"The France24 debate" about the revision of the constitution in Algeria with the participation of Dr. Dhina (Rachad).

ALGIERS, Algeria: Algeria's president is giving himself the constitutional right to stay in power, announcing plans Wednesday to abolish term limits that would have prevented him from seeking a third term next spring.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika said in a speech broadcast from Algeria's supreme court that he wants to bring "stability, efficiency and continuity" to the oil- and gas-rich nation, which is rattled by an Islamic insurgency with ties to al-Qaida.

Bouteflika is 71, has had serious health problems and has already served two terms — the limit under the current constitution. Critics said the move is a step away from democracy, and favors the political and military elites that have long held power in the North African country.

Khadija Mohsen-Finan, a North Africa specialist at the IFRI think tank in Paris, said the move showed that Algeria's power-brokers had agreed Bouteflika was "the best person to maintain the opacity of the current status-quo."

"They've created a political vacuum that makes any real alternative impossible," she said by phone. "Their goal seems to be simply to remain in power."

In his speech, Bouteflika said several constitutional amendments are planned — including reform of political accountability and a reorganization of power that would make the prime minister answerable to the president rather than to Parliament.

The key measure appeared to be what the president described as ending term limits in order to "give the people the freedom to chose their leaders without limiting their choices." Bouteflika said the changes would allow for a "strong, united and coherent" government and would "avoid ambivalence" in decision-making, national radio reported.

He did not explicitly announce that he would run for a third term but said the end of term limits would "allow the people to exercise their legitimate right to chose their leaders and to renew them their confidence in all sovereignty."

Limitations are not right, he said, because "the relationship between an elected leader and the citizens ... is grounded on popular choice."

Supporters credit the president for being a unifying figure who ended the decade-long civil war between the army-backed, secular-leaning government and Islamists that killed an estimated 200,000 people in the 1990s. Allies view a possible third Bouteflika term as way to maintain stability and promote economic and social reform in Algeria.

"We fully support the president's decision to let the people chose their leader freely," said Abdesselam Bouchareb, chief of staff for Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia's RND party.

"A third term will allow the consolidation of our national recovery," said Bouchareb. The RND is a key member of the presidential coalition along with Bouteflika's National Liberation Front, which has dominated the political scene since Algeria's independence from France in 1962.

Some observers had expected a move to allow Bouteflika to run again, but preferred a national referendum. Bouteflika said he would push the changes through Parliament instead — arguing that a referendum is necessary under the constitution only if the "fundamental balance of powers" is affected.

The State-run Alger Chaine 3 radio said high ranking government officials expected a parliamentary vote next month. A constitutional change would require a three-fourths majority in a combined meeting of both parliamentary chambers.

Most parties in Parliament are allied with the president and many party leaders have voiced support for Bouteflika running for a third term. Critics say a huge recent salary increase for lawmakers could smooth passage of the constitutional changes.

Moussa Touati, who heads the FNA nationalist opposition party in parliament and who plans to run for president next year, said "the legal way" to change the constitution should be through a referendum.

"And even so, most democracies have moved to a two-term presidential limit, this is a step backward," Touati told The Associated Press. "One shouldn't abuse authority to maintain oneself in power."

Mohsen-Finan said the plan to sidestep a referendum shows that governing circles knew the move is unpopular — and it would face the possibility of a large boycott.

Bouteflika became president in 1999, replacing Gen. Liamine Zeroual after a brash political campaign tarnished by fraud charges that drove his six rivals to pull out on the eve of the vote.

He was re-elected by a landslide in 2004 to serve five more years. International observers hailed that election as one of the Arab world's best, despite persistent allegations of corruption and democratic abuses.

His proposed reform would be the sixth constitutional change since independence. The current constitution took effect in 1996 after the army canceled the 1992 legislative elections that an Islamist party was poised to win.

