Algeria

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In response to the recent intensification of terrorist activity in Algeria and the wider Saharan region, the Africa Centre for Studies and Research on Terrorism (CAERT) recently held a three-day conference in Algiers to prepare an anti-terrorism action plan for 2010-2013. The conference, which was attended by anti-terrorism officials from the UN and the European Union, preceded the anticipated signing by African heads of state of an agreement to ban the financing of terrorism. Algeria has played a key role in driving Africa-wide anti-terrorism policy, with the first anti-terrorism convention signed in Algiers in