Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 1/12/2004
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of January 12, 2004
- Abbasi calls for halting fighting and postponing elections in Algeria
Leader of the Islamic Front for Salvation, Abbas Madani, yesterday extended a general call for halting the bloodshed in Algeria as from the beginning of Eid al-Adha (holiday), by the beginning of February, in the first procedural step for an initiative which he described as a "national people initiative" to solve the crisis in the country. Algeria, Politics, 1/16/2004 - Abbasi Madani declares his initiative to solve the Algerian crisis today
The leader of the banned Islamic front for Salvation, Sheikh Abbasi Madani, said he will disclose today in the Qatari capital Doha his initiative which he had declared by the end of last year to solve the Algerian crisis that provides an "outlet" to put an end to the political conflict in Algeria. Algeria, Politics, 1/15/2004 - Qathafi - Algerian president phone talks on Maghreb unity Libya-Algeria, Politics, 1/13/2004
- Algeria: presidential candidates want to prevent government fraudulent in the elections
A source at one of the candidates for the presidential elections in Algeria, to be held in April, said that the candidates for the elections who intend to be nominated, and have been meeting since Sunday, are preparing a memorandum on fraud in the elections. Algeria, Politics, 1/13/2004 - Le Quotidien d'Oran: Algeria failed to set up equity and reconciliation commission
Algerian paper Le Quotidien d'Oran regretted in a column published this Saturday that Algeria did not set up an Equity and Reconciliation Commission and that it was Morocco that took the initiative. Algeria, Politics, 1/12/2004