Hassi Messaoud
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حسي مسعود Hassi Messaoud |
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 42 ′ N , 6 ° 3 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Algeria | ||
| Ouargla | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | DZ-30 | ||
Hassi Messaoud ( Arabic حسي مسعود or حاسي مسعود) is a city in the southeast Algerian Sahara in the province of Ouargla , which gained a certain fame after major oil discoveries in 1956.
The airport Oued Irara-Krim Belkacem Airport (named after Krim Belkacem ) provides, among other flights to London Gatwick , Madrid and Paris Charles De Gaulle .
history
In 1958, French and Anglo-Saxon companies began to extract oil from Hassi Messaoud, and a pipeline to Bougie was opened in 1959. After Algerian independence, France and Algeria agreed in 1965, especially for Hassi Messaoud, to set up a joint state company ( SONATRACH ), in which Algeria finally took over 51 percent of the shares in 1971.
Hassi Messaoud was also the site of a summit meeting in December 1975 between Libya's revolutionary leader Gaddafi and Algeria's President Boumedienne. The announced cooperation agreements between Libya and Algeria were prematurely and unilaterally misinterpreted by the Libyan side as the first step towards the unification of the two states.
From 2001 onwards, pogroms of often unemployed men against single, non-resident, working women took place in the city , which attracted international attention.
Web links
- L'autre face de Hassi Messaoud (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robin Leonard Bidwell : Dictionary of Modern Arab History , pages 180 and 336. Routledge, New York 1998
- ↑ freitag.de of September 19, 2003: You-You-Schreie in der Nacht. Not only dangerous for foreigners A pogrom against women in the Algerian Sahara ; accessed on January 29, 2020
- ↑ n-tv.de of May 27, 2010: Hassi Messaoud's hell. Violence against Algerian women ; accessed on January 29, 2020