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11 Migrants Die In Shipwreck Off Algeria

18May

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11 Migrants Die In Shipwreck Off Algeria

Eleven migrants have reportedly drowned after their boat sank off the Algerian coast of Tipaza as they attempted to reach Europe. International Centre for the Identification of Missing Migrants CIPIMD, a Spanish NGO, said that a boat carrying 16 migrants had set sail from North Africa for Spain's Balearic Islands. "Eleven harragas (Arabic nickname for illegal migrants) who had set sail from Fouka (near Tipaza), died and five young people, including two children, were rescued," the private television channel El-Hayet TV reported on its Facebook page. Read Also: Over 40 Migrants Drowned Off Western Sahara Photos of the victims have gone viral on social media. According to Algerian social media users, the victims hail from the town of Fouka, in the Tipaza prefecture, 70km wes...

Rita Johal, Riyad Mahrez’s Ex-Wife Says Man City ‘Ruined’ Their Marriage

Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez’s ex-wife has claimed that he turned his back on their family after signing for the Premier League champions - and believes City's transfer target, Harry Kane’s wife had a “lucky escape”. The Algerian made a £60m move to the Etihad Stadium in 2018 from Leicester, where he was part of the squad that won a famous league title two years earlier. While at the King Power Stadium, he married then-fiancee Rita Johal - a model and aspiring pop star - in 2015 and had a child the same year. With another member of the family arriving four years later, the relationship suddenly split as Mahrez started dating current fiancee Taylor Ward. And Johal has said that it was the move to City that changed her ex-husband from a down-to-earth dad to a “big head”. ...

Algeria Crude Oil Output Slumped in 2020

Algeria’s oil revenue tumbled in 2020, worsening an economic crisis in the North African country which is highly dependent on crude income, according to data released by the Energy ministry on Sunday. The COVID-19 pandemic had taken a toll on oil prices, ravaging the economies of producer nations. “The overall volume of hydrocarbon exports reached 82.2 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2020, for a value of $20 billion, a decrease of 11 percent and 40 percent respectively compared to 2019,” the ministry said in a statement cited by state news agency APS. The energy ministry said oil income to Algeria’s treasury was down 31 percent year-on-year. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that Algeria, Africa’s fourth-largest economy, will see a 5.2 percent recession in 2020, alo...