The weekly protests have become a key means of keeping up pressure on the regime
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Since his resignation in April, several officials and businessmen close to him have been sacked or questioned over alleged graft.
Tensions have been high in the town since authorities granted the company the right to exploit and bottle the area’s spring water.
News of the investigation against him adds to the arrests this week on graft charges of four tycoons
More than one-quarter of people under 25 are unemployed, and many Algerians work in the country’s vast informal sector.
Algerian media has reported around a dozen businessmen are under investigation, all with ties to Bouteflika’s entourage.
State television announced the sacking of the governor, and the dismissal of five others from the country’s 48 provinces
Prosecutors are investigating “insider influence to obtain undue advantages and misappropriation of real estate”.
Activists chalked up a second victory Tuesday as one of the three, constitutional council chief Tayeb Belaiz, followed Bouteflika to the exit
We will continue to march until a transitional (authority) led by clean politicians is set up – Demonstrator