Low Turnout Expected in Algerian Elections
Pre-emptive violence and al-Qaida's influence may cause lower polling numbers among the 18.8 million registered voters in Algeria's parliamentary elections Thursday, the day after two explosions in Constantine killed one person and injured several others.
Pre-emptive violence and al-Qaida’s influence may cause lower polling numbers among the 18.8 million registered voters in Algeria’s parliamentary elections Thursday, the day after two explosions in Constantine killed one person and injured several others.
Your support matters…Al Jazeera English:
Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, the interior minister, said that turnout at 2pm was 19.5 per cent – far below the 28.2 per cent recorded in the last legislative election in 2002.
Wednesday’s explosions in the eastern city of Constantine continued the violent run-up to the vote after three suicide bomb attacks killed 33 people in the capital, Algiers, on April 11.
A police officer was killed and five other people were injured in the country’s third-biggest city, Constantine, 48 hours after al-Qaeda called on Algerians to boycott the polls en masse.
Independent journalism is under threat and overshadowed by heavily funded mainstream media.
You can help level the playing field. Become a member.
Your tax-deductible contribution keeps us digging beneath the headlines to give you thought-provoking, investigative reporting and analysis that unearths what's really happening- without compromise.
Give today to support our courageous, independent journalists.
Media
Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir called the order "an assault on freedom of the press."
The philosopher and linguist reflects on his seminal work, "Manufacturing Consent," and the sinister new ways we are sold to advertisers.
The harder it becomes for Israel to sell its apartheid state, the more pronounced its already massive interference will become.
The social media network wants you to know if you’re getting your news from the wrong government.
Ava Winstanley of Electronic Intifada examines how the Netanyahu government silences critical voices in the United Kingdom and beyond.
The congresswoman's tweets may have been indelicate, but that doesn't make her criticism of organizations like AIPAC any less true.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.