FLASH NEWS: Mali, Niger & Burkina Faso to recall their ambassadors from Algeria over downed drone
In a statement read out on national TV Sunday evening, Mali’s security minister accused Algeria of shooting down one
French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud has won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centered on Algeria'scivil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s, organizers said. The jury needed just one round of voting to award the coveted prize to Daoud, who is based in Algeria, for his novel "Houris" about what has become known as Algeria's "black decade".
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