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Algeria arrests more members of MAK separatist group

Algeria arrests more members of MAK separatist group

ALGERIA has arrested 16 more members of a separatist group authority have declared a terrorist organisation, according to the paramilitary police. The arrests, which included a journalist, took place in the two mostly Berber-speaking Kabylie provinces of Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia after investigations over wildfires that killed at least 65 people last month, the paramilitary police, or National Gendarmerie, said in a statement. The government has accused MAK, a separatist group in the Kabylie region, east of Algiers, of being behind the devastating forest fires, which hit several provinces, including Tizi Ouzou. Algeria last week said it had detained 30…
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