Algeria

Algeria

Population: 36.5 mn.
GDP: $206.5 bn.
Debt: $5.3 bn.
Overview:

Protests will continue but but the government – with nearly US$200 billion in foreign reserves thanks to high oil and gas prices – will seek to buy off trouble. Politicians will focus on 2014, when President Abdelaziz Bouteflika should step down. Algerian security is losing control of its old Sahel fiefs.

 

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  • Vol 53 No 23
  •  16th November 2012

No spring in the step

Popular discontent remains widespread but unfocused. The looming presidential succession may sharpen choices and increase tension

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Bouncing the Spring

The Islamist electoral challenge petered out but a low turnout and spoiled ballots dented the credibility of the polls

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

The neighbours start talking

A new warmth in relations could mean the reopening of the common border but agreement on Western Sahara remains problematic

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Waiting for a breakthrough

Islamists are manoeuvring to take centre stage in Algeria, where efforts to create a national protest movement have been stifled.

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

No springtime in Algiers

The ageing elite which supported Gadaffi to keep revolutions at bay now faces much bigger challenges at home

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

Boutef holds back the wave

Algiers calculates that astute state spending will counter growing political anger at unemployment, corruption and chronic housing shortages

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 2009

Football fuss

Algeria and Egypt stopped just short of war over qualification for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa. We hear that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had considered a special forces intervention if Algeria lost a group play-off match to decide Afric...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

Victory in a vacuum

This time, rigging the election turnout was more important than rigging the vote

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

The contenders

According to the official result, confirmed by the Constitutional Council on 14 April, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 90.24% of the vote, from a 74.6% turnout. The other candidates represented different political tendencies but none of...

  • Vol 50 No 1
  •  9th January 2009

Electoral juggernaut

Bouteflika’s parliamentary allies have changed the constitution to allow him to stand for a third term and he will not face any serious electoral opposition

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