Noureddine Bedoui
Algeria protests Algeria’s army chief orders crackdown against protesters opposing presidential elections in December

Interim Algerian president Abdelkader Bensalah has announced the next round of presidential elections, scheduled for December 12. Any such plan is being strongly rejected by the protesters, till the old members of the previous Bouteflika regime are completely removed from positions of power in the country.

Faced with people’s wrath, Algeria’s interim president calls for polls on July 4

Abdelkader Bensalah, the speaker of the upper house of parliament, was declared interim president following the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The decision was greeted with massive protests as people demanded the dismantling of the entire regime