Algeria's Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has ordered a ban on civil servants wearing niqabs (full-face veils) at work, citing reasons of identification.
Although
most Algerian women don't wear the face veil, the decision is likely to
be criticised by the conservative Salafist minority, who follow a
strict version of Islam.
The
North African country has been split between moderate and more radical
forms of Islam since it was plunged into years of civil war in 1992,
when a military-backed government cancelled elections that an Islamist
party was poised to win.
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