* 1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria ; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

* 1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria ; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

* 1932 – Houari Boumediene, Algerian politician, 2nd President of Algeria ( d. 1978 )

* 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.

* 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

* 1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.

November 13, 354 – August 28, 430 ), also known as St. Augustine, St. Austin, or St. Augoustinos, was bishop of Hippo Regius ( present-day Annaba, Algeria ).

* 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria ; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

* 1998 – Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.

* 2010 – Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.

* 1977 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen.

* 1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre ( or Sidi Lamri ) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.

* 1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.

* 1962 – French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.

* 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

* 1st – Algeria and Syria

* 1940 4 July – French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out a retaliatory air raid over Gibraltar as a reprisal for the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, by the Force H ( about 1, 300 French sailors were killed and about 350 were wounded in the action against the French fleet ).

In 2004 – 2006, two additional plants, one in Ras Laffan, Qatar, and the other in Skikda, Algeria, were built, but as of early 2007, Ras Laffan is functioning at 50 %, and Skikda has yet to start up.

* Taïeb Chérif ( Algeria ) ( 2003 – 2009 )

* 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria

* 1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34, 000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.

* 1830 – French invasion of Algeria.

* 1998 – Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.

Berber languages are spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Libya and across the rest of North Africa and the Sahara Desert by about 25 to 35 million people.

Shortly after Algerian independence, Morocco started a border dispute in October 1963 in which Cuba sent troops to help Algeria ( see: Sand War ).

Centime ( from Latin centesimus ) is French for " cent ", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries ( including Switzerland, Algeria, Belgium, Morocco and France ).

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Metrorail operates in the major cities of South Africa, and there are some commuter rail services in Algeria, Morocco, Alexandria, Egypt and Tunisia.

Couscous is a staple food throughout Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.

It is also known as: taam ( طعام ) in Algeria and Morocco ; Kuseksi-in Tunisia, Libya and Kuskusi ( كسكسي ) in Egypt.

Today, in Egypt and the Middle East, couscous is known, but in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya couscous is a staple.

In Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, couscous is generally served with vegetables ( carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc.

In Algeria and Morocco it is also served, sometimes at the end of a meal or just by itself, as a delicacy called " seffa ".

The French Army maintained substantial cavalry forces in Algeria and Morocco from 1830 until the Second World War.

French citizens also migrated in large numbers, mainly to the colonies in the north African Maghreb region: 1. 3 million settled in Algeria ; 200, 000 in Morocco ; 100, 000 in Tunisia ; while only 20, 000 migrated to French Indochina.

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership launched at the 1995 Barcelona Conference between the European Union and its originally 12 Mediterranean Partners: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority.

The decision affects ambassadors to the United States, the People's Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Egypt, South Africa, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Cuba, Switzerland, Serbia, Malaysia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Senegal, Nigeria, Libya, Ghana, Algeria, Morocco, Gabon, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau, comprising almost all of Guinea's foreign embassies.

To its west, the area known as Tripolitania has characteristics and a history similar to those of nearby Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.

Two years later, faced with a united Moroccan demand for the sultan's return, rising violence in Morocco, and the deteriorating situation in Algeria, the French government brought Mohammed V back to Morocco.

Morocco is a participant in Medarabtel and a fiber-optic cable links from Agadir to Algeria and Tunisia.

The Arab Maghreb Union is made up of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia.

As a result of Algeria's continued support for the Polisario Front in the dispute over Western Sahara, relations between Morocco and Algeria have remained strained over the past several decades.

Morocco has been aligned with the United States during the Cold War, whereas Algeria kept a distance from the West, favouring the Soviet Union and later a non-aligned position.

Taya made his first visit to Morocco in October 1985 ( prior to visits to Algeria and Tunisia ) in the wake of Moroccan claims that Polisario guerrillas were again traversing Mauritanian territory.

The territory — an area of wasteland and desert bordering the Atlantic Ocean between Mauritania and Morocco — is contested by Morocco and the Polisario ( an independence movement based in the region of Tindouf, Algeria ).