{"id":121393,"date":"2021-05-05T10:20:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121393"},"modified":"2021-05-05T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:20:30","slug":"algerias-pres-tebboune-urges-dialogue-amid-mounting-social-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121393","title":{"rendered":"Algeria\u2019s Pres Tebboune urges dialogue amid mounting social anger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Algeria-s-Tebboune-urges-dialogue-amid-mounting-social-anger-1250611?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/379\/37916550.295.jpg\" alt=\"Civil protection personnel marched in uniform\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Civil protection personnel marched in uniform<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALGIERS, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has urged his government to open \u201ca dialogue\u201d with social partners to appease mounting social anger.<br><br>An unemployment rate of 15 percent, soaring prices and shortages of basic food items have all added to turmoil caused by a deep economic crisis due to the fall in oil revenues and political deadlock since the popular Hirak pro-democracy uprising two years ago.<br><br>During a recent cabinet meeting, Tebboune ordered \u201ca dialogue with different social partners to improve the socio-professional situation\u201d of employees in the education and health sectors, a statement said.<br><br>Meanwhile, firefighters and other civil protection personnel marched in uniform not far from the headquarters of the Algerian presidency. Firefighters took to social media to say that police broke up the demonstration with tear gas.<br><br>On Thursday, Algeria released on probation Karim Tabbou, a leading opposition activist, after his arrest the previous day.<br><br>Tabbou, who was handed a one-year suspended sentence last year for \u201cundermining state security\u201d, was charged on eight counts, including \u201cslander\u201d, after he allegedly heckled an official during a funeral. Tabbou and other government opponents have pledged to boycott upcoming polls.<br><br>The head of the electoral authority (ANIE), Mohamed Charfi, said this week that 1,730 lists \u2013 818 party lists and 912 \u201cindependent lists\u201d \u2013 had registered for the legislative elections in June. But he said 19 parties out of the 39 that had submitted their documents \u201cmeet the legal requirements\u201d.<br><br>The Hirak protest movement erupted in 2019 after former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his bid for a fifth term in office.<br><br>The ailing ruler was forced to step down weeks later, but the Hirak has continued its demonstrations, demanding a sweeping overhaul of a ruling system in place since Algeria\u2019s independence from France in 1962. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil protection personnel marched in uniform ALGIERS, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has urged his government to open \u201ca dialogue\u201d with social partners to appease mounting social anger. An unemployment rate of 15 percent, soaring prices and shortages of basic food items have all added to turmoil caused by a deep economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}