#Abdelmadjid Tebboune

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During a speech in Constantine, Algeria, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared his country's readiness to assist Gaza amidst ongoing genocide. On the fourth day of his electoral campaign, Tebboune stated, "We will not abandon Palestine in general, nor Gaza in particular," adding, "I swear to you by God, if they help us and open the borders between Egypt and Gaza... there is something we can do."

He continued, "I made a promise... and the army is ready. As soon as the borders are opened and our trucks are allowed to enter, we will build 3 hospitals within 20 days, send hundreds of doctors, and help in rebuilding what the Zionists have destroyed."

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Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik meeting Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algeria, 14 April 2024

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Tebboune wins Algeria’s presidential election

Algerian authorities declared President Abdelmadjid Tebboune the winner of Saturday’s election, with less than half of registered voters casting ballots.

Official preliminary results gave Tebboune 95 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a second round. Abdelaâli Hassani Cherif won 3 per cent and Youcef Aouchiche secured 2 per cent. The turnout reached 48 per cent.

However, late Sunday night, candidates including Tebboune and Cherif issued a joint statement objecting to the preliminary results announced by the electoral commission.

We inform public opinion of the ambiguity, contradiction, vagueness and conflicting numbers recorded with the announcement of the provisional results of the presidential elections.

If Tebboune continues to rule, the government is likely to continue its generous social spending programme. The president also pledged to increase unemployment benefits, pensions, and public housing programmes.

Meanwhile, Algeria’s aspirations to join the BRICS group when it expanded in January were derailed. Instead, the bloc invited Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates to join. Instead, Algeria joined the BRICS development bank last month.

Algeria’s efforts to secure greater stability in Africa’s Sahel region also collapsed, with an attempt to mediate between rival forces in Niger after last year’s coup failing.

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Agence Ecofin: Algérie - Russie - BRICS / Ecofin Agency: Algeria - Russia - BRICS

Agence Ecofin: Algérie – Russie – BRICS / Ecofin Agency: Algeria – Russia – BRICS Agence Ecofin: La Russie soutient la demande d’adhésion de l’Algérie aux BRICS / Ecofin Agency: Russia supports Algeria’s BRICS membership application L’Algérie avait officiellement déposé une demande d’adhésion au groupe des BRICS. Après la Chine, la Russie a exprimé son appui à cette demande qui intervient dans…

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abdelmadjid tebboune aadl

The Affordable Housing Development Agency (AADL) in Algeria has seen remarkable progress under the leadership of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. His commitment to providing affordable housing solutions has significantly impacted the country's housing sector.------------------ More

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Turkey has filed a case against Israel in the International Criminal Court.

For their ongoing genocide of the Palestinians.

"Today... we have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court in The Hague against the Hitler of the 21st century of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who must stand trial for the genocide he committed in the Gaza Strip and all crimes against humanity."

And it's not just Turkey.

Algeria has filed a case against Israel with the International Criminal Court.

With their president Abdelmadjid Tebboune saying "Where is humanity? And where is the global conscience that has become absent regarding the genocide being committed?”

Algeria's case is being backed by Colombia.

3 Palestinian organisations Al-Haq, al-Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights are filing their own case against Israel in the International Criminal Court.

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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take action to hold Israel accountable for the crimes it is committing against Palestinians in Gaza. Tebboune expressed his concerns regarding the state of justice worldwide and the rights of oppressed peoples, with a specific mention of the Palestinian people. He stated that in Palestine under occupation, all human, moral, religious, and legal standards and values have crumbled due to the brutal massacres carried out by the occupying forces against the Palestinian people. These atrocities are witnessed daily by the world, yet there is a terrible global silence. Additionally, there is an unjust and strict siege that violates the principles of international humanitarian law, yet the conscience of the world remains unmoved by these massacres and the siege. Tebboune asked: “Where is humanity? And where is the global conscience that has become absent regarding the genocide being committed?”

7 Nov 23

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[ 📹 Scenes of carnage and tragedy, resulting in outrage, following the recent Zionist airstrike targeting the al-Hanoud family home, sheltering a displaced family in Rafah City, in the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip, killing 7 Palestinian civilians, including at least 4 children.]

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MASS MURDER OF PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS CONTINUES ON THE 195TH DAY OF "ISRAEL'S" ONGOING GENOCIDE

On the 195th day of "Israel's" special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 7 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 71 civilians, mostly women and children, while another 106 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

In a small bit of positive news amongst the horrors of Gaza, Algeria has announced it would be donating $15 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA).

