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Algeria has known many empires and dynasties starting with the ancient Numidians (3rd century B.C.), Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, over a dozen different Arab and Berber dynasties, Spaniards, and Ottoman Turks. It was under the latter that the Barbary pirates operated from North Africa and preyed on shipping beginning in roughly 1500, peaking in the early to mid-17th century, until finally subdued by the French capture of Algiers in 1830. The French southward conquest of the entirety of Algeria proceeded throughout the 19th century and was marked by many atrocities. The country was heavily colonized by the French in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A bloody eight-year struggle culminated in Algerian independence in 1962. Algeria’s primary political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), was established in 1954 as part of the struggle for independence and has since largely dominated politics. The Government of Algeria in 1988 instituted a multi-party system in response to public unrest, but the surprising first round success of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the December 1991 legislative elections led the Algerian army to intervene and postpone the second round of elections to prevent what the secular elite feared would be an extremist-led government from assuming power. The army began a crackdown on the FIS that spurred FIS supporters to begin attacking government targets. Fighting escalated into an insurgency, which saw intense violence from 1992-98, resulting in over 100,000 deaths - many attributed to indiscriminate massacres of villagers by extremists. The government gained the upper hand by the late-1990s, and FIS’s armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army, disbanded in January 2000. Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA, with the backing of the military, won the presidency in 1999 in an election that was boycotted by several candidates protesting alleged fraud, and won subsequent elections in 2004, 2009, and 2014. The government in 2011 introduced some political reforms in response to the Arab Spring, including lifting the 19-year-old state of emergency restrictions and increasing women’s quotas for elected assemblies, while also increasing subsidies to the populace. Since 2014, Algeria’s reliance on hydrocarbon revenues to fund the government and finance the large subsidies for the population has fallen under stress because of declining oil prices. Protests broke out across the country in late February 2019 against President BOUTEFLIKA’s decision to seek a fifth term. BOUTEFLIKA resigned on 2 April 2019, and the speaker of the upper house of parliament, Abdelkader BENSALAH, became interim head of state on 9 April. BENSALAH remained in office beyond the 90-day constitutional limit until Algerians elected former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid TEBBOUNE as the country’s new president in December 2019.
Source:
World Factbook
2020
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Algeria map (World Factbook)
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Algeria
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Algeria map (World Factbook, modified)
People Groups
Algerian, Arabic-speaking
Arab, Egyptian
Arab, Iraqi
Bedouin, Dui-Menia
Bedouin, Laguat
Bedouin, Nail
Bedouin, Ruarha
Bedouin, Sidi
Bedouin, Suafa
Bedouin, Tajakant
Bedouin, Ziban
Belbali
Berber, Figig
Berber, Imazighen
Berber, Kabyle
Berber, Menasser
Berber, Mozabite
Berber, Rif
Berber, Shawiya
Berber, Southern Shilha
Berber, Taznatit
Berber, Tidikelt Tamzight
Berber, Tougourt
British
Chenoua
Chinese, general
Deaf
French
Hausa
Idaksahak
Jew, French
Moroccan, Arabic-speaking
Ouargla
Romani, Balkan
Saharawi
Spaniard
Tuareg, Algerian
Tuareg, Tahaggart
Turk
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Algeria (Prayercast)
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Algeria (Operation World)
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Algeria (World Factbook website)
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Algeria (WorldBank)
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 September, 2020.
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