With Nigeria, Algeria and Libya are the largest producers of oil from Africa (Egypt ahead, even before the Yemen, and Sudan). Unlike Tunisia and Egypt (and Morocco), these countries do not live on tourism. They do not have to treat their image in the eyes of Western tourists, came for the calm, the "luxury", the "pleasure". And the oil wealth allows them to maintain (and overpay) "forces order "
impressive in the true sense of the term, but also to" contain "the people involved in the prices of essential commodities to prevent riots out of poverty. These are two (main) reasons that seem at first glance ALGERIA
, things does not look auspicious for this new rally calling the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (NCCD). The daily El Watan
authorities have once again made an impressive police presence in the early hours of the morning of Saturday, February 19 on all streets of the capital, Algiers. - The railway stations have once again been closed and no train has left the docks. Roadblocks have been bred especially on the highway that connects Tizi-Ouzou, Boumerdes and Algiers Bejaia. Some police did not even hesitate to repress citizens whose only crime was to be originally from Kabylia! - The Latest News
Algeria (DNA)
also posted a news feed. [10:35]
police bearing down on the marchers and repress demonstrators. The batons affect everyone. The first casualties are recorded. - Demonstrators improvise a walk in the other direction, toward Belcourt.
(El Watan police bearing down on the marchers and repress demonstrators. The batons affect everyone. The first casualties are recorded. - Demonstrators improvise a walk in the other direction, toward Belcourt.
[11:00] The march that was called the National Coordination for Change and Democracy to be held at 11 am at the moment is prevented by an impressive security. Perhaps more important than that deployed in Algiers Saturday, February 12. - Fitted batons and shields, the police dispersed the crowd by using, this time it, brutality.
( DNA
) - Rachid
Malaoui, SNAPAP was wounded and evacuated to hospital Mustapha. The first arrests were made by the police. - Some young teens are placed on sidewalks with portraits of Bouteflika, to provoke the demonstrators. provocation that could derail at any moment. ) - Rachid
(El Watan
) [11:30]
The face to face, police protesters continue to Belouizdad [former Belcourt]
Algiers. About 300 marchers were surrounded by hundreds of Police at the arcades Belouizdad Boulevard, a little farther than the Ministry of Youth. Any attempt to join the walkers instead of May 1 is brutally repressed.
- Algiers. About 300 marchers were surrounded by hundreds of Police at the arcades Belouizdad Boulevard, a little farther than the Ministry of Youth. Any attempt to join the walkers instead of May 1 is brutally repressed.
direct clashes between protesters and young people "pro-Bouteflika" mobilized to lead the marchers. - On the other hand, young people from Belcourt chanting "Ouyahia Šerák"
[(Prime Minister) Ouyahia (is a) thief] join the march. (El Watan ) - Square May 1 is literally invaded by uniformed police officers in plainclothes. Traffic is now switched off. The police are pushing the groups of protesters to streets leading to the district of Belcourt. There is concern that this tactic is intended to engage the demonstrators in the neighborhood of thugs and push for confrontation. - The president of the RCD, Said Sadi, a trip to France
[he was the guest yesterday of issuing critical week on France 2
] not yet arrived at the Square May 1. On site, rumors suggest that Sadi had lost his passport to France, denied information by the communications officer of the RCD. - The technique developed by police officials to break the march of coordination is this: When a group of protesters formed, Police and pro-Bouteflika sent reinforcements to the heckling, the suppress. - Small groups of thugs, some with expensive, chanting "And Echaab yurid Zetler Batel" (the people want the drug free). Protesters are asking why those whom the regime has made billionaires do not defend the president rather than undertake this task of disaffected youth of Algiers (DNA). [11:40]
The number of protesters increased significantly with the arrival of dozens of young people in Belcourt shouting "Belcourt Echouhada (Belcourt martyr). They are over a thousand to protest in front of police officers to block all exits to the square from 1 May (El Watan
) Police brutalize demonstrators outside the headquarters of the UGTA (General Union of Algerian Workers), not far from Place 1 May, a journalist from DNA . "I saw the police single out a group of demonstrators before beating them with truncheons and kicked. Before me, two young people are beaten, one was on the ground," demonstrates our writer. 
