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Vol 61 No 13

Published 25th June 2020


Algeria

Locking down the system

The elite is using the pandemic to consolidate its position while the grass-roots opposition struggles to regain traction

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.

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