Mercredi 01 Octobre 2008:Des pluies torrentielles se sont abattues sur la ville millénaire de Ghardaïa (600 km au sud d'Alger en Algérie) causant la mort d'au moins 200 personnes et la disparition de 48 autres ainsi que la destruction de plus de 5000 maisons. La ville est presque coupe du monde: les réseaux d'alimentation en eau potable en électricité en gaz ainsi que les réseaux téléphoniques en été partiellement a totalement détruit. Les victimes ont un besoin urgent en eau, nourriture, ainsi que d'un abris.
Major flooding hits the millenarian city of Ghardaia ( 600 km south of Algiers-Algeria) in the M'zab valley

Wednesday october 1st, 2008 : Torrential rains beat down on the millenarian city of Ghardaïa (600 km in the south from Algiers to Algeria) causing the death of at least 200 persons and 48 persons missing as well as the destruction of more than 5000 houses. The city is almost World Cut: the supply on potable water ,electricity, gas as well telecommunication networks were partly to completely destroyed. The victims have an urgent need for water food, and a shelter.

Inondations majeures dans la ville millénaire de Ghardaïa dans la vallée du Mzab(600 km au sud dAlger)

Djamel Zitouni puts a nice hit on an UAE player and receives a 2 minute penalty.

A small scrum breaks out in the Arab Cup game between Algeria and Kuwait.

Jazeera: Al-Qaida claims Algeria attacks The Associated PressPublished: August 22, 2008 CAIRO, Egypt: The pan-Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera has broadcast an audio claim of responsibility by the North African branch of...

2008北京オリンピック男子バレー世界最終予選。日本 対 アルジェリア　　 Full version of men's volleyball match on Volleyball World Final Qualification for Beijing Olympics. Japan vs Algeria, the last match for japan.

Maroc 1-1 Algerie (CHAN 2009 Q) Morocco vs Algeria. Morocco wins by penalties 3-1 and will face Libya in final round.

Algerie 1-1 Maroc CHAN 2009 qualifiers

Al jazeera inside story: At odds for decades, Morocco and Algeria have entered what some see as the fiercest arms race in North Africa in years...

Amazigh Berber Algerien Algerienne Musique Sahara Arabe Islam Musulman Allah El Watan Pays Liberte Francophone Guerre Histoire Adrar Chlef Laghouat Oum-El-Bouaghi Batna Bejaia Biskra Bechar Blida Bouira Tamanrasset Tebessa Tlemcen Tiaret...

A rare footage of the events leading to algeria independance

July 2004
Berbers in Algeria face systemic discrimination. Their language, culture and needs are being ignored by the government of Algeria.

Algérie Algeria Espoir Algérien assasiner
Mohamed Boudiaf

JJ72, Algeria

from Omar Habib... www.samiyusufonline.com ADMIN

March 1998
New evidence that the Algerian government may be manipulating the country's horrific cycle of violence. Algeria's bloody civil war has claimed 75,000 lives since the government cancelled the elections won by the Islamic fundamentalist party, the FIS, in 1992. Now a former Algerian diplomat Mohammed Larbi Zitout has defected, accusing the government of wanting to perpetuate the war, in order to maintain power and control of the country's vast oil and gas riches. Women weep at a graveside, mourning a recent night-time massacre of men, women and children. The government calls it a war between good and evil, blaming Islamic extremists for the massacres. The stories of lonely widows echo each other in every detail - nobody understands why the Islamists are killing civilians. Human Rights Advocate Selima Ghezal says Europe could do a lot. more. Moutefa Bouchachia, another Human Rights Lawyer says he believes the GIA, the radical armed Islamic group, has been infiltrated to ensure conflict continues.

Algeria, a gateway between Africa and Europe, has been battered by violence over the past half-century. The Sahara desert covers more than four-fifths of the land...

Constantine or Qusantînah (Arabic: قسنطينة ) is the capital of Constantine Province (ولاية قسنطينة) in north-east Algeria, slightly inland, at about 80 kilometers from the Mediterranean coast.
The city was originally settled by Numidian people, and was known as Sarim Batim. Later its name was Cirta, from the Phoenician word for "city". Constantine was capital city of the Numidia, a berber empire that emerged in the 3rd century BC. The city was founded in 203 BC by king Micipsa, with the help of Greek colonists. She distinguished for the splendour of the public buildings and its population overcame that of all other towns of northern Africa. It had an army of 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. In 113 BC the town was conquered by Jugurtha. Later it served as base of the Roman generals Caecilius Metellus Numidicus and Caius Marius. In 107 BC the latter gained a victory over Jugurtha in the nearby of Cirta. With the suppression of king Juba I and the rest of the supporters of Pompey in Africa (46 BC), Julius Caesar gave special civil rights to a part of Cirta, under the name of Sittlanorum Colonia. It became the head of a confederation of four similar settlements in North Africa.

