ARTICLES RELATING TO
ALGERIA
The Saudi owner of an Algerian cargo ship whose crew were held by Somali pirates for 10 months has admitted paying $2.6m to free them in November 2011, a report says.
Algerian government has broken its long silence about the health of its hospitalised president to say his condition is "improving" but he still needs rest.
At least a dozen people have been injured in violence between two rival communities in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia.
South Africa and Algeria will speed up the formation of a trade committee to focus on areas such as agriculture and infrastructure, the government says.
Two Islamists accused of killing 500 people during Algeria's civil war, including the rape and murder of 60 women, have been sentenced to death.
An Algerian singer accused of poking fun at the police in one of his songs has been given a suspended six-month sentence and fined.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in France after suffering a mini-stroke, is in good health and will return to Algeria within a week, his doctor says.
Three Algerian auxiliary policemen have been killed in what a security official called a "terrorist" attack, a term authorities use to refer to armed Islamists, a report says.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is "responding well" after he suffered a stroke and there was no irreversible damage, a doctor says.
Algeria's president has been transferred to a Paris hospital following a mini-stroke.
The Algeria-Morocco border, closed for two decades amid deadlock over the Western Sahara, is a pressing issue that could be resolved soon, an official says.
Algeria says Ali Kafi, the man who led the country for two years after the 1992 military coup that aimed at stopping Islamists from winning elections, has died in Geneva at age 85.
President Jacob Zuma has arrived in the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria for bilateral talks with his Algerian counterpart, the presidency says.
President Jacob Zuma is set to visit Algeria and Nigeria for talks, the department of international relations says.
A Canadian close to two countrymen implicated in an attack on a gas plant in Algeria that left dozens dead was detained in North Africa before the assault, a report says.
