Algeria forms new government
Algeria (MNN) The North African country of Algeria has
formed a new government. However, many of the same people from the old government still hold positions of power.
Algeria continues to suffer an economic crisis, with high rates of unemployment and poverty. Mass protests in 2019 forced the previous president to
But George Makeen of
SAT-7 says Algerians want more. “They want more freedom and more democracy: real change. And they see that didn’t happen yet. This is why, every now and then, there are lots of demonstrations. People are still in the street. The movement is still very powerful. And (Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune) although he says, ‘I’m totally for democracy,’ he used the COVID-19 situation in a way to control people.”
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The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed displeasure over a series of recent court decisions that seek to limit the religious rights of Christians in the North African country of Algeria.
USCIRF’s concern, expressed via a press release in late June, was made public after three separate court rulings against Christians in the majority Muslim country.
In March, Hamid Soudad, a 42-year-old Christian accused of insulting the prophet Mohammad, had a five-year prison sentence against him upheld by the Oran City Court of Justice. On June 6, Rachid Mohamed Seighir, pastor and bookstore owner, was sentenced to one year in prison by a court in Oran for “printing, storing or distributing materials” considered damaging to the Muslim faith. And an administrative court in Oran separately ordered that three Protestant churches that had been forcibly closed by the government in 2020 be sea