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Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation

Dec 6, 2019, 7 tweets

Mass protests are taking place in the streets of #Algeria 🇩🇿 with the #12Dec elections less than a week away.

According to the protesters these elections are just a way for the corrupt established regime to legitimize itself.

#Algeria 🇩🇿: protesters in #Bejaia (#Kabylie) singing the national anthem at the pro-democracy protest today

"Pouvoir assassin, pouvoir assassin, pouvoir assassin, assassin, assassin"

Bejaia, #Algeria 🇩🇿 today

After 42 weeks protests in #Algeria 🇩🇿 show zero sign of dying down or losing energy.

The old regime clearly hope the movement would just fade out, they were wrong.

#Algeria 🇩🇿: the masses out in the streets of #Algiers calling for democracy and an end to military rule.

According to some activists these were the biggest protests since March

#Algeria 🇩🇿: pro-democracy protest in the city of #Setif today.
#الجمعة_42

#Algeria 🇩🇿: mass pro-democracy protests in #Oran, thw country's second largest city.

#الجمعة_42

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