As many as 800,000 people gathered in Algiers, Algeria, on March 1 to protest the announcement that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in power since 1999, was running for a fifth term.
On March 11, Bouteflika announced he would not seek a fifth term, but, as of press time, no successor had been named. Since suffering a stroke in 2013, Bouteflika had not been seen or heard in public until he announced he was stepping down. After that announcement, protests continued, with...
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