ALGIERS: Algerian President Abelmadjid Tebboune has set June 12 for early legislative elections, the presidency said on Thursday, after announcing the dissolution of the lower house of parliament last month.
The vote is part of political reforms promised by Tebboune following mass protests that forced his predecessor, Abelaziz Bouteflika, to resign in 2019 after two decades in power.
Algerians in November last year voted for amendments to the constitution giving more powers to the prime minister and parliament, despite low voter turnout.
Bouteflika’s allies had an overwhelming majority in the dissolved lower house which was elected in May 2017 for five years.
Elected in December 2019, Tebboune has vowed to implement political and economic changes in a bid to put an end to the protest movement which demanded the departure of the whole ruling elite.
Last month he ordered the release of 59 detainees of the protest movement knows as Hirak in an apparent bid to stop the protests that first broke out on Feb. 22, 2019.
But demonstrations resumed three weeks ago after a halt caused by a coronavirus lockdown imposed by the government in March 2020.
Algerian president sets June 12 for early legislative elections
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Algerian president sets June 12 for early legislative elections
- Algerians in November last year voted for amendments to the constitution giving more powers to the PM and parliament
- Bouteflika’s allies had a majority in the dissolved lower house which was elected in May 2017 for five years
Drone attack by paramilitary group in Sudan kills 24, including 8 children, doctors’ group says
- Saturday’s attack by RSF occurred close to the city of Rahad in North Kordofan province, said the Sudan Doctors Network
- The vehicle was transporting displaced people who fled fighting in the Dubeiker area
CAIRO: A drone attack by a notorious paramilitary group hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors’ group said, a day after a World Food Program aid convoy was targeted.
Saturday’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces occurred close to the city of Rahad in North Kordofan province, said the Sudan Doctors Network, which tracks the country’s ongoing war.
The vehicle was transporting displaced people who fled fighting in the Dubeiker area, the group said in a statement. Among the dead children were two infants.
Several others were wounded and taken for treatment in Rahad, which suffers severe medical supplies shortages, like many areas in the Kordofan region, the statement said.
The doctors’ group urged the international community and rights organizations to “take immediate action to protect civilians and hold the RSF leadership directly accountable for these violations.”
There was no immediate comment from the RSF, which has been at war against the Sudanese military for control of the country for about three years.
Sudan plunged into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle between the military and the RSF exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country, leaving tens of thousands dead and millions displaced.
