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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has sent veiled messages to France implying his country’s willingness to establish a strategic partnership with Turkey to ease pressures sparked by the tense relations with Paris.
The mujahideen slaughtered government officials, members of the security forces, journalists, feminists, intellectuals and French-speaking individuals in what appeared to be a bid to eliminate the educated class that, according to them, had been contaminated by Western values. They killed school teachers, soccer fans, tourists from the West, moderate Muslims, women, politicians, among other forms of outrageous brutality that made the country to recede to primitive age of savagery. In Algeria’s struggle against terrorism, some 150,000 people lost their lives, and the country sustained some $...
Algeria's sleeping revolution is reignited 2019 protests were sparked by the decision to run Bouteflika for a fifth term [Getty] Date of publication: 22 December, 2020 Share this page: Comment: Some said the Arab Spring would never reach Algeria, but as the people cheered on the regional protests, their own revolution was brewing, writes Malia Bouattia. As many around the world mark the 10-year anniversary since the Arab uprisings, Algerians are likely to reflect on the period quite differently. Algeria was often referred to a...