Hundreds of students in Algeria protest against Presdient Bouteflika

Hundreds of students demonstrated in several university cities across Algeria to protest to ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term.

Algerian students from Bouzareah university, protest in the capital Algiers against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term Source: ABACA

Thousands of students on Tuesday joined a growing protest movement in Algeria against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, with rallies in and around the capital and other cities.

Bouteflika, who uses a wheelchair and has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013, announced on February 10 that he would seek re-election in the April 18 vote.

His decision has sparked angry protests in the North African country, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets on Friday in Algiers where demonstrations are banned.

The scale of those protests took many in Algeria by surprise, and they were followed by more rallies on Sunday and Monday.

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