(DNA) - The police encircled groups of protesters and redirects them outside instead of May 1. One group was oriented towards the house of the press, under escort police. They are led to the workshops of ETUSA. (El Watan
)
The manifestation of NCCD is almost complete. The marchers gathered on the Boulevard Belouizdad dispersed and returned to normal situiation instead of 1 May The police are all the streets around the square from 1 May The police helicopter continued to spin in the air of Algiers. - An Islamist group has attempted to gather at the bus station of ETUSA, but they are quickly surrounded by police who dispersed them. - At the arcade Boulevard Belouizdad, skirmishes are reported from time time between marchers and police or between walkers and young pro-Bouteflika ". )
[12:40] Young Belcourt try to gather at the bus station, but they are quickly squeezed by the police, who dispersed. (El Watan ) [12:50] MP RCD Besbes Tahar, was violently assaulted by police. "He was beaten with batons in the face and chest," says his colleague at DNA Mohcine Bellabes. He lost consciousness and time we speak we were unable to evacuate the hospital because the ambulance is blocked Place 1 May " (DNA) -
The newspaper then gave a brief summary of events: An impressive police was set up around the 1st of May Square and in Algiers. Organizers of the march for the Change and Democracy evoke the figure of 40,000 police officers. - Protesters who wanted to walk from the Place from May 1st to Martyrs' Square are blocked by a security cordon. - In contrast to the march of
Saturday, February 12, authorities gave instructions to police: avoid brutal arrests that might damage the regime's image internationally. - Small groups trained kids in the Belcourt heckling demonstrators brandishing a portrait of Bouteflika. [13:00] member of the RCD, Tahar Besabess, assaulted by police, has not regained consciousness more 40 minutes after receiving blows to the head and chest. Evacuated to the Emergency Department of Hospital Mustapha Bacha, the member is still lying on a stretcher waiting to be supported by a neurologist. - The group of young pro-Bouteflika eventually join the ranks of demonstrators against the regime massed on the street leading to Belcourt, said a journalist DNA on the spot. While in the early morning, they were heckling the rally against the regime, they decided to join the protest movement, chanting "Ouyahia Seraq (Ouyahia, the Prime Minister, thief).
(DNA) 
[1:15 p.m.] age of 82, Ali Yahia Abdenour is the honorary president of the NCCD.
Manhandled by police officers wounded in the hand, the lawyer and activist for human rights has made a statement to reporters at the Plaza of May 1 and calls the Algerian uprising: "We want to change the system but not a change in the system. We are citizens who want to free freedom. Nobody can stop the acceleration of history. Nobody can prevent street revolt. It calls on Algerians to rise up ... "
[1:40 p.m.]
MP RCD Tahar Besbes was beaten by police and is currently in hospital emergency Mustapha Bacha. According to the RCD, Tahar Besbes would have had a head injury after a fall caused by beatings by police. In falling his head struck the curb. He is currently in a condition deemed serious enough to Mustapha.
(El Watan ) 
[2:10 p.m.] sharp exchange of words between a member of the RCD and the main charge of the police to suppress the demonstration instead of May 1, Algiers. - MP: "Where have you brought these 40 000 policemen to punish us?" - The head of the police: "And you, where have you brought all these people?" (DNA) [14:30] A team of journalists from the French channel M6, which filmed the attack and the evacuation to the hospital's deputy Taha Besbes was taken to task by members of the Security the hospital decided to confiscate their equipment in the hospital grounds. - The journalists managed to escape their grasp and save the recording.
(DNA) (DNA).
[3:25 p.m.] member of the RCD, Tahar Besbess violently assaulted by police, found his spirits and is doing slightly better, learned of his DNA around. Admitted in hospital Mustapha Bacha, M. Besbes was examined by a neurosurgeon before being transferred to the trauma service. These facts are then denied by officials: Management of Civil Protection in Algiers said today that the member of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), Tahar Besbes, had "absolutely nothing. " He took issue against the testimony of a medical doctor who saw him in hospital wounded and briefly dipped in a coma. - The "official" version is in turn challenged by a medical intensivist on this site Dr. Rafik Hassan. ( DNA ) Here again the testimony of Bourbakeur Denguin (RCD) posted the day after (20-02-2011) by Euronews :
And in the end afternoon, the official summary of the day falls:
The intervention of the police to carry out the dispersion of a crowd of demonstrators on Saturday at the Place du 1er-Mai and the street Mohamed-Belouizdad, took place "without incident", said a statement from the Directorate General of Security National (DGSN). - The statement refers to the presence of no more than "150 protesters who tried to defy the ban a demonstration." - During this operation, the officers "acted in strict compliance with the laws in carrying out the evacuation of the highway, without resort to the use of conventional means used in such circumstances (tear gas, batons etc. ....). - Intervention "was uneventful and led to the evacuation of the public space occupied unduly to facilitate the movement of people and vehicles and prevent any act likely to prejudice public order and public security, "the statement added. (DNA)
[7:55 p.m.] M6 has released about him in Algiers. In the images we see still a lot der participants in the event: some say that youth were paid 200 dinars (2 euros) to infiltrate, provoke, insult the peaceful protesters. Also shown are cons-demonstrators waving posters of President Bouteflika. The reporter concluded by doing so, it seems, the spokesman of the Coordination National Change and Democracy: New
marches will be held every Saturday until the fall of the regime.
