TJF posts in the category: Algeria

October 05, 2005

Thinking about Algeria

The NYT's Michael Slackman was in Algeria last week covering the referendum on the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation. (See his coverage here and here. See previous TJF discussion of the CPNR proposal here.) In today's NYT, Slackman has...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:04 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

August 25, 2005

Amnesty proposal in Algeria

On August 14, Algerian President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika spoke to the parliament about his plans for the long-expected amnesty there. Here is the French-language account, from the semi-official daily El-Watan, of his remarks. Here is a quick (and far from perfect)...
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