The announcement was made by Algeria's Foreign Minister, Ahmed Attaf, who stated that Algeria was making an "exceptional financial contribution" to the UNRWA, worth over $15 million.

“Algeria, by decision of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, announces the provision of an exceptional financial contribution of $15 million to UNRWA," adding that Algeria considers the initiative “a true duty and a firm responsibility that falls on us and on other members of the international community.”

Meanwhile, the criminal Israeli occupation war of genocide continued, and even intensified, with several new deadly airstrikes pummeling the Palestinian people over the previous day, committing several new massacres and slaughtering civilian families, including large numbers of women and children.

In just one example, Zionist air forces bombed a tract of land and a residential building housing displaced civilian families late on Wednesday evening in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the murder of 7 civilians, including three children and a woman, which was later revised upwards.

Further reports of the Rafah strike stated that the number of civilians killed rose to 11 overnight following the work of civil defense crews, who managed to recover three additional corpses of Palestinian victims.

Additionally, the tract of agricultural land that was bombed by Zionist forces in the Al-Salam neighborhood of Rafah city, held a room that was occupied by the Ayyed family who were displaced from Gaza City, resulting in the martyredom of 8 family members, including 5 children and 2 women.

The Israeli occupation has been purposefully targeting displaced civilian families in Rafah, who were forced into the southern Gazan city following the start of the war.

In a previous example, another massacre occured on Tuesday when IOF fighter jets bombed the al-Hanoud family home, in which displaced families were sheltering, also in Rafah, resulting in the deaths of 7 Palestinians, including 4 children.

"Israel's" criminal behavior continued into Thursday morning with the wounding of three Palestinian civilians who were injured following an Israeli occupation airstrike which targeted residential homes in the town of Al-Mughraqa, in the central Gaza Strip.

What little remains of Gaza City was also a focus of the Israeli occupation army, with Zionist warplanes and artillery concentrated on shelling the Sheikh Ajlin and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods, resulting in a number of casualties.

Occupation aircraft further bombarded residential homes and buildings in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood and the Beach Camp area of Gaza City as well.

Following the withdrawal of Zionist forces from the Nuseirat Camp area of central Gaza, local civil defense crews worked to recover the bodies of those killed, however, crews say many still remain buried under the rubble and have yet to be uncovered.

Civil Defense personnel also said they'd recovered the bodies of at least 11 Palestinians from under the debris of the Khan Yunis governate, in the south of Gaza.

The Zionist crimes continued when Israeli warplanes bombed a residential building belonging to the Shaat family in the Yabna Camp area of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in several casualties.

As a result of "Israel's" ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the death toll among the Palestinian civilian population has now risen to exceed 33'970 Palestinians killed, including over 14'560 children and 9'582 women, while an additional 76'770 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

April 18th, 2024

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Présidentielle en Algérie : Abdelmadjid Tebboune réélu avec près de 95 % des voix

Présidentielle en Algérie : Abdelmadjid Tebboune réélu avec près de 95 % des voix — À lire sur www.20minutes.fr/monde/4108941-20240908-presidentielle-algerie-abdelmadjid-tebboune-reelu-pres-95-voix

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14 June 2024: King Abdullah II held separate meetings with heads of state, government, and delegation attending the G7 summit in Italy.

His Majesty met with Algeria President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

At the meetings, the King renewed the call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the protection of civilians.

His Majesty also stressed the need to coordinate and unify humanitarian response efforts seeking to end the catastrophe in Gaza, pointing to the conference held recently in Jordan for this purpose.

The King reiterated the importance of ensuring the permanent and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid into the Strip, as well as supporting UNRWA to enable it to undertake its vital role under its UN mandate.

The meetings, attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, also covered means of enhancing bilateral relations in all fields.

