"Algeria: Covid-19 to the rescue of the generals", according to specialist José Garçon

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José Garçon, specialist in Algeria and member of the Observatory of North Africa and the Middle East of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, author of "Algeria: the Covid-19 to the rescue of the generals". © José Garçon

By: Carine Frenk Follow

As the threshold of 4,000 cases of Covid-19 infection has been crossed in Algeria, the repression has hardened against the media and journalists active in the coverage of Hirak, this popular movement which has demanded a system change for more than a year. José Garçon, specialist in Algeria and member of the Observatory of North Africa and the Middle East of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, has just published an analysis under the title "Algeria: the Covid-19 to the rescue of the generals ”. She is RFI's Africa guest.

  • Coronavirus
  • Confinement
  • Algeria
  • Defense

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