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...Like many others, Ahmed Salah, a 30-year-old engineer took to the streets of Khartoum on Thursday holding a Sudanese flag chanting “the military should go back to the barracks”....
...The five contenders are all seen as regime candidates and the front runners, Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Ali Benflis, have both previously served as prime minister....
...They include two former prime ministers under Mr Bouteflika, Abdel Medjid Tebboune and Ali Benflis....
...Like many Egyptians, Salah has been riveted by Mr Ali’s YouTube videos, some of which are broadcast by anti-regime channels based abroad....
...Ben Ali, a retired civil servant and another demonstrator, added: “This will not be the end of the crisis — this is the start. Is Tebboune even free to make his own decisions?...
...In addition to the former ministers, Ali Haddad, who rose to become Algeria’s most influential businessman under Mr Bouteflika, was jailed for seven years during the same trial....
...He was sacked in 2017 after only three months as prime minister after a dispute with Ali Haddad, a powerful business tycoon who was close to the former president....
...Ali Haddad, a construction tycoon, was arrested at the end of March trying cross into Tunisia....
...Ali, another student said: “We will keep the pressure on the regime until they give in. Our demands are clear. The system has to go.”...
...Mass demonstrations have shaken Algeria almost every day for two weeks, but Ahmed Gaid Salah, the army chief of staff and a Bouteflika ally, has so far insisted that the April 18 presidential election will...
...Most notable among the businessmen is Ali Haddad, head of a construction company that has been one of the main beneficiaries of the country’s massive infrastructure programme....
...Lt Gen Salah Abdel Khalig, one of the seven military officers running Sudan, denies there is anything nefarious in the Gulf states’ support....
...“We really don’t want Iraq to end up as the rubbish bin of a regional Iranian-American-Saudi dispute,” says Salah al-Obaidi, a Najaf cleric and relative of Mr Sadr....
...“[Fallujah] is smaller and very populated,” says Mr Ali, predicting that the task would be more complicated....
...“The government needs to convince people that things will be better,” says Zaid al-Ali, author of The Struggle for Iraq’s Future....
...Once back in the Belgian capital, he was driven by another man, Ali Oulkadi, to an address in Schaerbeek....
...The driver of that vehicle, at this stage identified only as “Ali O”, a 31-year-old French national living in Molenbeek, Brussels, was arrested in one of the raids across the city on Sunday night....
...Soldiers on the streets looking into our cars,” said Ali, the longtime resident of the area who knew Mr Abdelsalm....
...Though he lauded as “positive” this week’s arrest of Salah Hilal, the agriculture minister, in connection with bribery, Mr Diab said it was still a sign of “selective justice” and that the power to prosecute...
...Ali Qumeit, a 31-year-old professor of business administration, built his six-bedroom home on a 600 sq m plot of land in 2010 to house him, his wife and young child, his mother and brother....
...Mr Ali suggested the operation could be seen as a dress rehearsal for the looming operation to take on Isis in their strongholds of Mosul and Anbar....
...Back at the nearby base, General Ali Hossein Wazir al-Shammari describes how Shia militiamen worked hand-in-hand with his soldiers to dislodge Isis from the region....
...the men are heard chanting, in reference to the Shia-dominated volunteer army created at the behest of Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the country’s highest-ranking Shia cleric, after Isis stormed the country last...
...“The south, with which we stand in solidarity today, is a victim of injustice and uncared for,” Ali Benflis, opposition leader and a former prime minister, was quoted as saying at the protests in Algiers...
..."Al-Anbar province's sons are calling [on] all our brothers in the south, including [Iraq's top Shia cleric] Ali al-Sistani, and all factions of the resistance and the [volunteers] to immediately intervene...
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