LIBYA This morning site LCI title: Silence is repressed. - Turning off the Image and Sound: Internet blocked, scrambled signal for satellite television like Al Jazeera, Libya continues to deny the revolt that won the east, where protesters face special forces loyal to Gaddafi . The turmoil has left dozens dead . And the news channel TF1 group precise : The information is fragmented and difficult to leave Libya, and the only images are posted on the internet by opponents who filmed the crackdown. What is known is that the outcome of the riots is several dozens of deaths, mostly involving clashes in eastern countries, particularly Benghazi. But to cut a little more demonstrators around the world, Libya has blocked all access to the Internet, the closure of the valves of the Web - and thus access to images of repression - was announced early Saturday by a company specializing in monitoring Internet traffic and based in the United States, Arbor Networks. TV channel Qatari Al-Jariza also announced Friday that its signal was jammed. - The international NGO Human Rights Watch [listed in the right column]
based in New York, reported Saturday in at least 84 deaths in the last 72 hours when Amnesty International
[also listed in the right column ] speaks of 46 shot dead by security forces. According to Amnesty, quoting hospital sources in Benghazi, injuries are most commonly found bullets in the head, chest and neck. "This alarming increase in the balance and nature of injury victims clearly suggest that the security forces authorize the use of force against unarmed demonstrators demanding political change, "says the NGO. Any new funeral procession could lead to new gatherings of protesters, emboldened by popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt who have been right leaders in power for decades. "The special forces who are loyal to Gadhafi are still fighting desperately to take control and to gain ground and people are fighting against them street by street," said a resident of Benghazi, Libya second largest city, told the BBC. He said the electricity is cut in several parts of City and military vehicles parked in front of the courthouse. More than a thousand prisoners have also escaped Friday after a riot at a prison in the city, the newspaper Quryna, close to the reformist Seif Al-Islam, son of Muammar Gaddafi, and 150 were subsequently arrested. - But the troubles are not limited to
Benghazi, who had already experienced a few years ago a ferocious repression. According to the Libyan newspaper
Oea , also close to Seif al-Islam, two policemen who tried to disperse a demonstration in Al-Baida , 200 km from Benghazi, were captured by protesters before being hanged. In contrast to
Tripoli, the capital, they are supporters of the regime who took to the streets Friday, traveling the city by car, brandishing portraits of Colonel Qaddafi and flags.
In the post- noon, the site Point
reports: Saturday [Benghazi] after the funeral of several victims, a crowd of demonstrators came face to face with the police, who fired into the air to disperse them, told Reuters an inhabitant of this town a thousand miles east of Tripoli. - "The demonstrators wanted to attack security forces but when they heard the warning shots, they fled," he added. - A cleric in Benghazi, Abellahi al Warfali, told the television channel Al Jazeera a list of sixteen victims buried on Saturday, the most hit by bullets in the head and chest. - "I saw with my own eyes a tank crushing a car in which were two people," he said. "These people were not hurt anyone."
Tonight, Al Jazeera reports that Libyan security forces opened fire at a funeral in Benghazi, killing at least 15 people ... The victims of Saturday marched in memory of protesters who were killed during anti-government protests last week, according to the statements of witnesses ... A doctor from the city told Al Jazeera Al Jalah the hospital where he works has received 15 bodies and treated many people after the shooting on the funeral marches. He added that the hospital counted 44 dead in three days and that the institution is experiencing difficulty in treating the injured. "This is not a well-equipped hospital and the wounded were arriving in waves. Nothing but very serious injuries, including head, chest and abdomen. Gunshot wounds from high velocity guns. All are civilians aged between 13 and 35 years, no injuries from the police or the army, "he said, adding that the injuries could only be made by anyone other than the security forces:" We shot for kill. " - According to other reports with the Qatari, riots, having concentrated in the east (Benghazi, Al Bayda and Tobruk), begin également.à Western touch. Libya. (unspecified). The Observer humanitarian Abdulmalek Mohamed (Libya Watch ) if Tripoli is not currently affected (due to heavy presence of security forces), "there is no doubt that East and West will join [the capital].
