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Lakhdar Benchiba

Journalist (Algiers).

These Corruption Cases That Are Splashing Algerian Power Lakhdar Benchiba · March 2018 As strikes by doctors and teachers spread, the Algerian government doesn’t seem capable of overcoming the protest. Its rhetoric is all the more inaudible as the proliferation of corruption cases is splashing through the top circles.
In the face of the current social movements (postgraduate (…)
Algeria Is Losing Ground in Africa Lakhdar Benchiba · March 2017 On January 30, 2017, a majority of African countries voted to allow Morocco back into the African Union despite Algerian (and South African) opposition over the question of Western Sahara. The diplomatic ties which Algeria owed to the prestige of its war of independence are gradually distending (…)