Cameron on Algeria and Africa’s ‘ungoverned space’
David Cameron’s Commons statement on the hostage situation in Algeria begs all sorts of questions about UK involvement in the region.
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David Cameron’s Commons statement on the hostage situation in Algeria begs all sorts of questions about UK involvement in the region.
As the prime minister rues the kidnapping of British gas workers in “one of the most remote places in the world”, Channel 4 News looks at the life of a typical expat oil and gas executive.
As the Algerian operation continues to free western hostages kidnapped by Islamist militants at a gas plant in the Sahara, Channel 4 News looks at the events that precipitated the crisis.
Energy giants will be rethinking their presence in the region after Islamist fighters seize foreign workers at Algeria’s In Amenas field, an energy security analyst tells Channel 4 News.
Around 30 foreigners are still being held hostage or are missing in Algeria following their capture by Islamist militants at a gas facility in the desert, according to Algerian state media.
David Cameron tells MPs that fewer than 30 Britons were initially thought to have been kidnapped in Algeria, but this number has now been “quite significantly reduced”.
An Algerian government spokesman confirms hostages have died in a military operation in the Sahara desert as David Cameron warns of ‘further bad news’ for the UK.
A Briton is believed to be one of two people killed in an ongoing attack on a BP gas facility in Algeria. The attackers say 41 hostages have been taken in revenge for attacks on Islamists in Mali.
Algerian media reports a British national has been killed in an attack by Islamist militants on a BP-run gas field in the north African country, with British workers amongst others who were kidnapped.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s wife and three children have fled to Algeria. In Libya, the rebel council says it is an “act of aggression” that Algeria let them in the country.
Small groups of protesters, following up on the success of the Egyptian revolution, have had their demonstrations closed down by pro-government and security forces in both Yemen and Algeria.
The US has drafted a UN Security Council resolution calling for a “temporary ceasefire” in Gaza, linked to the release of hostages held by Hamas.
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…
The unrest across France has forced Emmanual Macron to postpone a state visit to Germany that was to begin tomorrow. The riots, which were sparked by the police killing of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent, are presenting the French president with one of the biggest crises of his leadership.
Belgium has suffered its worst peacetime attack, months after warning that terrorists were about to strike the capital with a Paris-style atrocity.