Suite [ Sunday, February 20, 2011 ]
YEMEN
Le Nouvel Observateur published this dispatch
of AP : The police opened fire Saturday (19-02 2011) against the demonstrators who marched by the thousands in the streets of the capital Sanaa to demand the departure of President Ali Abdallah Saleh. According to a medical official who requested anonymity, a man was shot in the neck and five others were wounded. - Demonstrators marched from the University in the Department of Justice, chanting "the people want the fall of the regime." Police anti-riot units, supported by elements in civilian clothes, were then attacked the demonstrators. - In Aden, residents said security forces, after 10 days of protests, deserted streets of the port city. Groups of men attacked, robbed and burned government buildings, without the intervention of the police or army, witnesses said.
Here's a video of Euronews, posted yesterday, which summarizes the situation in the country:
Tonight the Nouvel Observateur site
gives this information (with the
AP)
the tenth day of protests in Yemen, police opened fire on Saturday to disperse protesters who marched by the thousands in the streets of the capital Sanaa to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in power for 32 years. One protester was killed and five others wounded, according to a medical source . [...] According to an official medical , who requested anonymity, a man died after being shot in the neck. - In total, seven people were killed in the country since the protests began. [...] Meanwhile, residents of the port city of Aden, where riots left at least four deaths, said that soldiers, traveling in armored vehicles, were deployed in the main streets at the entrance of certain neighborhoods, and to building strategic as the governor's office. - Many officers, however, deserted streets of the port city, apparently to avoid confrontations with demonstrators toujo
Publish Post
sisters gathered in certain places. - Vice-President Abd Rabou Mansour met with leaders of the municipality and decided to close the city for twelve hours until 6am Sunday morning to prevent people living outside of Aden to join protests according to a security official. - Earlier, groups of men had attacked, looted and burned official buildings, without the intervention of the police or army, witnesses said. (AP)
And BAHRAIN
At least one new today, which is not tragic: After the departure of the military and offers of dialogue from the Crown Prince, thousands of jubilant demonstrators, shouting victory, have reinvested the roundabout at the Pearl, the central Manama.
And in the end afternoon, the official summary of the day falls:
The intervention of the police to carry out the dispersion of a crowd of demonstrators on Saturday at the Place du 1er-Mai and the street Mohamed-Belouizdad, took place "without incident", said a statement from the Directorate General of Security National (DGSN). - The statement refers to the presence of no more than "150 protesters who tried to defy the ban a demonstration." - During this operation, the officers "acted in strict compliance with the laws in carrying out the evacuation of the highway, without resort to the use of conventional means used in such circumstances (tear gas, batons etc. ....). - Intervention "was uneventful and led to the evacuation of the public space occupied unduly to facilitate the movement of people and vehicles and prevent any act likely to prejudice public order and public security, "the statement added. (DNA)
[7:55 p.m.] M6 has released about him in Algiers. In the images we see still a lot der participants in the event: some say that youth were paid 200 dinars (2 euros) to infiltrate, provoke, insult the peaceful protesters. Also shown are cons-demonstrators waving posters of President Bouteflika. The reporter concluded by doing so, it seems, the spokesman of the Coordination National Change and Democracy: New
marches will be held every Saturday until the fall of the regime.
LIBYA This morning site LCI title: Silence is repressed. - Turning off the Image and Sound: Internet blocked, scrambled signal for satellite television like Al Jazeera, Libya continues to deny the revolt that won the east, where protesters face special forces loyal to Gaddafi . The turmoil has left dozens dead . And the news channel TF1 group precise : The information is fragmented and difficult to leave Libya, and the only images are posted on the internet by opponents who filmed the crackdown. What is known is that the outcome of the riots is several dozens of deaths, mostly involving clashes in eastern countries, particularly Benghazi. But to cut a little more demonstrators around the world, Libya has blocked all access to the Internet, the closure of the valves of the Web - and thus access to images of repression - was announced early Saturday by a company specializing in monitoring Internet traffic and based in the United States, Arbor Networks. TV channel Qatari Al-Jariza also announced Friday that its signal was jammed. - The international NGO Human Rights Watch [listed in the right column]
based in New York, reported Saturday in at least 84 deaths in the last 72 hours when Amnesty International
[also listed in the right column ] speaks of 46 shot dead by security forces. According to Amnesty, quoting hospital sources in Benghazi, injuries are most commonly found bullets in the head, chest and neck. "This alarming increase in the balance and nature of injury victims clearly suggest that the security forces authorize the use of force against unarmed demonstrators demanding political change, "says the NGO. Any new funeral procession could lead to new gatherings of protesters, emboldened by popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt who have been right leaders in power for decades. "The special forces who are loyal to Gadhafi are still fighting desperately to take control and to gain ground and people are fighting against them street by street," said a resident of Benghazi, Libya second largest city, told the BBC. He said the electricity is cut in several parts of City and military vehicles parked in front of the courthouse. More than a thousand prisoners have also escaped Friday after a riot at a prison in the city, the newspaper Quryna, close to the reformist Seif Al-Islam, son of Muammar Gaddafi, and 150 were subsequently arrested. - But the troubles are not limited to
Benghazi, who had already experienced a few years ago a ferocious repression. According to the Libyan newspaper
Oea , also close to Seif al-Islam, two policemen who tried to disperse a demonstration in Al-Baida , 200 km from Benghazi, were captured by protesters before being hanged. In contrast to
Tripoli, the capital, they are supporters of the regime who took to the streets Friday, traveling the city by car, brandishing portraits of Colonel Qaddafi and flags.
