04:11 GMT 21st October 2010
Some presidents, including Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, are believed to have the auspices of a foreign country nor one that is outside the region’ in an attempt to maintain the country’s leadership role in regional counterterrorism.
Algeria has already hosted two major conferences on the issue in the last six months, the first in March, the second last month.
‘Algeria appears to be leading in the counterterrorism strategy within the Sahel subregion, where the security situation is becoming increasingly worrying,’ the Algerian daily newspaper El Watan has written.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is a terrorist network responsible for the abduction of several Westerners in the region.
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