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Algeria: Media campaign against financial backers of Bouteflika: the Kouninef brothers
The North Africa Journal - 26 March 2019: The Kouninef brothers have been the focal point of several influential newspapers and have been under attack by social media commentators for their alleged strong ties and support of the Bouteflika regime. The Kouninef family...
Algeria: General Gaid Salah proposes impeachment of Bouteflika as a way out of the crisis
March 26, 2019 - Algeria's army chief called Tuesday for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit to govern, following weeks of mass protests demanding the ailing leader step down after two decades in power. The move would potentially clear the way for...
The Algerian crisis: Are we seeing the end of the tunnel?
(Photo: some highly criticized regime operatives, including Sidi Said (center with no suit), the disgraced head of labor union UGTA, and Ali Haddad (right with no suit), the head of corporate lobby group FCE) By Arezki Daoud - 21 March 2019: The Algerian political...
Algeria: Petroleum sector facing uncertainty as political crisis escalates
By Arezki Daoud - 21 March 2019: Echoing the positions of many of the foreign companies operating in Algeria, peaking with Exxon Mobil halting talks with Sonatrach on the American company’s involvement in a gas project, oil analyst Julian Lee wrote in Bloomberg that...
Algeria: Exxon-Sonatrach talks on gas project stall as political crisis in Algeria deepens and fate of Sonatrach CEO at risk
The North Africa Journal - 20 March 2019: US oil firm Exxon Mobil suspended discussions with Algeria’s state-own Sonatrach on a natural gas development project, according to Reuters. The decision seems to be motivated by what is happening in Algeria with its mass...
Algeria: After major protests, all eyes on the regime
Algiers, March 16, 2019 - Tens of thousands of Algerian protesters have dismissed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promise not to seek a fifth term -- but what are those in power likely to do next? Bouteflika has proposed a "national conference" to carry out reforms...
Another day of protest in Algeria
Algiers, March 13, 2019 - Hundreds of school teachers and students protested in the Algerian capital on Wednesday amid fears that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika plans to extend his two-decade rule. In a surprise announcement Monday, the ailing 82-year-old said he...
Algeria: Regime clings to power, gives minor concessions to Algeria people
Algiers, March 12, 2019 - Thousands of protesters returned to Algeria's streets Tuesday after jubilation over President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's vow not to seek re-election gave way to fears of a plot to prolong his two-decade rule. In a surprise announcement Monday,...
Algeria: Despite announcing a pull out from presidential race and postponement of elections, Bouteflika is going nowhere
Algeria's presidential message that Bouteflika is pulling out from the presidential race is 3/4th victory for protesters, one fourth no so. Bouteflika says he will not run and elections are postponed, but no other person has been appointed to manage the transition. So...
Algeria protests shift to the next phase of nationwide strike, as regime ponders what to do
(Audio version above, on iTunes, and on Android, on YouTube, or download MP3) - Opinion by Arezki Daoud: 10 March 2019: The Algerian popular uprising appears to have reached its next phase. After millions took to the streets across Algerian cities, and continue to...
Egypt’s Sisi frightened by Algerian protests, warns his people to not dare
Cairo, March 10, 2019 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Sunday against the dangers of protesting, in the wake of widespread demonstrations in Algeria and neighbouring Sudan. Sisi, who regularly evokes political stability to draw foreign investment, said...
Franco-Algerians protest against Bouteflika
Paris, March 10, 2019 - Thousands of Algerian-origin protesters demonstrated in Paris and other cities around France on Sunday against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, calling on him not to seek another term in office. Several thousand gathered for the second weekend...
Algeria: Court releases blogger Merzoug Touati
Algiers, March 4, 2019 (AFP) - An Algerian court ordered a blogger released on time served Monday after finding him guilty of colluding with a foreign power at a retrial, his lawyer said. Merzoug Touati, 30, has been through a roller-coaster legal process since he was...
Algeria: TV presenter Nadia Madassi resigns after forced to read Bouteflika letter
Algiers, March 4, 2019 (AFP) - An Algerian state television presenter resigned Monday because she was angry that she had to broadcast parts of a letter by ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, one of her colleagues said. Nadia Madassi, presenter of Canal Algerie's...
Algeria: Regime insists on fifth term, people push against
Algiers, March 4, 2019 - Algerians on Monday dismissed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promise to quit early if re-elected for a fifth time and said they were ready for new protests seeking his resignation. The ailing leader, who suffered a stroke in 2013, vowed in a...
Algeria says candidate with former French citizenship ineligible to run for president
Algiers, March 4, 2019 - When an Algerian businessman was ruled ineligible to stand in April's presidential election, his cousin and namesake stepped forward to take his place. In recent weeks Rachid Nekkaz has travelled around Algeria to gather the necessary 60,000...
Algeria: Anti-regime protests intensify, as hundreds of thousands of people return to the street to oppose status quo
Update2: Algiers, March 1, 2019 - Several people were hurt Friday in violent clashes between police and protesters in the Algerian capital, AFP journalists said, during demonstrations against a bid by ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek a fifth term. A...
Algeria police arrest dozen journalists who were protesting against censorship
Algiers, Feb 28, 2019 - Algerian police arrested Thursday a dozen journalists protesting "censorship" of coverage of demonstrations against a fifth term for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, as the prime minister compared the rallies to those that sparked Syria's war....
Algeria’s dangerous political gridlock
Algiers, Feb 28, 2019 - By Amal Belalloufi and Aymeric Vincenot: Mounting frustration at their ailing president's bid for a fifth term has brought protestors to the streets in Algeria, where Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the regime's candidate for April elections....
Algeria: With growing political unrest over fifth mandate for Bouteflika, regime operatives seek appeasement, avoid provocative language
There is a sense in the Algerian regime that the intensity of the current protests over President Bouteflika’s run for a fifth term would eventually die down. Rather than give the population and regime opponents more reasons to sustain protest, there seems to be a...
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