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Test for Algerian protesters

Test for Algerian protesters

LAMINE CHIKHI  ALGERIA's protest movement, which shook the country by ousting its veteran president in 2019, faces a critical test for its survival on Friday, with police poised to confront any who take to the streets. The movement, known as Hirak, is leaderless and unorganised, but after a year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it revived in February, bringing out demonstrators every Friday since then to demand wholesale political change. Though the protests are now much smaller than at their peak, many of the thousands who still regularly march each week appear ready to brave a harsher government approach.…
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Revival of Algerian street movement

Revival of Algerian street movement

THOUSANDS of Algerians demonstrated against the political and military elite in cities across the country for a second successive Friday, as the United Nations human rights body voiced concern at what it called a crackdown on protesters. The demonstrations mark a resumption of the street protest movement, calling for the old political establishment to depart and the army to quit politics, which suspended its weekly marches a year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Police have not stopped the protests but maintain a heavy street presence and the spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said there…
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Algerian protesters march for a second time this week

Algerian protesters march for a second time this week

THOUSANDS of people demonstrated in central Algiers yesterday for a second time this week, confirming the resumption of street protests that had been in abeyance for nearly a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Weekly street protests from February 2019 prompted the army to force a veteran president from power in the biggest shock to Algeria's political system in decades, stopping only for a COVID-19 lockdown in March last year. The protesters are demanding a complete overhaul of the old ruling elite, an end to corruption and the army's withdrawal from politics. Marchers chanted "peaceful, peaceful" and "our demands are…
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