Algerian militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar has been charged by US prosecutors over a siege at a gas plant earlier this year.
37 hostages were killed when Algerian security forces retook the Tigantourine complex from militants who had captured it a few days before, taking local and foreign workers hostage.
Belmokhtar is still at large and the US has offered $5mn reward for information leading to his arrest.
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