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Algerian city employees install Algerian flags and President’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika poster on the streets ahead of the parliamentary election in Algiers, Algeria April 26, 2017. (Reuters)

Ruling Party Wins Majority in Algerian Parliamentary Elections

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 5, 2017 | Middle East

The ruling party in Algeria, the National Liberation Front (FLN), won on Friday a majority in the North African country’s parliamentary elections that were marked by general apathy by the people. Turnout was only 38.25 percent, lower than 43 percent in the last...

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A woman carries her son to cast her vote at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Algiers, Algeria May 4, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Algerian Government Satisfied with Voter Turnout

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 5, 2017 | Middle East

Algeria- Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Bedoui has expressed satisfaction with the parliamentary elections turnout, but leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) Louisa Hanoune stated that participation was low. During a news conference, Bedoui said that the...

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April 20, 2015: People queue to fill containers with water amid an acute shortage of clean drinking water in Sana’a. Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters

Bloody Struggle among Comrades in Aden

by Mounir al-Manawri | Feb 1, 2017 | Middle East

Washington- CIA archive declassified documents on People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, previously known as South Yemen in the seventies and eighties of the past century. Any researcher specialized in Yemeni affairs will come to realize that this region was...

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Indigenous Sahrawi people react during the funeral of Western Sahara’s Polisario Front leader Mohamed Abdelaziz in Tindouf, Algeria June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Balkhadim Seeks to Return to National Liberation Front Leadership

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2016 | Middle East

Algeria-Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Balkhadim broke his two-year silence, since leaving the National Liberation Front (FLN), to urge the party’s supporters to rescue it “from division, disunion and discord.” The recent development follows a debate in Algeria on the...

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A file photo dated 08 May 2012 shows Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika attending a ceremony to mark the 67th anniversary of the Setif massacre, in Setif, Algeria. (EPA/Mohamed Messara)

Algeria’s Bouteflika to seek fourth term in April

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 23, 2014 | Middle East

Algiers, Reuters—Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the aging independence veteran who suffered a stroke last year, will run in April’s election, the government said on Saturday, in a vote likely to hand him a fourth term in power. Prime Minister...