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Agence France-Presse

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in the Algerian capital on Sunday night as part of a tour overshadowed by the murder of a dissident journalist.
The powerful prince and his large delegation were seen being greeted on a red carpet at Algiers airport by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and members of his government.
The aim of the trip was to give “new impetus to bilateral cooperation (and) the realisation of partnerships and investment projects”, the Algerian presidency said ahead of the visit.
Prince Mohammed set off last week on his first foreign tour since the grisly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate on October 2.
The Saudi crown prince’s visit to Algeria has drawn criticism from political and academic circles in the North African country.
Turkish President Erdogan demands Saudis extradite suspects in Khashoggi killing
It was jointly denounced by 17 intellectuals, journalists, Muslim scholars and other figures in Algeria in a statement obtained by AFP.
In the statement, they said the “whole world is certain that he ordered a terrible crime against the journalist Jamal Khashoggi”.

Political parties also expressed opposition to the visit, among them the Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP) opposition party.
It said Prince Mohammed was “responsible for the death of a large number of children and civilians in Yemen” as well as that of Khashoggi.


Louisa Hanoune, head of the opposition Workers’ Party (PT), described his visit as a “provocation”.
Earlier in the day, Prince Mohammed made a brief visit to Mauritania where he signed a series of agreements with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
Khashoggi’s killing has put mounting pressure on Riyadh and Prince Mohammed, who Turkish officials – and reportedly the CIA – have concluded was behind the critic’s death.
Saudi authorities have vehemently denied the crown prince was involved in the murder, although Riyadh has admitted he was killed at the Istanbul consulate.


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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seen behind a military band upon his arrival at Algiers International Airport, southeast of the capital Algiers on December 2, 2018. Photo: AFP

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seen upon his arrival at Algiers International Airport, southeast of the capital Algiers on December 2, 2018. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)

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ADDS NAME OF SUSPECT - In a frame from surveillance camera footage taken Oct. 2, 2018, and published Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, by the pro-government Turkish newspaper Sabah, a man identified by Turkish officials as Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, walks toward the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul before writer Jamal Khashoggi disappeared. Saudi Arabia, which initially called the allegations "baseless," has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press over recent days, including on Thursday over Mutreb’s identification. (Sabah via AP)

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 07, 2018, an aerial image of the "George Bush Center for Intelligence", the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is seen in Langley, Virginia, United States. - CIA interrogators sought a truth serum to use on Al-Qaeda prisoners in addition to waterboarding and other torture techniques after the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to formerly top secret documents released Tuesday, November 13, 2018. Desperate to get information about possible future attacks from Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to have helped plot the 9/11 attacks, interrogators reached back decades to the agency's 1950s experiments with mind-altering drugs like LSD and also to Russian testing of alleged truth serums in the 1980s. In "Project Medication," the CIA doctors weighed barbiturates like sodium amytal and psychotomimetics, which create symptoms of psychosis. They were particularly interested in a drug trade-named Versed, or midazolam, a sedative tha

ADDS NAME OF SUSPECT - In this April 7, 2018, file photo, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, front right, talks with Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Allison Hay, front left, surrounded by his entourage as he tours a flood-damaged area in Houston, Texas. A man, rear second from left, in this image identified by Turkish officials as Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, also appears in pro-government Turkish newspaper images also showing him on surveillance video walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul before writer Jamal Khashoggi vanished. Saudi Arabia, which initially called the allegations "baseless," has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press over recent days, including on Thursday over Mutreb’s identification. (Strever Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP)

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and King Salman of Saudi Arabia (L) are pictured during a family photo session at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Istanbul Summit in Istanbul, Turkey April 14, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo

White House senior adviser Jarod Kushner (R) listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 15, 2014 A general manager of Alarab TV, Jamal Khashoggi, looks on during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama. - Five Saudi officials face the death penalty over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was drugged and dismembered inside the kingdom's Istanbul consulate, Riyadh's public prosecutor said on November 15. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and vocal dissident, died after being drugged by the five accused and then dismembered, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office said in the first Saudi acknowledgement of the manner of his killing. (Photo by MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH / AFP)

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epa07167075 (FILE) - Saudi journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan Jamal Khashoggi attends the the opening ceremony of 11th edition of Arab Media Forum 2012 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 08 May 2012 (reissued 15 November 2018). According to reports, Saudi Arabia's Attorney General Saud al-Mujeb on 15 November told a press conference that an order to bring back Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, even by force, was issued on 29 September by the former Deputy President of the General Intelligence Presidency, adding he had requested the death penalty for five people who have allegedly confessed to their involvement in the killing of Khashoggi at the kingdom's consulate building in Istanbul on 02 October. Al-Mujeb confirmed that 11 people had been accused of participating in the assassination of Khashoggi. EPA-EFE/ALI HAIDER *** Local Caption *** 54713567

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Large delegation touches down in Algiers as questions loom over murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi


Large delegation touches down in Algiers as questions loom over murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


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Large delegation touches down in Algiers as questions loom over murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi