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...
Opposition force El Hirak (The Movement) which led the protests that toppled then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2019 will take some convincing that Tebboune is the agent of change they are seeking...
Ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's long infirmity is being cited as the precedent to avoid...
Supporters of President Abdelmajid Tebboune backed by army Chief of Staff Major General Saïd Chengriha have presided over the crushing of the oligarch culture that thrived under Abdelaziz Bouteflika forced out of office by popular protests in April 2019...
President Abdelmajid Tebboune's government is emerging from the coronavirus crisis financially much poorer but more politically secure as the lockdown has given the post-Abdelaziz Bouteflika regime opportunities to entrench itself while fighting the disease (AC Vol 61 No 2 Desperately seeking legitimacy)...
He will have to prove that what in 2017 seemed like a bold anti-corruption campaign targeting the Bouteflika clan wasn't just evidence of Gaïd Salah driving elite in-fighting to a new level which eventually drove Abdelaziz Bouteflika from office (AC Vol 58 No 17 The state stays captured)...
