at the end of January somewhere between 'north of Tamanrasset' in southern Algeria and northern Mali point to the complex and lethal war games...