In 311, during the civil war between emperor Maxentius and usurper Domitius Alexander (former governor of Africa), the city was destroyed. Rebuilt in 313, it was subsequently named after emperor Constantine the Great, who had defeated Maxentius. Conquered by the Vandals in 432, Constantine returned to the Byzantine exarchate of North Africa from 534 to 697. It was conquered by the Arabs in the 7th century, receiving the name of Qusantina.

The city recovered and in 12th century was again a prosperous market, with connection to Pisa, Genoa and Venice. Since 1529 it was intermittently part of Ottoman Empire, ruled by a Turkish bey (governor) subordinate to the dey of Algiers. Salah Bey, who ruled the city in 1770-1792, greatly embellished it and built much of the Muslim architecture still visible today.

In 1826 ,the last Bey, Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif became the new head of state and led a fierce resistance against French occupation forces. By 13 October 1837 the territory was reconquered by France, and in 1848 it was incorporated into the colony of Algiers (Algeria).

In World War II, during campaign in North Africa (1942-43), Constantine and the nearby city of Sétif were used by the Allied forces as operational bases.

Regarded as the capital of eastern Algeria, it has a population of over 500,000 (750,000 with the agglomeration) making it the third largest city in the country after Algiers and Oran. Situated in north eastern Algeria, Constantine is the centre of its region. Constantine is placed on a plateau at 640 metres above sea level. The city is framed by a deep ravine and has a dramatic appearance. The city is very picturesque with a number of bridges and a viaduct crossing the ravine. The economical base is the manufacturing of leather, wool and linen. Constantine is the centre of commercial activities and has Algeria and Tunisia as its markets. Constantine has one university, the University of Constantine, which was founded in 1969. There are museums and important historical sites around the city. Constantine can be found on the top of a gorge protecting the city on almost all sides. As so many other places in North Africa, the fortress and the city has been one and the same. Constantine got help from nature's side. The sights of today are spectacular, especially since this is a fairly big city. The gorge cutting the edges of Constantine, can be crossed by one out of four bridges, like Pont Sidi M'Cid, as on the picture. But I'm sad to report that a serious environmental scheme is needed to turn Constantine into what it should be. The gorge serves to a large extent as a dustbin, and is heavily polluted by oil as well. As for the economical side of constantine, it is the railhead of a prosperous and diverse agricultural area. Constantine is also a center of the grain trade and has flour mills, a tractor factory, and industries producing textiles and leather goods.

08/08/2007 Short clips of several artists performing and the audience at the 17th National Raï Festival in Oran, Algeri...

Oran (arabe:وهران, Wahran les deux lions), aussi appelée El Bahia (« la radieuse »), est une ville portuaire du nord-ouest de l'Algérie, chef-lieu de la wilaya du même nom sur le golfe d'Oran.

Oran est située au fond d'une baie ouverte au nord et dominée directement à l'ouest par la montagne de l'Aïdour, d'une hauteur de 375 m. L'agglomération s'étage de part et d'autre du profond ravin de l'oued Rhi, maintenant couvert.

Située à 450 km de la capitale Alger, Oran est la deuxième ville d'Algérie

Election Fraud Continues in Algeria

Day of the handing-over of the diplomas at the Algerian police academy

From mountain ranges of the Atlas to the North, to Sudan to the South, and from Egypt to the East, to the Atlantic Ocean to the West. With 8 million square kilometers, this desert is a really difficult place for any type of archaeological or scientific investigation. In 1933 an official of the mehariana policia, Brenans lieutenant, crossed in police functions the zone of the Tube of Tassili-n-Azyer and arrived at a denominated valley Ighargharen. Brenans discovered between...

The rocky walls everything an enormous painting group improbable (more than 5,000) done on the stone. Before his eyes there were representations of giraffes, gigantic elephants with the tube in stop, hipopótamos, animals and humanoides figures. But he was explorer Henri Lhote whom it presented the entire world this one finding Prehistoric Art in year 1.957. Henry Lhote classified the great amount of pictografías in twelve groups: - Beings of round head.