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“ Diceva Eschilo che «la prima vittima della guerra è la verità». Ma la seconda è la logica. Putin affermava di voler «denazificare l’Ucraina», ma usava le bombe e i carri armati, cioè gli stessi metodi con cui Hitler nazificava l’Europa. Gli atlantisti ribattevano che «non si tratta col nemico»: semmai si tratta con l’amico, ma su cosa? Boh. Joe Biden dava del «macellaio» e del «genocida» a Putin, epiteti decisamente appropriati, soprattutto il primo. Ma un tantino indeboliti dal pulpito da cui provenivano: quello del padrone della macelleria (che ha fatto molte più guerre e molti più morti di Putin e al massimo potrebbe assumerlo come garzone). Bill Clinton coglieva l’occasione della guerra di Putin per vantarsi di aver allargato la Nato a Est «pur consapevole che i rapporti con la Russia potevano tornare conflittuali», perché «l’invasione russa dell’Ucraina dimostra che era necessario». Che è un po’ come dire: l’ho preso a calci in culo e lui mi ha spaccato la faccia, quindi avevo ragione io a prenderlo a calci in culo. I trombettieri delle Sturmtruppen ripetevano due mantra. 1. «La Nato è un’alleanza difensiva» (ma non spiegavano come mai nella sua storia abbia aggredito mezzo mondo). 2. «La Nato difende i valori della democrazia» (ma non spiegavano perché vanti tra i suoi soci la Turchia di Erdoğan e abbia appena fomentato un golpettino in Pakistan per cacciare un premier non gradito). Il presidente ucraino Volodymyr Zelensky intimava all’Ue di rinunciare al gas russo «sporco di sangue», «finanziando il genocidio»: lui però continuava ad acquistarlo tramite Paesi vicini e società svizzere, pagandolo profumatamente, «finanziando il genocidio» e per di più incassando da Putin 1,4 miliardi l’anno «sporchi di sangue» per i diritti di transito del gasdotto russo sotto il suolo ucraino.

L’Onu espelleva la Russia dal Consiglio per i Diritti Umani, presieduto dall’Arabia Saudita (nota culla dei diritti umani, apprezzata da Matteo Renzi, ma soprattutto da Jamal Khashoggi, da ottanta giustiziati nel mese di marzo, nonché dai 370mila morti e dai venti milioni di affamati nello Yemen). Per non dipendere dal gas e dal petrolio dell’autocrate Putin, Draghi firmava contratti per far dipendere l’Italia dall’autocrate algerino Abdelmadjid Tebboune (che reprime partiti di opposizione e sindacati, fa arrestare attivisti per i diritti umani ed è fra i migliori partner militari di Mosca) e di altri regimi autocratici che hanno rifiutato di condannare la Russia all’Onu: Qatar, Egitto (vedi alle voci Regeni e Zaki), Congo (vedi alla voce Attanasio), Angola e Mozambico. E continuava a vendere armi all’Arabia Saudita e agli Emirati Arabi Uniti (i macellai dello Yemen), all’Egitto e al Qatar. A supporto del ribaltamento della logica, si provvedeva a ribaltare anche il vocabolario, secondo i dettami del ministero della Verità in 1984 di George Orwell: «La guerra è pace», «La libertà è schiavitù», «L’ignoranza è forza». Putin vietava di parlare di «guerra» perché la sua era solo un’«operazione militare speciale». E chi diceva il contrario finiva in galera. Ma in passato anche i buoni occidentali, quando aggredivano militarmente questo e quello, la guerra non la nominavano mai: meglio “missione umanitaria”, “esportazione della democrazia”, “peacekeeping”. A ogni strage di civili – regolarmente attribuita ai russi, anche nei casi in cui era opera delle truppe ucraine o dei loro fiancheggiatori neonazisti del Battaglione “Azov” – si ricorreva a termini impropri come “genocidio” (distruzione sistematica di un popolo, di un’etnia, di un gruppo religioso) e a paragoni blasfemi con l’Olocausto, la Shoah, la Soluzione Finale (termini finora usati da tutti, fuorché dai negazionisti, esclusivamente per quell’unicum storico che fu lo sterminio nazista degli ebrei). Ma bastava leggere i libri di Gino Strada per sapere che le stragi di civili sono una costante di ogni conflitto e si chiamano precisamente “guerra”, visto che in ciascuna il rapporto fra vittime civili e militari è invariabilmente di 9 a 1. E quella in Ucraina purtroppo non faceva eccezione, malgrado l’indignazione selettiva dei fanatici atlantisti che – per bloccare sul nascere qualunque tentativo di portare Putin al tavolo del negoziato – si affannavano a dipingere quel conflitto come diverso da tutti gli altri per le vittime civili, le fosse comuni, le torture, le violenze gratuite e le armi proibite (anch’esse caratteristiche costanti di tutti i conflitti, inclusi quelli scatenati dai “buoni”). “

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Dalla prefazione di Marco Travaglio a:

Franco Cardini, Fabio Mini, Ucraina. La guerra e la storia, Paper First, Maggio 2022 [Libro elettronico]

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🇩🇿🇮🇷 "J'ai personnellement perdu le commandant Ibrahim Raïssi un frère et partenaire avec qui j'étais uni en servant les liens de fraternité et de coopération et en soutenant les justes causes de nos nations."

Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Président algérien

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The West African nation has been governed for more than two months by a military regime which took power after deposing Niger's elected president, Mohamed Bazoum.

"The Algerian government has received via the Nigerien ministry of foreign affairs a (statement of) acceptance of Algerian mediation aimed at promoting a political solution to the crisis in Niger," the ministry said in a statement.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has tasked Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf with "visiting Niamey as soon as possible with the aim of launching discussions… with all stakeholders," the statement said.

The North African country which borders Niger had proposed in late August a transition period of up to six months, which would aim to "formulate political arrangements with the acceptance of all parties in Niger without excluding any party", Attaf said at the time.

In its Monday statement, Algiers said that "the acceptance of the Algerian initiative strengthens the prospect of a political solution to this crisis".

The mediation would "pave the way" toward a "peaceful" resolution of the crisis, it added, saying such an outcome is in the interest "of the entire region".

Tebboune on August 6 said he "categorically" rejected any foreign military intervention in Niger, which borders Algeria to the south.

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Dictators around the world are increasingly engaging in so-called “genderwashing”: weaponizing women’s empowerment in order to gain legitimacy and distract from human rights violations. Adopting gender quotas in elections, in particular, has become a go-to tactic for dictators, with two-thirds of today’s gender quotas in autocracies.

For dictators, these gender quotas are a smart investment, helping them earn international praise and assistance. Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, for instance, was hailed by Reuters in 2012 as “the new trailblazer” for women’s rights in the Arab world, after his quotas granted women almost one-third of the parliament. Even Egypt’s dictator, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who 10 years ago orchestrated a military coup and massacre, has since been applauded in the Washington Post as a “friendly” autocrat in part for reserving a quarter of the parliament for women in 2020.

Many in the Arab world are skeptical of gender quotas

Our research, however, finds that while autocratic gender quotas might be praised abroad, they are viewed quite differently at home. In a new article just published in the American Political Science Review, we show that public support for these gender quotas is relatively low, as populations are cognizant that the gains to women are coming at the cost of legitimizing the regime.

First, we analyze surveys from the Arab Barometer to show that populations across the Arab world view gender quotas through a political lens. While regime supporters may applaud the dictator’s initiative to establish quotas, opponents are more skeptical, wary of granting the regime legitimacy. Overall, about 57% of regime supporters in the Arab world supported gender quotas, compared to only 40% among regime opponents. This gap is found in almost every country in the region and holds when controlling for gender, gender egalitarianism, and Islamism, among other covariates.

Next, we conduct an original survey in Algeria to explain this pattern. We find that support for Bouteflika’s gender quotas was particularly low, at 28% overall, and only 25% among the opposition. To explore whether concerns about legitimizing the regime were dampening support for the quotas, we then employ a survey experiment where we provide additional context to some respondents about what the quotas actually did. Reminding the Algerian opposition that the quotas benefited women increased support for the quotas by 10 percentage points (to 35%), a statistically significant increase from baseline. But when reminded that the quotas benefited both women and the regime, support remained at a low 29%, statistically no different from baseline. In short, for oppositions in dictatorships, the costs of legitimizing the regime appear to outweigh the benefits of empowering women. This trade-off thus dampens public support for quotas in dictatorships, particularly among regime opponents.

Gender reforms are tarnished when associated with dictators

Without widespread public buy-in, gender quotas in dictatorships are likely to be less effective and less able to translate women’s increased descriptive representation into substantive policy change, as they often do in democracies. Moreover, without public support, gender quotas are likely to prove brittle, unlikely to outlast the dictator who introduced them. In Algeria, for instance, Bouteflika’s quotas were watered down by his successor, Abdelmadjid Tebboune. As a result, women’s representation in parliament dropped from 26% to just 8% today.

