FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Algerian papers mark two-year anniversary of Hirak protest movement” – below is their description.
IN THE PRESS – Monday, February 22, 2021: “Not dead. Simply dormant.” That’s how one editorialist describes Algeria’s Hirak protests, two years after the demonstrations first erupted to oust then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. In the US, papers struggle to visualise the country’s coronavirus death toll which is now at nearly 500,000. We also look at a poll finding that over half of Republican voters feel more loyal to Donald Trump individually than to the party as a whole. Finally, a 21-year-old from the UK becomes the youngest woman to row across an ocean!
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In This Story: Algeria
Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa.
Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.
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