Tens of thousands of Algerians are expected to rally against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plan to seek a fifth term in office tomorrow, in what may become Algeria’s biggest protest since its independence in 1962.
Protesters have staged daily demonstrations across the country since February twenty-second, nearly two weeks after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika confirmed that he will stand in the April eighteenth Presidential election.
The grassroots and largely peaceful anti-Bouteflika movement has galvanised the fragmented Algerian opposition, which until recently spent much time in dealing with internal disputes as it did in fighting the government.
But since the protests started, a number of opposition groups have resumed dialogue to come up with a joint strategy to keep pressure on President Bouteflika.
Meanwhile, India’s Supreme Court has appointed an arbitration panel to mediate in a decade-long dispute over a religious site in northern Uttar Pradesh State of Ayodhya city.
The court ruled that the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, as the contentious case is known, will now be mediated through a panel headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Kalifulla.
The other members of the arbitration panel include a senior advocate, Sriram Panchu, and self-styled Hindu godman, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
The seventy-year-old case involves a dispute over a one-hectare site in Ayodhya, where right-wing Hindus plan to build a temple dedicated to Lord Ram on the ruins of a sixteenth-century mosque demolished in 1992.
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