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  On Friday 22 February 2020, Algerians will have been demonstrating peacefully every Friday for an entire year. 22 February 2019 saw millions of Algerians take to the streets across the country, with their children, their banners, and their sense of humour to demand that Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the then president, step down and that the entire political junta go with him. Eventually, they won a first battle. Bouteflika did go. But the old guards remain and Friday demonstrations continue til today. To remember how Algerians got here, the journalist Lynda Abbou has retraced the past, to the few days before 22 February and the beginning of a revolution. Lynda Abbou's article was published in French in the Algerian online press (see source below). It retraces an important chronology of events, and it is translated here to English to help it gain wider readership. Source: "Ces évènements qui ont annoncé la révolution du 22 février" by Lynda Abbou on Maghreb Emergent, pos