Algerian protesters hold last Friday rally before election - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The protesters have been demonstrating twice a week since February to demand that the shadowy ruling elite that has controlled Algeria since independence in 1962 quits power.

Protesters say any election is pointless if the ruling hierarchy, including the army, continues to wield power, and want it put off until more top officials step aside and the military quits politics. “We are used to hearing promises. I don’t trust them,” said Djamila Chabi, 37, referring to the debate.

Late on Thursday, the security services accused a Berber separatist movement of planning to disrupt the election by using agents provocateurs among the protesters to incite police violence, saying a student in the banned group had confessed.

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