Algeria is the continent's biggest country, and is the world's 10th largest.It is also a gateway between Africa and Europe. Where oil and gas waS discovered in year 1950's, but most Algerians live along the northern coast. More than a million Algerians were killed in the fight for independence from France in 1962, and the country is emerging from a brutal internal conflict caused when elections that Islamists appeared certain to win were cancelled in 1992; a low-level Islamist insurgency still affects Algeria.
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