And horns of small size. - Devils. - Drawings of the average period with men of round head. - Men of evolved round head. - declining Period of the round heads. - Men of round head very evolved. - Period of the peace judges or terminal. - longilíneos white Men of the prebovidense period. - Hunters with corporal paintings of the old bovidense period. - bovidense Style. - Period of the cars. - Period of the mounted horses or the bitriangular men. Of all paintings most...

Amazing she is the one than one sees a species of diver with his complete suit and diving apparatus with grooves in his frontal part that reflects to have a clumsy movement giving the impression of levitar or flying tied to something by means of a long cable. To this drawing, of six meters of height, Henry Lhote the great Martian God called "". Another very interesting painting is the one that was baptized as "the fluted woman" and represents a feminine figure (that seems is floating)...


With long arms extended backwards, towing to another being put of knees and bent towards ahead with indifferent gesture to the scene, whereas another one appears leaving a strange disc. Peculiarly there are many discs made in dierentes colors and all seem to be floating. Tassili has been declared by UNESCO like Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity and for some experts it is "the Sistine Chapel of the paleolítico", with paintings that in some cases reach the 10,000 years of antiquity.

Algeria is a country in North Africa. It has a Mediterranean Sea coastline in the north. It is surrounded by Morocco to the northwest, Tunisia to the northeast, Libya to the east, Niger to the southeast, Mali to the southwest, Mauritania and Western Sahara to the west. After Sudan, Algeria is the second-largest country in Africa.

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A lovely tour through different areas of Algeria accompanied by Mami's song : Bladi hiya.

karim ziani comme vous l'avez jamais vue .........en exclusivite........une video a voir

great video ..... i hope you will enjoy it this video is my second edition

this singer reminds me so much of a very young Bob Dylan.. Here is BAAZIZ from Algerian television

Nasheed Min Djibalina.

Scenes of the ALN's (National Liberation Army) moves against French army positions.

Nachid Min Djibalina. Actions de l'ALN contre des positions de l'Armee Francaise.

lotfi double kanon et yous algeria

lotfi double kanon a la coupole-algeria

lovely algeria from nyc

This is another video of Bila Houdoud! One of Algeria's most successful comedy shows

Voici les footballeurs algeriens du moment! Il y'en a d'autres mais la chanson durait pas assez longtemps (pretexte totalement stupide). N'oubliez pas les autres joueurs, surtout les défenseurs que je n'ai pas mentionné, Beloufa, Madouni, Meniri et Yahia entre autres. Surtout nos formidable gardiens Benhamou, Gaouaoui et Hadjaoui. Dommage qu'on a tant d'individus mais pas d'équipe. Incroyables que nos clubs, tels la JSK, l'USMA, l'MCA et et l'ESS ont un si bon niveau alors que l'equipe nationale crame. C'est désolant!!

crédit: banque vidéo de dzfoot.com

Video prise d'un Mi-17 attaquant un convois terroriste pres de Ouargla avec utilisation de missiles de  guidage laser Atakka :

video of the beautiful places in algeria

As an undeclared civil war between Muslim fundamentalists and the military regime installed at independence racked Algeria in the 1990s, international and local media became a major battleground in the conflict. "L'Autre Algérie" (The Other Algeria), a television series, portrayed the complex realities of everyday life beyond the narrow local media images. "The Other Algeria project" was put up in order to promote through the media the deep problems in Algeria. Internews Europe has provided production grants plus technical and editorial support for the film "Echo des Stades" (Echo from Stadiums) and four others. Each documentary shows a more intimate and personal side of Algerian life than the typical media.

Algeria

One of The Talented Football Player in French League !!!!!!!!!!
He's Samir Nasri The New Algerian Zidane in Olympic Marseille !!!!!!!
He has Skills , Goals , Tricks , Pannas and more !!!!

Directly after soccer-Algeria's Entente Setif win Arab Champions League title

Visit this beautiful country.

zidane is real ALGERIAN

One of The Talented Football Player in French League !!!!!!!!!!
He's Samir Nasri The New Algerian Zidane in Olympic Marseille !!!!!!!
He has Skills , Goals , Tricks , Pannas and more !!!!

I just love this great song.