Dozens of jobless youth protest south of Algeria

Dozens of unemployed youth protest here on Sunday in Bouzid neighborhood in Ouregla, south of Algeria, asking government to provide job opportunities.

 Youth of Ouergla blocked the road with stones along the main street where important institutions including high schools, a military court and office for recruiting soldiers, shouting; “Rights looted in South”.

Police intervened to follow up and monitor the situation while unemployed youth refused to negotiate with the head of the Agency for Recruiting Youth asking the governor to get off them due to promises that are still waiting for implementation since years.

Young protesters blocked the roads with stones preventing vehicles from passing and disturbed the traffic movement for hours.

Some of them told Echorouk that there is a usual exclusion from work by a mafia that still manipulate the file despite the new laws approved by the President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, calling upon the governor to fulfill his promises and impose stricter measures on the manipulators who seek to marginalize them for unfair reasons, and on companies which impose difficult conditions and circumvent the legislation in force.