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= = =__**Country: Algeria**__=

__**Leader:**__
- Leader of Algeria is Abdelaziz Bouteflika. - Abdelaziz Bouteflika is the 10th president of Algeria. - Bouteflika ran for President as an independent candidate, supported by the military. - Abdelaziz Bouteflika became president in 1999. - He continued the emergency rule, but says that it will be removed shortly, since people don't like the law. - Presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002. - Promised to stop the violence in his country. - Political violence declined since the 1990's when he became president. - After Algeria's independence in 1962, Abdelaziz Bouteflika became deputy of Tlemcen in the Constituent Assembly. He also became Minister for Youth and Sport in the government. One year later he was appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs, and would remain there until the death of President Houari Boumedienne. - During his first tirm of President he launched a five year economic plan called the Support Plan for Economic Recovery. - He secured a peace treaty with Spain in 2002, and then invited the president of France to Algeria which lead to a peace treaty. - For his third term of President several opposition parties had boycotted the election. They agreed that it was a flaud. - Population- 35.4 million. - Religion- Islam - Language- Arabic and Berber. - Life expectancy- 72 years for men, and 75 years for women. - Geography- Located in Nothern Africa. Borders the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocca and Tunisia. Is the second largest state in Africa. Has soil erosion. - Terrain- Mostly high plateau and desserts. Mountain ranges which bring earthquakes and mud slids. - Capital- Algiers
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- Trade Orginizations- OPEC, GECF, and WTO - Main exports- oil and gas. - Trade mainly with France and Italy, but also trade with the United States and Spain. - Stock exchange- The Algiers Stock Exchange - Unemployment- 10.2% in 2009 - Debt- $486 million - Budget- $41.56 Billion - Agriculture Products- Wheat, barley, oats, grapes, olives, citrus, fruits, sheep, cattle. - Sector Information- Agriculture(8.3%), Services (30.2%), and Industry (61.5%) - GDP- $159.7 billion - GDP Growth Rate- 4.1%
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__**Problems**__ - Soil erosion. Soil erosion accured by overgazing, poor farming practices, and desertification. There is a lot of pollution in the state of Algeria. For example, the Mediterranean Sea is becoming polluted from oil wastes, soil erosion, and fertilizer run off.

__**Three References are...**__ - Obama from the United States. He agrees for what Abdelaziz Bouteflika did for his people and that was taking the Emergency Law away. He said that it was "a positive sign" and "It's an important step foward" - Jerzy Buzek from Brussels, European Parliament said that Algerian authorities "shun violence and respect their citizens' right to peaceful demonstration." And this is what Abdelaziz Bouteflika did by taking the law away. - Philip Crowley who is a State Department spokesman said " We reaffirm out support for the universal rights of the Algerian people, including assembly and expression." Since Bouteflika took away the law other people are helping him and his country out.

__**The four benchmarks**__ __**Safety and Rule of Law-**__ In the 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governance you can see that my country got only 54%. It's only 54% because for safety Terrorism continues to pose a threat safety. Terrorist activities, including bombings, false roadblocks, kidnappings, ambushes, and assassinations occur regularly. For example, vehicle-borne suicide bomb attacks have emerged as a terrorist tactic in Algeria, including in the capital. The group that says they did the attacks said there are going to be more attacks against foreign targets, especially the U.S. The crime rate is very high and is still increasing in Algeria.

__**Participation and Human Rights-**__ In the 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governance it says that the participation and human rights are at 37%. The human rights situation in Algeria is terrible. Thousands of men, women and children have been killed, many killed in their own homes, both by security forces and the government-backed militias or by extremist Islamic groups. Really the only reason why the percent is higher then a 10 is because the government in Algeria has been moving foward by taking the Emergency Law away which made all the people very happy.

__**Sustainable Economic Opportunity-**__ In the 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governance the percentage for Sustainable Economic Opportunity is at 55%. Algeria scored above the overall contimental average which is 51.2.

__**Human Development-**__ In the 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, the percentage for Human Development is at 75%. It says that the Human Development has increased up four places which is very important. It shows to the people around the world that Algeria is improving in the life expectancy, literacy, school enrollment and income levels of population. These are all very important in a country.

__Algeria's Rankings and Scores.__ 2010 Ibrahim index score- 55 Safety and Rule of law- 54 Personal safety-51 Rule of law- 47 Accountability and corruption- 42 National security-76 Participation and human rights- 37 Participation- 17 Rights- 41 Gender- 54 Sustainable Economic opportunity- 55 Public Management- 70 Private Sector- 52 Infrastructure- 37 Environment and the Rural Sector- 59 Human Development 75 Health and Welfare- 76 Education- 73
 * __The 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governance__**

__**-2010 Ibrahim index rank- 15th**__

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