ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria will lift the state of emergency that has been in effect since 1992 in the "very near future," the country's president was quoted as saying Thursday.
Even so, demonstrations still won't be allowed in the capital of Algiers, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said, according to state media.
The government has insisted the state of emergency was a necessary tool in the fight against terrorism, but critics charge that recently it has been used to muzzle the political opposition by banning marches.
The state of emergency was declared as Algeria spiraled into a civil war between Islamists and government forces, a yearslong battle that killed up to …
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