Sun, 2019-09-15 01:33
ALGIERS: Algeria is at a harrowing political impasse. Africa’s largest country has not had an elected president for five months, and the powerful army chief wants to change that by holding an election, which he hopes will quell long-running protests he sees as a threat to his energy-rich nation’s stability. But many citizens want more.
They do not want an election forced on them by a regime they decry, and see their uprising as a chance for a wholesale democratic rebirth.
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