David Cameron to visit Algeria in wake of hostage crisis
David Cameron is to visit Algeria in the wake of the hostage crisis that left six Britons dead, it was revealed tonight.
A ranking Algerian diplomat suspected in the 1987 murder of a dissident in Paris is free to go home, three months after Algeria called him a hostage of France.Mohammed Ziane Hasseni, protocol chief for Algeria's Foreign Ministry, arrested in August, has been under judicial supervision and barred from leaving France.The case has strained ties between France and Algeria, a former colony.