VOL. XL

No. 33

18-August-1997

ALGERIA

Government Opposition Threatens Privatization In Algeria

Opposition from within the coalition government of Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has threatened to delay further the nascent privatization process. The Movement for a Peaceful Society (MPS - formerly Hamas, the main legal Islamicist party) and the National Liberation Front (FLN) have lambasted the government's privatization program on the grounds that it is too wide-ranging and...