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North African Star

revolutionary movement, Algeria

Also known as: Étoile nord-africaine

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role of Messali Hadj

In Ahmed Messali Hadj
…group, the Étoile Nord-Africaine (North African Star), was dissolved by the French in 1929 after he called for revolt against their colonial rule. In the mid-1930s he founded the Parti Populaire Algérien (PPA; Algerian Popular Party), which was suppressed only to reemerge in 1946 as the Mouvement pour le…
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