Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 12/29/2003
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of December 29, 2003
- Call for pan conference for National Liberation Front in Algeria
The "Correctionist Movement" in the National Liberation Front in Algeria said it will hold its conference for this year during the few coming weeks, after it had extended an invitation to the secretary general of the party, Ali Benflis, to convene a general conference for the party, in order to eliminate the current crisis following the decision by the government to freeze activities of the party. Algeria, Politics, 1/2/2004 - Benflis: Butaflika is abusing authority regarding the freeze of liberation front activities
Benflis said that this decision once again reveals that nothing prevents the "'candidate' President Abdul Aziz Butaflika in his hunger for power." He described the decision as unprecedented violation of the independence of the judiciary. Algeria, Politics, 12/31/2003 - Two policemen killed in Algiers
Two Algerian policemen were killed in Algiers on Monday, while carrying out their guarding mission in the downtown of Algiers. They were attacked by men rising a car. Algeria, Local, 12/31/2003