Algerian Candidate Hassani Cherif's Campaign Says it Recorded Election Violations

Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
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Algerian Candidate Hassani Cherif's Campaign Says it Recorded Election Violations

Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, leader of the moderate Islamist Movement of the Society for Peace (MSP) and presidential candidate, gestures as he casts his vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria September 7, 2024. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

Algerian presidential candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif's campaign said in a statement on Sunday that it had recorded cases of violations in the country's Saturday presidential election, initial results of which have yet to be announced, Reuters reported.

The campaign said the violations included putting pressure on some polling station officials to inflate the results, failure to deliver vote-sorting records to the candidates' representatives, and instances of proxy group voting.

Algerians voted on Saturday in an election in which military-backed President Abdulmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term.



Pact for $4.5 Mln Signed to Aid 4,400 Stranded Gazans in West Bank

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 08 September 2024. (EPA)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 08 September 2024. (EPA)
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Pact for $4.5 Mln Signed to Aid 4,400 Stranded Gazans in West Bank

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 08 September 2024. (EPA)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 08 September 2024. (EPA)

The Qatar Red Crescent and the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) signed an agreement on Sunday, with $4.5 million from a Qatari state development fund, to aid more than 4,400 stranded Palestinian workers and patients from Gaza in the West Bank.

"Cash assistance will represent vital support for those displaced who have not been able to return to the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Strip last October," a statement from the Qatar's state news agency said.

"Thousands of Palestine refugees from Gaza remain trapped in the West Bank, trapped in this crisis situation, stranded from their loved ones and livelihoods," UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said.

Since Israel's blockade of Gaza began in 2007, movement in and out of the Strip has been heavily restricted, forcing individuals to seek medical care, education, or jobs in the West Bank, while escalating violence often closes borders, trapping those in need of essential services.