Algeria

Algeria is a country in northern Africa with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea along the north and bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan border is closed). The country is formally named The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

Algerians burn city hall over housing shortage
ALGIERS, Dec 21, 2004 (Reuters) - Rioting youths set fire to a city hall in a town in northern Algeria on Monday in the latest protests over a housing shortage, residents said. Security forces used tear gas to disperse about 200 people who hurled stones at anti-riot police in Bou Saada, a town some 200 km (125 miles) southeast of the capital Algiers, a local journalist said.

Anarchist Approaches to Anti-Colonial Struggles: French Anarchists and the Algerian War
The Algerian War had a particularly significant impact on French anarchists and colonial French society in general. As Boulouque describes in the initial chapters of Les camarades des frères, Algeria wasn't simply administered and exploited by a French bureaucracy and army. Approximately 1,000,000 French colonials had settled in Algeria by the time guerrilla units of the Front de libération nationale (FLN) attacked French military posts and police stations in the early morning of November 1st, 1954. Moreover, the impoverishment of Arab and Muslim Algerians under colonial rule forced thousands to migrate to the metropolis where they were exploited in French factories, and interacted with French workers. Thus, the distance—geographic and moral—between the colonized and their colonizers was substantially less than during Indochina's anti-colonial war. Indeed the war was ultimately fought not only in the Algerian maquis (brush-land), but in French settlers' quarters in Algeria and in French cafés in the metropolis.

Insurrection continues in Algeria
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria, March 31, 2004 (Reuters) - Youths clashed with riot police in Algeria's volatile Berber region of Kabylie on Wednesday as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika paid a rare election campaign visit. About 100 demonstrators burned tyres and threw rocks at riot police who responded with tear gas and water cannons. At least a dozen people were detained, witnesses said. There were no reports of injuries.

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