In the post- noon, the site Point
reports: Saturday [Benghazi] after the funeral of several victims, a crowd of demonstrators came face to face with the police, who fired into the air to disperse them, told Reuters an inhabitant of this town a thousand miles east of Tripoli. - "The demonstrators wanted to attack security forces but when they heard the warning shots, they fled," he added. - A cleric in Benghazi, Abellahi al Warfali, told the television channel Al Jazeera a list of sixteen victims buried on Saturday, the most hit by bullets in the head and chest. - "I saw with my own eyes a tank crushing a car in which were two people," he said. "These people were not hurt anyone."
Tonight, Al Jazeera reports that Libyan security forces opened fire at a funeral in Benghazi, killing at least 15 people ... The victims of Saturday marched in memory of protesters who were killed during anti-government protests last week, according to the statements of witnesses ... A doctor from the city told Al Jazeera Al Jalah the hospital where he works has received 15 bodies and treated many people after the shooting on the funeral marches. He added that the hospital counted 44 dead in three days and that the institution is experiencing difficulty in treating the injured. "This is not a well-equipped hospital and the wounded were arriving in waves. Nothing but very serious injuries, including head, chest and abdomen. Gunshot wounds from high velocity guns. All are civilians aged between 13 and 35 years, no injuries from the police or the army, "he said, adding that the injuries could only be made by anyone other than the security forces:" We shot for kill. " - According to other reports with the Qatari, riots, having concentrated in the east (Benghazi, Al Bayda and Tobruk), begin également.à Western touch. Libya. (unspecified). The Observer humanitarian Abdulmalek Mohamed (Libya Watch ) if Tripoli is not currently affected (due to heavy presence of security forces), "there is no doubt that East and West will join [the capital].
Suite [ Sunday, February 20, 2011 ]
YEMEN
Le Nouvel Observateur published this dispatch
of AP : The police opened fire Saturday (19-02 2011) against the demonstrators who marched by the thousands in the streets of the capital Sanaa to demand the departure of President Ali Abdallah Saleh. According to a medical official who requested anonymity, a man was shot in the neck and five others were wounded. - Demonstrators marched from the University in the Department of Justice, chanting "the people want the fall of the regime." Police anti-riot units, supported by elements in civilian clothes, were then attacked the demonstrators. - In Aden, residents said security forces, after 10 days of protests, deserted streets of the port city. Groups of men attacked, robbed and burned government buildings, without the intervention of the police or army, witnesses said.
Here's a video of Euronews, posted yesterday, which summarizes the situation in the country:
Tonight the Nouvel Observateur site
gives this information (with the
AP)
the tenth day of protests in Yemen, police opened fire on Saturday to disperse protesters who marched by the thousands in the streets of the capital Sanaa to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in power for 32 years. One protester was killed and five others wounded, according to a medical source . [...] According to an official medical , who requested anonymity, a man died after being shot in the neck. - In total, seven people were killed in the country since the protests began. [...] Meanwhile, residents of the port city of Aden, where riots left at least four deaths, said that soldiers, traveling in armored vehicles, were deployed in the main streets at the entrance of certain neighborhoods, and to building strategic as the governor's office. - Many officers, however, deserted streets of the port city, apparently to avoid confrontations with demonstrators toujo
Publish Post
sisters gathered in certain places. - Vice-President Abd Rabou Mansour met with leaders of the municipality and decided to close the city for twelve hours until 6am Sunday morning to prevent people living outside of Aden to join protests according to a security official. - Earlier, groups of men had attacked, looted and burned official buildings, without the intervention of the police or army, witnesses said. (AP)
At least one new today, which is not tragic: After the departure of the military and offers of dialogue from the Crown Prince, thousands of jubilant demonstrators, shouting victory, have reinvested the roundabout at the Pearl, the central Manama.
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