{"id":691610,"date":"2019-08-26T06:40:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Cape Town \u2014 Algeria's culture minister has resigned after the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a rap concert, the BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-co"},"modified":"2019-08-26T06:40:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T06:40:29","slug":"algeria-culture-minister-resigns-after-deadly-stampede-at-rap-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/26\/algeria-culture-minister-resigns-after-deadly-stampede-at-rap-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria: Culture Minister Resigns After Deadly Stampede at Rap Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Cape Town \u2014 Algeria&#8217;s culture minister has resigned after the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a rap concert, the BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Meriem Merdaci&#8217;s resignation follows public outrage over Thursday&#8217;s stampede in Algiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Arab News reports that Merdaci handed her resignation to interim president Abdelkader Bensalah, \u201cwho accepted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Thousands had gathered at a stadium to see Abderraouf Derradji, better known as Soolking, perform when a stampede broken out at one of the entrances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The head of the public body in charge of organising concerts, Sami Benchik el Hocine, was sacked on Friday, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Thursday night\u2019s stampede at the August-20 Stadium killed five people aged between 13 and 22, says Arab News, which also reports that Soolking is a major star in the North African country. His song \u201cLa Liberte\u201d (Freedom) is a mainstay of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The concert went ahead and was broadcast live on Algerian TV, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 Algeria&#8217;s culture minister has resigned after the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a rap concert, the BBC reports. Meriem Merdaci&#8217;s resignation follows public outrage over Thursday&#8217;s stampede in Algiers. Arab News reports that Merdaci handed her resignation to interim president Abdelkader Bensalah, \u201cwho accepted it.\u201d Thousands had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Algeria: Culture Minister Resigns After Deadly Stampede at Rap Concert - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/26\/algeria-culture-minister-resigns-after-deadly-stampede-at-rap-concert\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Algeria: Culture Minister Resigns After Deadly Stampede at Rap Concert - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Cape Town \u2014 Algeria&#8217;s culture minister has resigned after the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a rap concert, the BBC reports. 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