Algiers - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected to an unprecedented third term with 90.24 per cent of the vote, Interior Minister Nouredine Yazid Zerhouni announced Friday. The re-election of the 72-year-old Bouteflika was considered a foregone conclusion after the two main opposition parties decided to boycott the vote, alleging that it had been "rigged in advance."
The five candidates who stood against Bouteflika were marginal political figures little known by the general public.
Algiers - More than 20,000 police officers were deployed on Thursday in and around the Algerian capital Algiers as voters went to the polls to elect a new president.
The city was under a security alert because officials feared that Islamic terrorists would attempt to disrupt the vote.
In addition, some 200 international observers, including 85 sent by the Arab League, were on hand to scrutinize the election, the outcome of which is universally considered a foregone conclusion.
Algiers - In the latest of a series of terrorist attacks, a high-ranking Algerian army officer was killed in a bomb attack in northern Algeria and f further soldier badly wounded, media reports said Saturday.
The attack took place on Friday ahead of an election rally appearance by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the region. The rally went ahead despite the attack.
The bombing came at the end of a week of bloodshed in which dozens of people were killed in attacks and clashes.
Algiers - Two soldiers and seven presumed Islamic terrorists have died in Algeria as the wave of violence continued in the run-up to April 9 general elections, local media reported on Wednesday.
The two soldiers were killed when a homemade bomb exploded under the lorry on which they were riding late Monday in the southern region city of M'ziraa, the daily Liberte reported.
Algiers - A suicide bomber killed at least two people in an attack on a police station in northern Algeria on Saturday, according to state radio.
A man with an explosives belt tried to gain entry to a police barracks in Tadmait, about 17 kilometeres west of the regional capital of Tizi Ouzou, according to details in the online edition of El Watan newspaper.
A police officer shot the bomber, but not before he managed to blow himself up, killing a 50-year-old woman and a policeman.
Algiers - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected to an unprecedented third term with 90.24 per cent of the vote, Interior Minister Nouredine Yazid Zerhouni announced Friday. The re-election of the 72-year-old Bouteflika was considered a foregone conclusion after the two main opposition parties decided to boycott the vote, alleging that it had been "rigged in advance."
Algiers - More than 20,000 police officers were deployed on Thursday in and around the Algerian capital Algiers as voters went to the polls to elect a new president.
Algiers - In the latest of a series of terrorist attacks, a high-ranking Algerian army officer was killed in a bomb attack in northern Algeria and f further soldier badly wounded, media reports said Saturday.
Algiers - Two soldiers and seven presumed Islamic terrorists have died in Algeria as the wave of violence continued in the run-up to April 9 general elections, local media reported on Wednesday.
Algiers - A suicide bomber killed at least two people in an attack on a police station in northern Algeria on Saturday, according to state radio.
