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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Is an "Arab Spring" Coming to Algeria?
Description: For the past several weeks Algeria has been rocked by mass protests that harken to the Arab Spring. The protests were triggered by the decision of longtime ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for another term in office in elections scheduled for April. Bouteflika came to power in 1999 as the architect of a peace accord that ended Algeria's brutal civil war that killed as many as 200,000. But Bouteflika is now 82 years old and has not been seen in public since suffering a stroke over five years ago.  His decision to stand again for elections (or, probably more accurately, the decis...