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2020-02-10 Africa North

Algerian soldier was killed in a suicide car bomb attack near the Mali border

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An Algerian soldier was killed in a suicide car bomb attack near the Mali border, says the Algerian defense ministry.https://t.co/uxos4TXinJ
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) February 9, 2020

The Jerusalem Post adds:

A ministry statement said the bombing took place in the Bordj Baji Mokhtar region. It was not known who carried out the attack, the first suicide bombing in Algeria for several years.

The conflict in neighboring Libya and deteriorating security across another of Algeria's borders, in Mali, have both fed concerns of armed militant groups growing more active in the Sahara and Sahel regions of North Africa.

Algeria is already wrestling with a major political crisis after a year of mass protests that helped oust the veteran president, but which continue with demonstrators demanding the ruling elite be fully replaced.

It also faces economic problems, with declining energy sales contributing to a fall in state revenue and planned cuts in public spending this year.

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