Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

A shooting inside Canada's Parliament in 2014 sparked a national debate about gun ownership

that's still intensifying. As medical professionals stage protests calling for stricter gun laws,

we examine how the discussion has similarities to the fight about guns across the border in America.

And many governments are starting to require businesses to report their gender pay gap.

How much less women are paid than men for similar work.

It's becoming clearer just how much parenthood matters to that calculation.

We have a listen to the data.

First up though.

This week, Algerians flooded into the streets to celebrate a moment that was unthinkable two months ago.

After two decades in power, 82-year-old Abdulaziz Bhutaflika resigned as the country's leader.

The news followed almost daily protests by hundreds of thousands which began in February.

Years of corruption and mismanagement have left the oil and gas rich country with a big deficit and 1.4 million people unemployed.

But it's been a long time since Mr. Bhutaflika actually led the country.

He suffered a stroke in 2013 and has been an invalid ever since.

It's a clique of military leaders and oligarchs widely known as La Poova that's really calling the shots.

Further protests are expected tomorrow, with Algerians now demanding the removal of La Poova.

On April 2, Abdulaziz Bhutaflika handed his letter of resignation to the head of the Constitutional Committee and was a rather sad scene actually.

Roger McShane is our Middle East editor.

He was formally seen Bhutaflika dressed in nice three-piece suits.

In this case, he was dressed only in a robe, sort of looked like an old man who was woken up in the middle of the night and could barely even hand a letter to the head of the Constitutional Committee.

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