Algeria's celebration of November first and the uninvited guest

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Algeria: A green giant in the making?
Posted: 01.24.2014 10:38
program for sustainable energy and energy efficiency . This program details the ambitious strategy deployed by different kinds of Algerian actors (public and private) in collaboration with foreign partners to make this sector a lever for economic and social development. This program sets targets for development of solar thermal, photovoltaic, and wind, but also the development goals of the industrial capacity needed to produce the materials needed to program locally. Further developing this program includes a legislative and fiscal framework conducive to investment in sustainable energy initiatives, and provides for the development of appropriate structures for Research and Development at the national and continental levels (thanks to the opening a campus Pan-African specialized in sustainable energy in Algiers).

However, what are the opportunities and challenges of a partnership of energy 'green' of this magnitude with Europe?

Algerian side, Sonatrach and its partners have the ambition to become a major exporter of solar energy to Europe. However, these projects, based on links transmissions submarines, appear promising in theory but in practice are facing significant business and technical challenges.

Indeed, the export of solar energy through submarine cables is a prohibitively expensive option, without even counting the cost of getting this energy from southern Europe to the north, leaving us doubt that this option will retain a competitive price compared to conventional alternatives.

In addition, these economic ambitions seem to be based on some assumptions about the European energy policy. Indeed, the important assumption of the Algerian side is that European countries would be willing to pay more for renewable energy. Given the budget deficit that knows the European Union today, it seems that the reality of the market does not necessarily guarantee the full willingness to pay the price of Algerian solar energy. On the other hand, the success of these projects leads us to ask serious questions about the possible future energy dependence of Europe to Algeria, which would therefore not only a major source of oil and gas but as electricity. So it seems that the real challenge in the game is to overcome these difficulties while ensuring on the one hand, the European energy security over the long term, and on the other, prosperity Algerian investments.

This challenge is not impossible and it would appear that Algeria have the potential to remain the main energy supplier to Europe by adopting the necessary policies in terms of promoting investment in infrastructure, technology transfer, know-how, human resources but also learning to become competitive in the global market.

Strong economic relationship in the renewable energy sector is a key asset for Algeria as well as for European countries. Energy memorandum signed last July between the EU and Algeria is an important step towards building a successful relationship.

Algérie: Un géant vert en devenir? | Amir Lebdi

 

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Holland seen on a scooter coming out of a woman house.

It can't happen here, Bouteflika does not have a scooter

What is the difference between Bouteflika and Holland in 2014

None! Both of them ride on two wheels

Elections...Algerian Islamists tear themselves apart..

Hamas leaders honeymoon was short.

 

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After Bouteflika rumored to run ..

Hamas threw the towel..first islamist casualty!

And as expected Aunt Louisa, threw herself into the Algerian couscous

 

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Algerian Islamist in disarray... Knowing that the ballot won't be kind to them, they are throwing the towel in droves..

 

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Since Bouteflika can't run

For the 2014 presidential election, 72 candidates are running ...Talking about casting shadows on US republicans running for their ticket to 2016...

vintage photo of the Algerian war

 

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Ventage images..
North African in both WW
The Algerian people and World War II

After making a decisive contribution to the victory of France during the "Great War" of 1914-1918, the Algerian "indigenous Muslims" are again called to store the last colonial power and defend it against its enemies during the Second World War (1939-1945).

The call for commitment was launched in September 1939, with the beginning of the conflict triggered by the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. This appeal, accompanied by an intense propaganda for the purpose of bringing "indigenous Muslims" and their elite to engage with France, was followed on September 26 by a measure prohibiting Algerian nationalist parties.

Also, the call to disobedience launched by the Algerian People’s Party (PPP) has not fully taken effect: the arrest of its leaders has prevented the party from giving specific instructions to activists on the action to take vis-à-vis Germany.

This mobilization of ’natives’ conscripts, which caused isolated incidents without major consequences on the course of operation, has experienced two stages. The first is the outbreak of the invasion of France by the Germans in June 1940. During this period, the mobilization has led to the creation of fourteen divisions comprising 340,000, among which 75% were Muslims: Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans). “Half of these people were from Algeria," said Belkacem Recham in "The history of Algeria during the colonial period."

"Eight divisions were in the French front in May 10, 1940. Of the six French divisions stood between Dyle in Belgium and Meuse in France, three were North African, "says Recham, doctor of history and author of" The Algerian Muslims in the French army "(L’Harmattan 1996).

The first step in the mobilization of Algerians and North Africa people ended with the debacle of June 1940 when Germany occupied France.

The collapse of the French army resulted in 90,000 prisoners "Muslims": 60,000 Algerians, 18,000 Moroccans and Tunisians 12,000. "Except for tens of thousands of releases and escapes, the rest of the prisoners knew captivity until the Liberation as they were not decimated by diseases, including tuberculosis," says Recham.

