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Algeria s powerful army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah dies
Salah, a veteran of the Algerian war of independence with France, masterminded the state s response to mass protests this year
Ahmed Gaid Salah pushed for December elections despite mass opposition from anti-government protesters (Reuters) Par Published date: Lundi 23 décembre 2019 - 10:00 | Last update: 1 année 3 mois ago
Algeria s powerful army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah has died, leaving behind a country wracked by months of protests over the military s dominant role in politics.
State media reported on Monday that Gaid Salah, who masterminded the state s response to mass protests this year, died at the age of 79 after suffering a heart attack at a military hospital in the capital Algiers.
Modern Diplomacy
If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled by the challenges Middle Eastern states face in enacting economic and social reforms as well as reducing their dependence on energy exports against the backdrop of a global economic crisis and depressed oil prices and energy markets. Complicating the challenges is the fact that youth that often constitutes a majority of the population have lost or are losing confidence in government and religious establishments at a time that social contracts are being unilaterally rewritten by political elites.