Algerians vote on peace plan after 13-year insurgency

Algerians today voted on a peace plan the government says will help turn the page on a brutal Islamic insurgency that left an estimated 120,000 dead, but which critics say will whitewash past crimes.

More than 18 million voters were called to polling stations in the oil- and gas-rich North African country, which stretches from the Mediterranean coast to the sandy wastes of the Sahara Desert. Preliminary results from the referendum were expected at around midnight.