Didier Drogba came off the bench to rescue a point for Ivory Coast as they drew 1-1 with Malawi on Saturday to book their place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
African countries are looking to profit from another change to the FIFA statutes, one which has further eased restrictions on players seeking to switch footballing nationality. The age limit at which players had to make a choice has been removed, letting a handful of players claim a new international career.
Egypt kept their World Cup hopes alive as the only goal of the game by Ahmed Hassan gave them a 1-0 win over Rwanda in Kigali.
Algeria, Ghana and the Ivory Coast all celebrated victories in the third round of matches in African qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals, FIFA.com report.
Substitute Victor Obinna came off the bench to score twice as Nigeria beat Kenya 3-0 in Abuja, to claim their first victory in African World Cup qualifying Group B.
Spanish police arrested 12 Algerians and an Iraqi early Wednesday on suspicion of using money from common criminal activities to fund Islamic terrorism in Algeria, Spain's Interior Ministry said in a statement.
A Spanish court convicted four men Tuesday but acquitted 10 others of charges that they helped four suspects from the Madrid train bombings to flee.
Incumbent leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika has won a third term in office after a landslide victory in Algeria's presidential election, media reports said Friday.
Algerians went to the polls Thursday in an election that could see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika win a third term in office.
A French battleship sunk by German torpedoes in 1917 is lying upright and almost intact at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where it was found by an unmanned submarine surveying a proposed gas pipeline route between Italy and Algeria.
Didier Drogba came off the bench to rescue a point for Ivory Coast as they drew 1-1 with Malawi on Saturday to book their place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
African countries are looking to profit from another change to the FIFA statutes, one which has further eased restrictions on players seeking to switch footballing nationality. The age limit at which players had to make a choice has been removed, letting a handful of players claim a new international career.
Egypt kept their World Cup hopes alive as the only goal of the game by Ahmed Hassan gave them a 1-0 win over Rwanda in Kigali.
Algeria, Ghana and the Ivory Coast all celebrated victories in the third round of matches in African qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals, FIFA.com report.
Substitute Victor Obinna came off the bench to score twice as Nigeria beat Kenya 3-0 in Abuja, to claim their first victory in African World Cup qualifying Group B.
Spanish police arrested 12 Algerians and an Iraqi early Wednesday on suspicion of using money from common criminal activities to fund Islamic terrorism in Algeria, Spain's Interior Ministry said in a statement.
A Spanish court convicted four men Tuesday but acquitted 10 others of charges that they helped four suspects from the Madrid train bombings to flee.
Incumbent leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika has won a third term in office after a landslide victory in Algeria's presidential election, media reports said Friday.
Algerians went to the polls Thursday in an election that could see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika win a third term in office.
A French battleship sunk by German torpedoes in 1917 is lying upright and almost intact at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where it was found by an unmanned submarine surveying a proposed gas pipeline route between Italy and Algeria.
The UK's highest court Wednesday ordered that the man known as Osama bin Laden's spiritual ambassador to Europe be deported to Jordan, despite claims that he faces torture.
The U.S. government is investigating a former CIA officer in Algeria who has been accused of drugging and raping two women while he held the post, according to an affidavit released by the Justice Department.
A former CIA station chief in Algeria is under investigation by the State and Justice departments after being accused of raping at least two women while he held the post, a source confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.
Zinedine Zidane is sure of the quality most necessary to create a successful team: mutual respect.
The price of oil fell Tuesday, after a big rally in the previous session, as investors looked past the government's latest economic intervention to focus on the long-term economic outlook and waning energy demand.
Oil prices rebounded from a 21-month low Thursday as equity markets recovered and investors weighed the possibility that OPEC may pledge another production cut before the end of the month.
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Two car bombings in eastern Algeria killed at least 11 people Wednesday -- a day after a blast near a military school in a neighboring region claimed 43 lives.
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The worst yet in a spate of suicide bombings stokes fears of more attacks during the coming holy month
An attack on a military school in Algeria killed 43 people and wounded another 38 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.
Two bombs exploded Sunday at a train station in Algeria, killing at least 13 people
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook northern Algeria on Friday, knocking houses to the ground and injuring 15 people.
Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil told reporters the cartel will make no new decision on production levels until Sept. 9
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The second-in-command of al Qaeda has said the terrorist group does not kill innocents and that its leader Osama bin Laden is healthy, according to a transcript of an audio tape released by radical Islamist Web sites.
Austrian officials are seeking to secure the release of two Austrian nationals who were kidnapped by an al Qaeda group while vacationing in North Africa ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline.
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A car bomb attack in Algeria has killed three people and wounded 23, the Algerian Press Service reported.
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility Thursday for a bombing a day earlier in Algeria that killed four police officers and wounded 20 people at a building housing security forces.
More than 24 hours after twin bombings killed dozens in the Algerian capital, rescue workers continued to search for nearly a dozen people trapped beneath the debris of a partially collapsed United Nations building.
