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Algeria: Parties Present “Invisible” Female Parliamentary Candidates

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The run-up to the May 4th parliamentary election is being marred with a gender controversy after some political parties left the images of female candidates on their official campaign posters blank. The female candidates were represented with an avatar wearing a Hijab while the face was left blank in white. The Independent High Authority for […]
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Algeria: ‘Bouteflika candidate for 2019, if he wishes,’ Ruling Party New Secretary

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Newly elected secretary of the ruling National Liberation Front (FNL), Ould abbaes, has dropped a bombshell when he said that the party’s long-standing president Abdel Aziz Bouteflika would be the party’s candidate for the 2019 presidential election if he wishes. “It is obvious that the President of the party will be our candidate in 2019 […]
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Algeria’s intelligence agency dissolved by President Bouteflika

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A presidential decree, that is yet to be published in the official gazette, has dissolved Algeria’s influential Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS) and created a new intelligence agency known as the Direction of Security Services (DSS.) The new agency is to be led by a retired DRS chief, General Athmane Tartag, making many to […]