Tens of thousands of Algerians defy heavily deployed riot police and resume mass protests against President Bouteflika
On Thursday, in a message released on the eve of the fresh protests, Bouteflika warned that trouble-makers may try to infiltrate the demonstrations leading to "chaos".
The Algerian leader has been in power since 1999 but has been all but absent from the public eye since a stroke in 2013. He has been hospitalised in Switzerland since last month for what the government describes as medical tests. Bouteflika flagged the risk of a return to the "national tragedy" of Algeria's decade-long civil war in the 1990s and of the "crises and tragedies caused by terrorism" in neighbouring countries.
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