A year of protests in Algeria
An episode of the Beyond the Headlines podcast, hosted by The National News, titled "A year of protests in Algeria" was published on February 20, 2020 and runs 14 minutes.
February 20, 2020 ·14m · Beyond the Headlines
Summary
Every Friday, tens of thousands of Algerians pour on to the streets of their hometowns to protest. They protest against the government, which they see as corrupt. They protest for their future, which they see as in peril. They protest a political system they say doesn’t represent them. The scale and size of the protests vary from week to week, but without fail, they happen and they’ve been happening for exactly one year. On this edition of Beyond the Headlines, host Willy Lowry delves into Algeria’s year of change. One in which the country’s longtime president, Abdulaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign and a leaderless protest movement morphed into a serious player in Algeria’s politics.