After this great setback, France takes the war, in November 1942, during the Anglo-American landing in North, prompting the different trends of the national movement to agree on a platform of demands materialized by the Algerian people Manifesto written by Ferhat Abbas and released in February 1943.

Despite insubordination, the mobilization resulted, in its second phase, in the creation of eight divisions in the three Maghreb countries under French domination. Once fully trained, they were incorporated into the Allies’ devices. Recham says the number of Maghreb people in the French army in 1944 is 233,000 men among 560,000 belonging to the regular army. Algerian soldiers represented at that time 23.2% of the army (129,920 men).

In the first stage of the war, the French army deplored 85,310 people, including 5,400 Muslims and 120,000 injured.

For the second phase, the losses vary according to different estimates, between 97,000 and 110,000 killed, wounded and missing. The Army’s historical data service reports of 97,715 killed and wounded for the whole French army, including 11,193 killed and 39,645 wounded (52 of them were Muslims) from 1942 to 1945.

Algerians and North Africans were illustrated in this conflict by their bravery. Wherever Allied troops were problems progress on the ground, the Maghreb army groups were called as they were “the most experienced in mountain warfare". This full commitment left them with the feeling of being unfairly exploited, especially during the last months of the war.

"Muslims sharpshooters were particularly shocked when they saw the French metropolitan living quietly while they were compelled to go to war," says Mr. Recham.

In addition, Muslim soldiers suffered appalling discrimination within the army. They did not have free access to all grades and their progress stopped at the captain, "as an exceptional reward on the eve of retirement."

We also had to wait to August 1943 (a century after the creation of infantry regiments) to see the claimed parity between Muslim soldiers and French ones initiated.

"After the repression that befell the Algerians who were out to celebrate the Allied victory in May 8, 1945 in Setif, Guelma and Kerrata, some Muslim soldiers stopped illusions about the reality of the colonial regime and definitely switched into the nationalist camp, "Mr. Recham.

The elders of the French army furnished most National Liberation Army (NLA) executives during the Revolution, says Belkacem Recham.



Algerian soldiers in WW1

 

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Back to the Algerian election...
Bouteflika's reign draws ti its end

While the outgoing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika maintains the suspense about his intentions to run for a fourth term, many presidential candidates flood the gate.
It's like a carnival, and for good reason. Just three days after the opening [January 17] of the Presidential Ball of April 17, they were already 72 candidates who responded to the "call" by removing the famous subscription forms for the individual signatures required by the law.

 

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The calling it quit before the start

The Algerian new strong man

 

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Is the president still ill?

 

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Is the president still ill?

He is very ill, but they won't to give him an honorable exit, which he rightfully deserve. Now, there is an ongoing discussion to find the most appealing and capable canditate where a consensus can be reached . Algerian democracy, if you can call it that won't have a solid footing until after this election. A new generation will succeed the old revolutionaries, and we wont see any tangible change until then. Algerians in their big majority, contrary to the believe, do understand that and stability and security is on the forefront of their concerns. We have 7 borders and none of them is stable. Our priorities now are clearely defined...
Thank you for visiting the thread, I am doing my best to give a window of Algeria where everything that is happenig in the country goes without malice intended I just want to present the country as seen by the nationals.

Split into a myriad of micro-parties, Algerian Islamists struggle to unite around a common project. Result: their chances to influence the next election is nil.

Political Islamism is undoubtedly the main victim of Bouteflika's years. However, there is not so long, its various components were the only ones able to compete with the triumphant nationalist movement. Once embodied by three parties, theMovement of Society for Peace (MSP, former Hamas close Muslim Brotherhood) , Ennahda and El-Islah, the Islamist movement today is divided into twenty formations - micro- for most parties. This fragmentation significantly reduced their influence. Political reforms in April 2011, initiated by Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the Arab revolutions (Law on new parties, opening the audiovisual sector, lifting the state of emergency in force for twenty years ...), also contributed in reducing its representation in the institutions.

Even attempts by Abderrezak Mokri , new head of the MSP, to unite all these currents around a single candidate for the presidential election on April 17 broke down over leadership wrangles.In less than three months before the deadline, the Islamists are in disarray.
Présidentielle algérienne | Islamistes algériens : micro-partis, méga-patatras | Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique

 

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Prime minister: the unemployed will be helped in any administrative procedure ..

Art and Audivisual school
Khalida Toumi refuses to budge.

 

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Vintage pictures
Algiers..

Children's game

Algeria in the 60'-70's

Algerians favorite cars..from right to left.
Renault 4ch, Peugeot 203, Renault4 and the legendary Peugeot 404
Algerian couple

Annaba's cathedrale

Algeria's 67

Algeria middle of the 80's