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Major General Khaled Nezzar, who has died aged 86, was the Algerian army’s mailed fist in the suppression of anti-government riots in 1988 and in the war against the Islamists in the 1990s, precursors of the drive for change which would again be thwarted during the Arab Spring in the century to come.
Algeria, large, predominantly Muslim country of North Africa. Most of the population resides along the Mediterranean coast. Although an integral part of the Maghreb and the larger Arab world, Algeria also has a sizable Amazigh (Berber) population. The Sahara and its extreme climate dominate the country.
The Algerian Football Federation said late Wednesday that a bus crash has killed two members of its Ligue 1 side Mouloudia El Bayadh and that it would postpone all games scheduled for this week.
A bus crash killed two members of Algerian Ligue 1 side Mouloudia El Bayadh in the late hours of Wednesday, prompting...
A 27-year-old goalkeeper, Zakaria Bouziani and an assistant coach, Khalid Muftah, of Algerian Ligue 1 side Mouloudia El Bayadh were reportedly killed in the late hours of Wednesday in a bus crash. Reuters reports that the accident prompted the national football federation to postpone all games scheduled for this week across all divisions. It was reported that Bouziani, who was a stand-in goalkeeper, made two league appearances this season.