In Egypt, a gender quota passed by Anwar Sadat was scrapped after being tainted as part of “Jehan’s Laws” (referring to Sadat’s wife), while a later quota attempted under Hosni Mubarak was likewise abandoned after the 2011 revolution for being part of “Suzanne’s Laws” (referring to Mubarak’s wife). These examples indicate that if a gender reform becomes tainted by association with a particular dictator, it may tarnish gender-forward policies even after he is deposed. In this way, genderwashing might offer short-term gains but long-term costs for women’s empowerment.

Beyond the reforms, genderwashing might also taint the activists who had worked with the dictator. For instance, Tunisian women’s rights activists ultimately tarnished their reputation by working with former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, making it more difficult for them to advance women’s rights after the revolution. As one activist noted, “the dictatorship was pro-women…[so] the hatred against the dictatorship is expressed through action against women.” For activists, then, working with seemingly progressive dictators might be a double-edged sword, undercutting their public support and in turn their ability to advance reforms in the future. Our research thus adds to the existing literature on how gender quotas, particularly in autocracies, might actually produce a backlash towards women’s rights.

Women are more likely to support gender quotas

At the same time, not everyone evaluated the trade-off negatively and opposed the dictator’s gender quotas. In both the Arab Barometer and our survey in Algeria, women and gender egalitarian respondents (those who agreed that social and economic problems would improve if there were more women in office) tended to prioritize the gains to women. These respondents remained consistently supportive of gender quotas, regardless of the potential regime gains. In Algeria, for instance, men’s support for quotas dropped from 22% to 15% when reminded the regime would gain, but women’s support remained at a consistent 40% regardless of regime gains.

Similarly, gender egalitarian respondents remained at a consistent 50% support for quotas even when primed that the regime would gain legitimacy.  These results suggest that women and feminists might on average be easier for progressive autocrats to coopt. In the Arab world, secular feminists often fear the loss of women’s rights if Islamists were to come to power. For regimes, these segments of the population may also be particularly important for staying in power. Political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks have argued that having more women on the front lines makes revolutions more likely to succeed. For dictators, then, coopting women through gender quotas may have additional benefits for helping them weather mass uprisings and stay in power.

Not all Islamist parties are anti-gender quotas

Our analysis also uncovered surprising results about Islamists’ attitudes towards gender quotas. In the Arab world, Islamist movements and parties have generally been fierce critics of gender reforms. We had hypothesized that Islamists would consistently oppose gender quotas on principle, even when they are in power and stand to gain legitimacy through them. This remained true in Algeria, where some pro-regime Islamists under Bouteflika continued to refuse to even print their female candidates’ faces on campaign posters.

But this was not the case elsewhere. Islamists in power elsewhere in the region, such as (at the time) Tunisia’s Ennahda and Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD), had strategically come to embrace quotas, leading their respective countries in the number of female MPs. In turn, these parties shaped their followers to be as supportive of quotas as their counterparts in secular parties.

Trends beyond the Arab world

Finally, while our article focused on Arab autocracies, our theory likely travels beyond the Arab world and beyond dictatorships. Far-right parties in Europe, for instance, have also been accused of genderwashing when fielding women like Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni in elections. If our results are any guide, these attempts should similarly engender a trade-off, with liberals who might otherwise have welcomed women’s empowerment more hesitant, wary of legitimizing the far-right.

In short, whether in autocracies or democracies, when progressive policies are coopted by illiberal or undemocratic actors, they are likely to enjoy only lukewarm support and risk becoming tainted in the process. Only when we better understand genderwashing practices, and their impact on public opinion, can we help preserve the hard-won gains for gender equality in the long term.

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محمد بن راشد يترأّس وفد الإمارات المشارك في أعمال القمة العربية الـ31

يغادر صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم، نائب رئيس الدولة رئيس مجلس الوزراء حاكم دبي، رعاه الله، البلاد غداً (الثلاثاء) متوجهاً إلى العاصمة الجزائرية لترؤس وفد دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة المشارك في القمة العربية الحادية والثلاثين، والتي من المقرر أن تبدأ أعمالها غداً برئاسة فخامة الرئيس عبدالمجيد تبون، رئيس الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية الشقيقة.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, will lead the UAE delegation participating in the 31st edition of the Arab Summit. The Summit will commence in the Algerian capital Algiers tomorrow under the chairmanship of Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

Monday, 31 October 2022 الاثنين