Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Scontri di piazza anche in Algeria

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010601364.html
Youths riot in Algeria over high food prices
By AOMAR OUALI
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 6, 2011; 3:21 PM
ALGIERS, Algeria -- Riots over rising food prices and chronic 
unemployment spiraled out from Algeria's capital on Thursday, with 
youths torching government buildings and shouting "Bring us Sugar!"
Police helicopters circled over Algiers, and stores closed early. 
Security officers blocked off streets in the tense working-class 
neighborhood of Bab el-Oued, near the capital's ancient Casbah, and 
areas outside the city were swept up in the rampages.
The U.S. Embassy issued a warning to Americans in Algeria to "remain 
vigilant" and avoid crowds.
Riots on Wednesday night in the neighborhood saw a police station, a 
Renault car dealership and other buildings set ablaze. Police with tear 
gas fired back at stone-throwing youths through the night.
Wednesday's violence started after evening Muslim prayers. It came after 
price hikes for milk, sugar and flour in recent days, and amid simmering 
frustration that Algeria's abundant gas-and-oil resources have not 
translated into broader prosperity.
Youths resumed their outbursts Thursday afternoon.
Violence erupted across town in the El Harrach neighborhood, where 
youths set tires on fire and threw stones at police. Some officers were 
seen rounding up suspected troublemakers.
In the suburb of Rouiba, youths set fire to tires and danced around 
them, chanting "Bring us sugar!" Others tore down street signs and 
smashed streetlights with iron bars. In the suburb of Bordj El Bahri 
east of Algiers, rioters set fire to a post office. In nearby Dergana, 
youths set a town hall alight.
The violence led to blocked roads and kept schoolchildren and workers 
from getting home. Parents were heard talking to their children on cell 
phones, urging them to seek safety.
  Algeria is still recovering from an insurgency that ravaged the 
country throughout the 1990s after the army canceled 1992 elections that 
fundamentalists were expected to win. Bab el-Oued is a former stronghold 
of that group, the now-banned Islamic Salvation Front, or FIS.
"They are right, these young people. They have no job, no housing, no 
visa (for other countries) and now not even bread or milk," said Amara 
Ourab, a resident of the neighborhood in her 50s.
Neighboring Tunisia has also seen violent protests in recent weeks over 
unemployment, leading to three deaths.
The unrest in Tunisia began when a young man set himself on fire Dec. 17 
in the Sidi Bouzid region after police confiscated the fruits and 
vegetables he sold without a permit. The man had a university degree but 
no steady work, and his hardship resonated with many in Tunisia, where 
unemployment stands at 14 percent but is much higher outside the capital.
On Thursday, lawyers across the country staged a strike to protest the 
violence some members of the national bar faced at a support rally for 
the residents of Sidi Bouzid last Friday.
Ahmed Seddik, a lawyer involved in the strike, said 95 percent of 
members in a labor council representing the lawyers had taken part in 
the peaceful strike and accompanying protest in Tunis.
Separately, about 40 police surrounded the home of a well-known Tunisian 
rapper, Hamada Ben Amor, and arrested him along with a blogger after 
Amor's Facebook site featured two songs critical of the government, the 
singer's brother said.
Ben Amor, 22, was arrested before daybreak at his home in the town of 
Sfax in southern Tunisia, said the brother, Hamdi Ben Amor.
-- 
Namib
"Nessun lacrimogeno può disperdere manifestazioni d'affetto" (Alessandro 
Bergonzoni)

 Youths riot in Algeria over high food prices
siamo sull'orlo del vulcano...noi quasi non ce ne accorgiamo, ma c'è
un'inflazione globale dei prezzi dei prodotti agricoli che nei paesi
più poveri sta scatenando l'inferno....
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2011-01-06/mezzo-mondo-crisi-alimentare-103424.shtml

 
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2011-01-06/mezzo-mondo-crisi-alimentare-103424.shtml
#_Quoto!
Stavo cercando anch'io una fonte di questa notizia allarmantissima.
E` una bomba ad orologeria che esplodera` a catena in tutto il resto del 
mondo piu` povero, ma non avviene solo la', dove la situazione e` gia` 
giunta all'estremo.
Persino qui, in un paese cosi` ricco ed esportatore di prodotti 
alimentare la situazione va peggiorando paurosamente.
La bizzarria e` che i grandi distributori sono stracolmi.
Tra poco (e ci si sta gia`organizzando) gruppi volontari andranno alla 
raccolta di tutto cio`che grandi magazzini gettano via per surplus ancor 
prima della scadenza, o colla data appena superata, per portarlo a punti 
di raccolta liberi al quale possano accedere quelle classi piu`povere 
sull'orlo della disperazione.

 Stavo cercando anch'io una fonte di questa notizia allarmantissima.
sull'Algeria in italiano c'è anche qui:
http://www.nena-news.com/?p=5917