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Algeria
Population: 36.1 mn.
GDP: $158 bn.
Debt: $4.7 bn.
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Localised protests will continue as the government attempts conciliation. Public expenditure could rise by 25% or more in consequence. Meaningful reforms ahead of May's parliamentary elections are unlikely. 

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  • Vol 44 No 10
  •  16th May 2003

Domestic politics at last

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 5 May decision to end months of political sniping by sacking his former campaign manager turned political rival, Ali Benflis, has allowed Algerians to refocus on domestic politics in the run-up to the presidential election...

  • Vol 44 No 7
  •  4th April 2003

Boom to bust

The collapse of Abdelmoumen Rafik Khalifa's El Khalifa Group (EKG) has seen investors mobbing banks in search of their savings, French intelligence leaks about power brokers' roles in EKG's rise - plus a local aviation crisis.

  • Vol 44 No 5
  •  7th March 2003

Minister in peril

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika basks in the glow of an unprecedented visit from French President Jacques Chirac, welcomed as a hero on 2-4 March after his standoff with the United States over Iraq. Meanwhile, Boutef's friend and high-profile Energy and Mi...

  • Vol 43 No 14
  •  12th July 2002

Bouteflika digs in

The President is pleased with the polls but hasn't yet won the war

  • Vol 43 No 11
  •  31st May 2002

Fixing it up

The Islamist vote at the legislative elections on 30 May will show whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has really transformed Algerian politics. Until the last minute, many electors were still debating whether to vote: a high abstention rate could only...

  • Vol 43 No 6
  •  22nd March 2002

Algeria's growing military machine

Algeria's progress against the Islamist underground was confirmed by the killing last month of Antar Zouabri, the leader of the Groupe Islamique Armé. This was a coup for the ambitious commander of the First Military Region, General Fodil Cherif, a...

  • Vol 43 No 2
  •  25th January 2002

L'arbitraire

In a watershed vote on 15 January, the French parliament declared 19 March a day of commemoration of the victims of the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian independence struggles. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, fresh from courting the United States for milit...

  • Vol 42 No 23
  •  23rd November 2001

Sweeping away

Floods made large parts of Algiers a sea of mud on 10 November. They were a nightmare for ordinary citizens, many of whom dug out neighbours with their bare hands - and for Algeria's leaders, who again seemed incapable of responding adequately to crisis.

  • Vol 42 No 12
  •  15th June 2001

One musketeer

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has again threatened to resign as Kabyle protests mobilise hundreds of thousands of demonstrators and rival power-brokers enfeeble his presidency.

  • Vol 42 No 10
  •  18th May 2001

The old-timers

Brutality against Kabyle protesters and retired generals cause problems for Boutef

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