But in the countryside, the killing continues, albeit on a less awful scale than a few years ago.In this section Bouteflika's bid for concord Buck passing Diamond king A gentler Middle Eastern Islam?
"Their only experience of competition is Coke and Pepsi," snorts a western ambassador.If things do go awry, Mr Bouteflika's stitched-up "civil concord" will come under strain.
He has used the "civil concord" initiative, which he launched in July, more as a vehicle to rally political support than to pacify the country.
Mining will not make them rich but it pays better than farming.In this section Bouteflika's bid for concord Buck passing Diamond king A gentler Middle Eastern Islam?
They show that "civil concord" is a myth so the army must keep control.More worrying for the generals, say diplomats, is the number of soldiers killed by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which operates in the centre of the country.
IF ALGERIANS needed a reminder that their country's ordeal was not yet over, despite President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's talk of "national concord", it came this week with the assassination of a respected Islamist leader, Abdelkader Hachani.
"We want to be seen as an opposition force and not as a resistance movement, and to work from within the system rather than seek to overthrow it".In this section Bouteflika's bid for concord Buck passing Diamond king A gentler Middle Eastern Islam?
The two have friends and supporters elsewhere including the union movement, a link that owes more to a shared knack for machine politics than any ideological concord (Mr Balls accepts that many cuts cannot be repealed).
The present outbreak of inter-party concord is anyway mostly a sham.
One is USDAW, whose partnership agreement with the supermarket Tesco (Britain's largest private-sector employer) is a model of union-management concord.
They say that he does not consult with people, that he travels abroad too much and, most damningly, that his "civil concord" peace initiative has failed.
