12:35 GMT 25th April 2012
Algeria will pay $6.5bn to acquire a controlling stake in Vimpelcom's Algerian mobile phone unit, a top finance ministry source said on March 28, potentially ending a dispute that has dragged for over a year.
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02:08 GMT 18th July 2011
Spain's Gas Natural said in mid-June Algerian state energy company Sonatrach will acquire a ~ 3.85 per cent stake in the U firm, the latest step in solving a long-running dispute between them.
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12:25 GMT 19th May 2011
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised to amend the constitution to 'strent,rthen democracy'.
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10:58 GMT 6th January 2011
Egypt's Orascom Telecom may seek international arbitration to end a dispute with Algeria that is holding up its $6.6bn plan to sell assets to Russia's Vimpelcom, according to a letter seen by Reuters in November.
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04:11 GMT 21st October 2010
France wants to organise a conference of heads of state of a group of Sahel countries that have joined forces to fight against terrorist networks in the region but Algeria is opposed to the move.
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