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Kaylia Nemour wins the gold medal in the Women's uneven bars, the first gold medal in gymnastics for Algeria.
2024-08-4

The United Arab Emirates reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a citizen who travelled from Africa.
2021-12-1

An Ilyushin Il-76 military plane crashes shortly after take-off from Boufarik Military Airport in Algeria, killing all 257 passengers on board.
2018-04-11

Nigerien authorities discover the bodies of 34 migrants, mostly children, left behind in the Sahara desert by people smugglers who were taking them to Algeria and then to Europe.
2016-06-16

Three people in Mali, which has had no cases, are injected with an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, the first such trial in Africa.
2014-10-10

Chadian soldiers kill Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an al-Qaeda commander in Africa responsible for a mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant.
2013-03-2

African leaders meet in Chad to discuss the Great Green Wall tree belt from Senegal to Djibouti in the battle against the Sahara.
2010-06-17

New research based on a previous study indicates climate may be responsible for Scotland having more and Africa having fewer people with red hair.
2010-03-8

15 people are killed and 15 are injured, five seriously, when a bus and truck collide on a major highway in the Sahara Desert in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria.
2010-01-10