Algeria: African Press Review 18 January 2013

African press coverage is dominated by the hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant. Also, South Sudan agrees to pull back fro, a contested border with Sudan, and Barack Obama's half-brother runs in the Kenyan elections.

Algerian newspaper Liberté is full of coverage on the attempts to save hostages at the In Amenas gas field. It also says it has an exclusive from Daho Ould Kablia, a spokesperson for the Algerian government who tells them that the terrorist group had entered Algeria through the Libyan border, not the Malian border as the militants claim.

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