{"id":119459,"date":"2020-11-17T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahara-occidental.net\/2020\/11\/may-algerie-monthly-situation-report-1-4\/"},"modified":"2020-11-17T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:25:00","slug":"may-algerie-monthly-situation-report-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/may-algerie-monthly-situation-report-1-4\/","title":{"rendered":"May Algerie monthly situation report (1\/4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ALGERIA MONTHLY SITUATION REPORT<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Executive Summary<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n

<\/span>Political Trends<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n

\u00b7     <\/span><\/span><\/span>Almost a month after he was airlifted to Paris for treatment following a \u201cminor stroke\u201d, there has been no sign of President Bouteflika and speculation as to his condition is rising to fever pitch.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Bouteflika’s health problems come just as he had made up his mind to run for a fourth successive term of office next year. <\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Concordant sources suggest that one of the main aims of the corruption investigations, which are being driven by the DRS, is to prevent Bouteflika from running for a fourth term<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7     <\/span><\/span><\/span>The question of the fourth term may have been laid to rest by the President’s health problems; paradoxically, the situation may become more complicated if Bouteflika were to make a full recovery and return in fighting form .<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Foreign Relations<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n

\u00b7     <\/span><\/span><\/span>Interior Minister Ould Kablia has announced new security measures along the border with Morocco, and complained bitterly of the Moroccan authorities’ lack of cooperation in combatting smuggling.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Inclined for domestic political reasons to talk up problems on the border with Morocco, Ould Kablia has tended to downplay far greater threats on Algeria’s eastern borders.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7      <\/span><\/span><\/span>As they move against jihadist groups in the mountains along the border with Algeria, the Tunisian authorities are appealing for ever greater military assistance from the Algerians<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7     <\/span><\/span><\/span>A Tunisian security official draws a pessimistic prognosis for the situation in Tunisia, which is compared to Algeria in the early ’90s.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Security<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n

\u00b7     <\/span><\/span><\/span>Jihadist activity nationwide accelerated markedly in April and early May, with security operations lagging somewhat behind them. There were no incidents in Algiers, however.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7      <\/span><\/span><\/span>A convoy of Italian expatriate workers has been ambushed in north-west Algeria in what may have been a kidnapping attempt, although none were taken hostage or wounded.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Repeated acts of car-jacking and brigandry in the Hassi Messaoud area indicate that security is still not optimal around Algeria’s oldest oil hub<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b7     <\/span><\/span><\/span>There have been a number of incursions in the south-eastern oil province of Illizi by small groups of armed men from Libya, including one near In Amenas, and a failed attack on a security  forces convoy transporting jihadist prisoners in the same province.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  ALGERIA MONTHLY SITUATION REPORT Executive Summary Political Trends \u00b7     Almost a month after he was airlifted to Paris for treatment following a \u201cminor stroke\u201d, there has been no sign of President Bouteflika and speculation as to his condition is rising to fever pitch. \u00b7      Bouteflika’s health problems come just as he had made up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-119459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-western-sahara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xnalgrt.cluster100.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}