Despite two bombs that have killed 47 people and wounded more than 100, the State visit by President Eddie Fenech Adami, due to start tomorrow, is still on official sources told this newspaper.

On Thursday, a suicide bomber killed at least 19 people in Batna in a crowd awaiting a visit by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. At least 28 people were killed yesterday and some 60 injured in a car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in Dellys, 100 km east of Algiers.

President Fenech Adami, who will be leading a full Maltese delegation, will be welcomed officially tomorrow morning, after which he is scheduled to have a series of meetings with various Algerian dignitaries.

Tomorrow evening, Dr Fenech Adami is due to address an Algerian-Maltese Business Forum at the State residence El Mithak.

On Tuesday, the President will lay a wreath at the Martyrs’ Monument and visit the Moudjahid Museum in Algiers after which he will be been hosted to a State lunch at the presidential palace before leaving for Malta.