Fifth time unlucky: Algeria’s protests
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:46.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
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| 0:59.0 | Algerians will take to the streets again today. |
| 1:02.0 | They're protesting against the re-election campaign of a president who hasn't been heard from since he had a stroke nearly six years ago. |
| 1:09.0 | Why are Algerians at last taking a stand? |
| 1:12.0 | And why is it that sometimes things actually improve when a country's head is incapacitated? |
| 1:19.0 | In Britain, knife crime is on the rise. |
| 1:22.0 | Deaths by stabbing hit an all-time high last year. |
| 1:25.0 | The causes aren't entirely clear, and the potential solutions are the subject of some debate and political discomfort. |
| 1:38.0 | First up, though. |
| 1:43.0 | In Algeria, the broad streets of the blue and white painted capital Algiers are expected to fill with protesters today. |
| 1:55.0 | Dalia Gahnum is a political analyst who was also demonstrating recently, along with her mother, her aunt, and her cousins. |
| 2:02.0 | What they are calling for is very focused, is very clear. |
| 2:06.0 | Now to the fifth term of President Adelaide's good flakka. |
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