The final report on a 2014 Air Algerie airliner crash that killed 116 people, released Friday, said the accident was largely due to the pilots failing to activate the plane's anti-icing system.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashed in the desert in northern Mali in bad weather, barely half an hour into its flight from Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou to Algiers, killing everyone on board.

Algeria accused Le Monde newspaper Sunday of "gratuitously" damaging its president's image, as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls sought to resolve a row that threatens to overshadow key trade deals.

Twelve Algerian soldiers were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash caused by technical failure in the south of the country, the defense ministry said.

The Mi-171 helicopter crashed during a reconnaissance mission near Reggane, in the southwestern province of Adrar, the APS press agency quoted the ministry as saying.

Algerian police killed a jihadist during a search operation in the Tizi Ouzou region east of the capital, the official APS news agency reported Thursday citing a police statement.

Cornered by the army, the man who was wearing an explosives belt then headed towards a police station "probably intending to blow himself up", APS reported security sources as saying.

Algerian soldiers killed six suspected jihadists in an area near the Tunisian border on Monday, the defense ministry said.

They were killed in an "ongoing army operation" in El Oued province, 600 kilometers (370 miles) southeast of Algiers, it said in a statement.

Suspected jihadists launched a rocket attack Friday on an Algerian gas plant jointly run by foreign companies, three years after a deadly hostage crisis at another facility in the Sahara desert.

There were no reports of casualties in Friday's assault on a plant operated by Britain's BP, Norway's Statoil and Algerian company Sonatrach.

Algeria's parliament adopted a package of constitutional reforms Sunday that authorities say will strengthen democracy, but opponents doubt it will bring real change.

The reforms are meant to address longstanding public grievances in the North African nation, and possibly to prepare for a smooth transition amid concerns over the health of 78-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has taken control of Algeria's security and intelligence services by forming a new leadership for the entire sector, newspapers reported Monday.

The reports said a DSS agency has been set up to replace the powerful DRS intelligence agency, which is being dissolved.

Berlin wants Algeria and Morocco to take back their nationals with no residence permits in Germany after a sharp rise in asylum seekers from the two North African countries, officials said Friday.

Alarmed by the spike in North African arrivals, German authorities want their countries of origin to help in their swift repatriations, in order to free up resources to deal with asylum seekers fleeing war and violence.

A fire sparked by an electrical fault killed 18 African migrants and injured 43 others Tuesday at a camp in Algeria, emergency services and the Red Crescent said.

The blaze began before dawn at the camp housing about 600 migrants in Ouargla, 800 kilometers (500 miles) southeast of Algiers.