Algeria Government Approves Lifting of State of Emergency
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Algeria’s government approved the ending of a 19-year-old state of emergency, after protests similar to those that ousted presidents in Egypt and Tunisia.
The country’s council of ministers adopted a law today revoking the 1993 decree that prolonged a state of emergency originally instituted the previous year, government-run news agency Algerie Presse Service reported on its website today.