Check out the last paragraph. I don't understand what it's saying.



Gas price hike sparks riots in Algeria

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Wednesday, January 19, 2005



ALGIERS: Rioting has erupted south of the Algerian capital and in the volatile Kabylie region over the government's plans to increase gas prices, newspaper reports said here on Tuesday.

Hundreds of youths on Monday trashed and set fire to public buildings in the town of Birine, in the Djelfa region 270 kilometers south of Algiers, in protest to the decision to hike prices in mid-winter. Security forces used tear gas against the demonstrators, carrying out several arrests, the reports said. Meanwhile in the northeastern Kabylie region, angry demonstrators in the town of Kherrata reportedly blockaded the region's main road.

Butane gas and fuel oil are the only sources of energy available to inhabitants of Algeria's remote mountainous regions and high plateaus. The government's decision to hike the price of from 170 to 200 dinars goes against a recommendation from the national Parliament.

 

I have some contracts you could read over and over and not understand.

 

I think it could have been easier for us to understand if it was written as follows:

"100 people were killed in Kabylie in 2001, due to violence which, apparently, had previously been displayed as lesser "hostilities" to the Algiers authorities.

Over the weekend an agreement was reached between the government officials in Algiers and the tribal leaders in the Kabylie region.

Some of the concessions demanded by the ethnic Berbers included that the authorities officially recognize their language (which is different than that spoken in the majority of Algiers) and that they provide economic support for the region as well."

Hope that helped a little...

BTW, why are you asking about this ??

 

Thank you, that was a great help. My economics class has a paper due thursday, where I have to summarize an article and add my own opinion including some stuff I am learning in class.

 

Or you could say that 'hostility turned to violence'.

 

Raggin' da pigs be ugly man n' da Kabylie Hood man. Lotsa bros bought it man, n' lotsa bros clipped.

Da Man bowed down to da' bros in da' hood, slappin' 'em wit da' Benjamins n' diggin' der rap.

Word.

 

OR .... you could summarize as such :
" the world is full of uneducated twits "

 

haha, that's a good one.

Thanks for the help