Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 10/6/2003
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of October 6, 2003
- Human rights organizations urge Butaflika to re-try a political activist
The spokesman for the Arab committee for human rights, Haitham Manaa, has warned against the deterioration of the health conditions of the Algerian activist in the area of human rights, Salah Seidhum. Algeria, Politics, 10/10/2003 - King Mohammed pays tribute to French president as a 'committed' statesman
Morocco's King Mohammed VI paid tribute this Thursday to visiting French president, Jacques Chirac, as "committed head of state," "a man of conviction" and to France "the homeland of the Declaration of the rights of man and citizen." Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/10/2003 - French president hails Morocco's 'bold and exemplary political transition' Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/10/2003
- Algerian army kills 33 armed Islamists
The Algerian army said it killed during the past weeks some 33 armed Islamists in operations in the nearby mountainous areas to Steif region, 300 Km to the east of the capital Algiers. Algeria, Local, 10/10/2003 - Butaflika receives General al-Kharoubi Algeria-Libya, Politics, 10/10/2003
- Benflis: I work for reforms and democracy; 7 new ministers
The final seperation was made reality between the Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika and the former prime minister, secretary general of the ruling National Liberation Front, Ali Benflis, and the country has entered an unprecedented constitutional and political crisis, after the Front had announced the nomination of Benflis for the next presidential elections, in an extraordinary conference. Algeria, Politics, 10/6/2003