Thursday, December 26

Analysis : Algeria’s Aging Leader Could Spark a Belated Arab Spring

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Haaretz
Zvi Bar’el

Protesters are demanding that the 82-year-old Bouteflika step down due to his health and old age however Algeria’s longtime leader has support of army, elite and Europe.

With tens of thousands of demonstrators massing in Algiers and other cities in Algeria over the past three weeks, it’s natural to wonder whether the country that avoided the upheavals of the 2011 Arab Spring…

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