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Algeria

Protesters demonstrate in Algiers, carrying signs which read: “I am optimistic about my Algeria” and “Me, too”. January 17. (AP)

Protests go on in Algiers even as president pledges reform

Algeria

Celebrating identity. Algerian Berber women prepare couscous as they mark the Yennayer New Year in the village of Ait el-Kecem, south of Tizi-Ouzou, east of Algiers. (AFP)

Celebration of Amazigh new year reflects Algeria’s diversity but also stark contradictions

Algeria

Newly elected President Abdelmadjid Tebboune addresses a news conference in Algiers, Algeria, December 13, 2019. (Reuters)

Lack of popular legitimacy complicates task of Algerian government

Algeria

Algerian riot police vehicles are lined up on both sides of a main street where anti-government protests are taking place, in Algiers, January 10. (AFP)

Algeria releases four jailed activists, to ban ‘hate speech’

Algeria

Pressing for reforms. Algerians chant slogans during an anti-government demonstration in the centre of Algiers, January 10.(AFP)

Algerians keep up protests against ruling elites but crowds dwindle

Algeria

Algerian demonstrators carry a national flag during an anti-government rally in Algiers, January 3. (Reuters)

New civilian, military leaderships in Algeria but old obsession with plots

Morocco

Crowded skies. Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jets perform during the MAKS-2019 International Aviation and Space Show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, last August. (AP)

Arms race between Morocco and Algeria intensifies

Algeria

Algerian protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration in Algiers, January 3. (AFP)

New government formed in Algeria

Morocco

Lebanese anti-government protesters wave their national flag during a demonstration in Beirut, December 1. (AFP)

A Moroccan perspective on protest movements in the Arab world