🇩🇿 Are the ghosts of Algeria's brutal civil war shadowing political crisis? | Al Jazeera Englis

For the last two weeks, tens of thousands of Algerians have been protesting against the attempt of its 82-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to run for a fifth term.

Algeria's military chief has been referring to the country's civil war of the 1990s that came to be known as Algeria's "Black Decade". It began in 1992 with a military coup, which prevented the opposition Islamic Salvation Front from winning a second round of what was meant to be the country's first democratic election.

The war that ensued killed 200,000 people and injured many more.

Furthermore, 15,000 Algerians also disappeared.

Dalia Ghanem Yazbeck, an Algerian Political Analyst and Resident Scholar at Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, talks to Al Jazeera about whether the shadow of the country's civil war still hangs over the political crisis.

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