Algeria’s political crisis deepens after President Bouteflika rejected protesters’ demands to step down at the end of his term
Algeria’s political crisis deepened after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika rejected protesters’ demands to step down at the end of his term, as demonstrators again poured into the streets Monday and promised to extend protests that have convulsed the nation.
Throngs of protesters appeared in Algerian cities Sunday night and into Monday, in the country’s most sustained series of demonstrations since popular uprisings spread across the Arab world in 2011. Mr. Bouteflika survived eight years ago when other Arab dictators fell by...
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