El Hirak (The Movement) whose actions in 2019 removed ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika – to be replaced by the more populist Abdelmadjid Tebboune by le pouvoir (the ‘Powers-that-be') – remains cowed...

The most telling number was the turnout of 24% far lower than in 2019 when 40% participated in the first poll following President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's overthrow...

The eco-system of organisations set up by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2002 has fallen into disrepair...

The project was repeatedly delayed during Abdelaziz Bouteflika's presidency by political squabbles funding and governance issues...

As cross-border tensions have ratcheted up Chengriha has left civilian government to Tebboune while he concentrates on clearing the military ranks and wider 'pouvoir' (powers-that-be) of potential rivals from formerly dominant factions led by Gaïd Salah and Abdelaziz Bouteflika (AC Vol 63 No 2 Living in limboland)...

' Business however is booming in the prison system where former grandees and cronies of the late Abdelaziz Bouteflika's regime continue to receive long sentences...

Popular unrest decided le pouvoir (the powers-that-be) in favour of overseeing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's removal and throwing his kleptocratic clan to the wolves but it has held on to the model of military/security-led rule...

Direction Générale de la Surêté Nationale (DGSN) police deployments and arrests are at a level the authorities didn't dare as the Hirak mobilised tens of thousands from February 2019 to remove president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and then pressure the authorities for change (AC Vol 62 No 1 In intensive care & AC Vol 61 No 20 Which way is Tebboune facing...

Security forces scurried to secure Algiers' Grande Poste – the protestors' traditional rallying point – and town centres across Algeria as El Hirak returned to the streets to celebrate the second anniversary of the uprising that removed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on 22 February 2019...