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Needless to say the phantoms of the village possessed me once. I lost orientation next to an experimental theatre, and by the time I orbited past an Algerian delicatessen mind-body severance was complete. As reality bade farewell, I sought refuge in an innocent looking private art gallery, specializing in post-modernity and free deliver. Within its diminutive space, a few day tourists were examining the presented works with quizzical glances; in search of stability, I did the same. My chosen spectacle was a scalding, large picture of the sea. Huge splashes of thick blue paint covered the canvas, rearing...
...breakthrough or just another blind turn? Last week, following more than a month of negotiations, Algerian diplomat Mohammed Sahnoun, the ranking U.N. representative in Somalia, and General Mohammed Farah Aidid, who heads one of two factions that have been locked in fratricidal war, agreed to the establishment of an armed U.N. force to open the port of Mogadishu, where tons of relief supplies have reportedly rotted away on the docks or been dumped into the harbor. U.N. officials said the planned contingent would number about 500 troops and could be deployed within two or three weeks. The U.S. has ( offered...
...road through northern Congo that would open the region to development. And in 1990 only the arguments of Fay and Japanese researchers, backed by the U.S. government and the World Bank, persuaded Congolese authorities that there were alternatives to giving a logging concession for the Ndoki region to an Algerian-Congolese consortium...
...seconds after Mohammed Boudiaf spoke the words "We are all going to die," an assassin in uniform raised his submachine gun and fired, killing the 73-year-old Algerian head of state. Boudiaf may have thought he was merely making a philosophical point in his address to a crowd at a cultural center in the Mediterranean port city of Annaba. It was his first trip outside Algiers since he took office after a military coup in January. In the confusion and panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by gunfire and grenades...
Though the government was reticent, the Algerian media reported that the killer was a member of the security service who acted out of "religious conviction." Suspicion fell naturally on the religious fundamentalists of the Islamic Salvation Front, whose electoral victory last January was aborted by a military coup. The Front was banned, and 10,000 suspected fundamentalists were arrested. Since then, militant Muslims have killed as many as 100 soldiers and police officers...