Terror experts in Europe fear the bombings in Algeria offer a prime example of how jihad could spread to Europe
International leaders Tuesday rushed to condemn deadly twin bombings in the Algerian capital, which appeared to target government and United Nations buildings. Here is some of the reaction.
Since forming an alliance with Osama bin Laden, Algeria's Islamist rebels have grown more sophisticated -- and lethal
France's President is expected to finalize a series of big business deals on his visit -- but he'll hope to quell rising tensions between the former colonial possession too
Thirty suspected Islamic terrorists went on trial Monday in a courthouse they are charged with plotting to destroy with a truck bomb.
A militant Islamic group that recently renamed itself al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for two suicide attacks that killed dozens in Algeria -- including an assassination attempt on the country's president.
OPEC was deciding Tuesday whether to maintain its production quota or give it a modest and symbolic boost to calm oil markets worried that there may not be enough crude to meet global demand by year's end.
Gas prices rose 6.5 cents over the past two weeks to $2.81 per gallon of self-serve regular, the first increase at the pump since early July, a national survey said Sunday.
The death toll kept rising in Algeria on Saturday after a car bomb attack near a coast guard barracks about 50 miles from Algiers.
At least 14 people were killed and 60 others wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a crowd waiting to see Algeria's president in Batna, east of the capital of Algiers, the Algerie Presse Service reported.
Ronaldinho, starting as a substitute after declining to take part in last month's Copa America, came off the bench to score the second goal in Brazil's 2-0 friendly win over Algeria on Wednesday.
Oil prices will stay high all summer due to refinery constraints and high demand internationally, Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said in remarks published Wednesday.
Algeria's Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said Monday there was "not much" OPEC could do to bring down high oil prices as global crude oil stocks were already sufficient.
Long before anyone in the U.S. was taking al-Qaeda seriously, Jean-Louis Bruguiere warned of its danger. His retirement ends an era
The Bush administration on Tuesday added seven nations, including several key U.S. allies in the Middle East, to its human trafficking blacklist
Moroccan police say they have arrested a fifth member of a suspected terror cell close to where three other suspects blew themselves up and one was shot dead on Tuesday, according to news agencies.
Algerian security forces have stepped up their presence on the streets of the capital, Algiers, one day after the city was shaken by two deadly bomb blasts and amid fears of a renewed insurgency in the north African country.
An al Qaeda-affiliated group has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's two bomb blasts in Algiers that the state-run news agency Algerie Presse Service said killed at least 24 people and wounded 222.
Algeria have axed France-based striker Abdelmalek Cherrad, accusing him of severe indiscipline, after he walked out before last weekend's African Nations Cup qualifier in Algiers.
Six people were killed and 13 wounded Tuesday in seven separate attacks in northern Algeria, a statement from the country's interior minister said.
Egyptian internationals Ibrahim Said and Amr Zaki are to start trials at English Premier League club Sheffield United, their Cairo club Zamalek have said.
Under tight security, a terror trial for six Algerian men, one of whom is charged in an alleged failed plot to attack a U.S.-Spanish military base in southern Spain, began in the capital Monday.
Germany's federal prosecutor's office announced Saturday it has arrested a German of Moroccan descent on charges that he recruited suicide bombers for Iraq and financially supported the al Qaeda terrorist network.
A Spanish judge has indicted 33 suspected Islamic extremists in a failed plot to attack the National Court in Madrid, which tries terrorism cases, with a truck bomb, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.
Interpol, the international police agency, issued an "international wanted persons notice" Wednesday for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq.
"Trust but verify," Ronald Reagan once said, describing his approach to Soviet arms reduction efforts. The unspoken corollary to his admonition was that promises alone are worthless.
Western Sahara's exiled Polisario Front independence movement has released all of its remaining Moroccan prisoners of war -- a total of 404 -- the International Committee of the Red Cross and a U.S. official said.
Two Algerian diplomats were abducted Thursday afternoon outside a restaurant in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood, a police source said.
Christian Chukwu was effectively sacked as coach by the Nigerian FA on Tuesday because of disappointing results in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.
Nigeria and Senegal's places in the 2006 World Cup finals have been left in doubt after being held to draws in African qualifying on Sunday.
Suicide bomb attacks outside a hospital and a police station killed 27 Iraqis early Monday, officials said.
An Algerian terrorist who held 32 Europeans hostage in the Sahara Desert last year has been captured in Chad, the German Federal Prosecutor's office said.
Polling is under way in Algeria in a closely-watched presidential election in Africa's second-largest country.
Belgium's 2002 World Cup coach Robert Waseige says he is not yet ready to sign his contract with the Algerian national team, due to other commitments.
A small group of U.S. troops quietly helped Chad's military in a running battle this week against an Algerian Islamic group, U.S. sources said Thursday.
Holders Cameroon and Algeria sneaked into the Nations Cup quarterfinals at the expense of four-times winners Egypt, whose coach Mohsen Salah quit.
Cameroon, winners of the last two African Nations Cups, were held to a surprise 1-1 draw by outsiders Algeria as they began the defence of their crown on Sunday.
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