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 by AFP Staff Writers Algiers (AFP) May 15, 2022
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high treason", the French-language daily El Watan reported Sunday. Guermit Bounouira, who was known to be close to late army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah, appeared Thursday in front of an appeals court where he was found guilty of a roster of charges including disclosing classified information to third parties or states and harming the army's interests. While courts continue to hand out death sentences in Algeria, there has been a moratorium on capital punishment since 1993. Bounouira, who served as the once-powerful Gaid Salah's private secretary for a time, was extradited to Algeria by Turkey in 2020. Gaid Salah died of a heart attack in 2019, having played a key role as a powerbroker after longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was swept from power earlier that year. According to El Watan, Bounouira was accused of taking possession of classified military documents and using them to bargain for protected status. Former chief of the gendarmerie, Ghali Belksir, was sentenced to life in prison in the same case. The court also handed the same sentence to Larbi Zitout, a leading figure in the Islamist movement Rashad, based abroad after having been branded a terrorist organisation by Algerian authorities in 2021. Several high-ranking Algerian officers are wanted or have been sentenced by military courts on charges of corruption.
DR Congo leader criticises army failure to quell eastern militia Kinshasa (AFP) May 13, 2022 The Democratic Republic of Congo's president has blamed failure to quell a militia in the east of the country on army incompetence or complicity with the group, state television reported Friday. Addressing an army seminar in the capital Kinshasa on Thursday, President Felix Tshisekedi said the scale of insecurity in the eastern province of Ituri was incommensurate with increased military funding. "Either our army is incapable, or else these bandits from CODECO, a conglomeration of criminals, ben ... read more
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