Algeria: Tensions Rise in South

Algiers — Activists in Ghardaia launched a hunger strike on Monday (April 1st), the latest in a series of actions aimed at calling attention to conditions in southern Algeria.

"Our members have participated in this peaceful action in the defence of just causes and rights of citizens," Liberté quoted the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH) as saying.

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