ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has sent thousands of police officers to calm weeks of ethnic clashes in a southern desert city, and seven people have been arrested. Ghardaia, a picturesque city ...
This extraordinary desert country has long been difficult for tourists to visit. That’s all changing
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I’ve been to friendly places before, where people are kind and the tradition of hospitality is so beautiful it breaks your heart. But I’ve never experienced anything like Algeria. We stood on the side ...
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Algeria bets on desert tourism to diversify economy
Algeria is pinning its hopes on its vast desert to attract tourists as part of International Monetary Fund-recommended reforms to diversify its oil-reliant economy. The North African Opec member ...
One of the most rewarding to visit is Timimoun, located in the north on the shores of an immense sand sea of over 23,000sq miles. It’s nicknamed La Rouge (‘the red’) for its ochre-red mud-brick ...
“Here in the desert, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk, ...
EL OUED, Algeria Salim Ghrassia graduated with a statistics degree five years ago but opted for a rather different career: joining Algeria’s push to farm the Sahara desert. “I saw the agricultural ...
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