The problem is not that they lack for philanthropy but that city government has itself disinvested in such bread-and-butter matters as park maintenance.

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Former Sonatrach boss Abdelmajid Attar has told Algeria's Le Soir's newspaper that BP and Statoil - which evacuated their foreign staff after the siege - risked huge financial losses if they disinvested from In Amenas.

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