Algeria
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The Sacred-Heart cathedral, built in Upper Mustapha district and "Our Lady of Africa" are two of the most well known catholic worship places in Algiers.
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The ferry-boat "Méditerranée" is leaving Algeria with migrant workers coming back to France alone or with their families. For some of them, it is the only time a year they came back home to visit their parents.
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Concert of Italian jazzman Flavio Boltro in Ibn Khaldun at the 14th European Cultural Festival that takes place in Algeria. Boltro has been immersed in jazz from the early age of five.
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Many of the beaches in Algiers are not useable due to pollution. Religious rules in the region also forbid many from wearing bathing suits in public.
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Because traveling by ferry-boat is cheaper than plane, the harbor of Algiers is the place where a lot of migrants workers, and a few travelers, arrive back in the homeland when coming back from France.
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The historical district called the Casbah, is settled on the northern slopes of the city, between "Alger centre" and well known "Bab-el-Oued". Too long neglected by the authorities and overcrowded - poverty, refugees and high birthrate.
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M. Touri square, as it's named today, offers a smell of the past French colonization to visitors. Near the Opera, the "café Tantonville" Terrace welcomes coffee and tea drinkers, for a short trip to the past.
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Large and surrounded by old French colonial and modern buildings, Martyrs square is a very busy place in Algiers. The coach station and mosque El Djeddid draw a lot of people, travelers and believers.
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In the center of Algiers, the French architectural heritage is in danger. Most of the beautiful old French colonial buildings are damaged by time and natural elements (Sea wind and salt) and bad maintenance.
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Between Bastion 23, where is settled the Raïs palace, and the Kettani Point, there is a beach where the only visitors are young men without employment.
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The BP gas plant where hostages are being held by Al Qaeda in In-Amenas, Algeria. Soldiers from the Saharan state attacked a gas field where dozens of Westerners including Britons and Americans were being held. Images taken in 2007.
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a one-eyed war veteran with the smuggling nickname 'Mr Marlboro,' has claimed responsibility for the hostage crisis in In-Amenas, Algeria. He fights under the banner of the Signed-in-Blood Battalion.
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The BP gas plant where hostages are being held by Al Qaeda in In-Amenas, Algeria. Soldiers from the Saharan state attacked a gas field where dozens of Westerners including Britons and Americans were being held. Images taken in 2007.
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The Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf approximately 1800 km southwest of Algiers, operated by the Polisario Front. Thousands of Sahrawis live in the Moroccan controlled Western Sahara as well as controlled camps. Images taken from 2008-2011.
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The Berm of Western Sahara (also known as the Moroccan Hospital - injured school of War Chraid CherifWall) and the Museum of the People's Liberation Army. Tindouf, Algeria.
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