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Algeria announces food price cuts to quell riots
11.01.2011 09:42 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Algeria’s government said it would slash the cost of some staple foods on Saturday to try to quell four days of rioting, triggered by price rises, which killed two people and wounded several hundred.
Government ministers met to discuss how to respond to the unrest. As they did so, fresh protests broke out in two cities in Kabylie region east of Algiers, witnesses said by phone.
In its first detailed response to the worst rioting in energy exporter Algeria in years, the government said it would cut import duties and tax on sugar and cooking oil, focus of much of the anger over price rises.
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