Algerian protesters return to streets for demand reforms


  • World
  • Saturday, 20 Jul 2019

Demonstrators chant slogans during a protest demanding the removal of the ruling elite in Algiers, Algeria, July 19, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Algerians returned to the streets in the capital Algiers and other cities on Friday to demand radical political reforms and the departure of the ruling elite.

Protesters are now seeking more freedoms and the removal of the remaining symbols of the old guard, after they forced President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to end a 20-year-rule on April 2.

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