Algeria's ex-Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia  seen as Bouteflika's most likely successor just a few months ago  Finance Minister Mohamed Loukal and former police chief Abdelghani Hamel have all appeared in court this week in three different cases involving corruption allegations...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Officers have been reshuffled and retired across the security services since the sacking in June of Major General Abdelghani Hamel of the Direction générale de la Sûreté nationale (DGSN)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     That affair  which emerged after 701 kilogrammes of cocaine were seized in Oran in late May  has put paid to the ambitions of high-flying Direction général de la sûreté nationale (DGSN) chief Major General Abdelghani Hamel...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The police chief  Major General Abdelghani Hamel of the Direction générale de la sûreté nationale  has ordered increased surveillance of borders  citing intelligence from Iraq and Syria that more Algerians who joined Da'ish are coming home...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     This initiative was pushed by Algeria's head of the police  the Direction générale de la sûreté nationale  Major General Abdelghani Hamel...
	 
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	     Abdelghani Hamel  one of the more publicly ambitious officers...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 52 No 3 | 
            - NORTH AFRICA
	     The Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale (DGSN) police chief  former Republican Guard Commander General Abdelghani Hamel  is said to be doing a better job than his predecessor  Colonel Ali Tounsi  in controlling crime in the capital  a growing preoccupation...