Algeria's long-awaited metro system opens in Algiers

Thousands of people have used the underground metro in Algeria's capital, Algiers, after it finally opened 28 years after construction first began.

The BBC's Chloe Arnold says there was a festival atmosphere, as the opening coincided with a national holiday.

The 10-stop, 6.5km (four mile) line is only the second rail system of its kind in Africa, after the one in Cairo.

After work began in 1982, work was halted because of an economic crisis and a decade-long civil war.   Read More