Bashir Bu Ma'aza expected to head Algerian Umma council

There are increasing expectations that Bashir Bu Ma'aza will be nominated to head the Umma Council, which means that he would replace Algerian President Liamine Zeroual, should the president resign or become too ill to do his job, according to the Algerian constitution.

Meanwhile, the Algerian people buried 21 victims (11 women, 7 children, and 3 old men) of a massacre in the village of Abu Moussa in Al Medea Province at the beginning of this week.

Eyewitnesses said that the attackers stormed the village at midnight and killed 21 persons belonging to 3 families. After the massacre, the terrorists burnt the bodies of the 7 children, 1 child and two girls narrowly escaped the massacre after they ran into the jungle near to the village.