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Baya Gacemi, born in Annaba in 1949,died at Villejuif April 25 2010  is an Algerian journaliste.

Biography
She was born in 1949 Annaba( was called Bone at the time),at the beginning of the Mediterranean and the feet of Edough,in the Column district .She studied first in her hometown, at Sadi-Carnot primary school, then at that of the Wheat Market, and at Saint-Augustin high school (which had not changed its name).Then she finished her secondary studies in Algiers and studies higher psychology at the Capital University. She then pursued studies in political science and iinternational law in Paris.

Back in Algeria, she worked as a journalist in the weekly "Algérie-Actualité" from 1985. She then worked for the editorial team of the weekly L'Observateur, then La Nation, which she left in 1994 She then participated in the creation and start-up of the daily La Tribune and became its editorial director until the newspaper's suspension in 1996. In 1996, she was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for "offense against the 'national emblem', following the publication in her journal of a drawing by the cartoonist Chawki Amari, representing,Algerian colors, a few days before the Independence Day, July 5, two passers-by in a street in the capital, . The first asks the second the reasons for the display: "Is it for July 5? " "No", replies the second "they are hanging their dirty laundry! "

Then she gave a new turn to her career by becoming freelance. She is notably a correspondent in Algiers for the French magazine L’Express, and other foreign media, covering in particular the Algerian civil war. In 1998, she published a book which recalls the testimony of a woman of a leader of an Islamic group, on this civil war. The book was translated into several languages ​​and achieved record sales at the Algiers International Book Fair a year and a half later. In 1999, she was part of the campaign team of Mouloud Hamrouche, candidate for the presidency, who finally resigned, at the end of the campaign, because of alleged fraud by the authorities. It supports the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights. In 2000 and 2001, she fell under the wrath of power, and slanders of the official press, following a trip to Israel with seven other journalists and a university student6,7. In 2004, she relaunched a new journalistic project. She creates a satirical publication, L’Epoque. But its publication was stopped a year later, faced with financial difficulties. In the last issue of this press title, the caricaturist and chronicler Chawki Amari paints a vivid and vitriolic portrait of his boss there. In 2006, she received the international Omar-Ouartilene

She died in April 2010 at Gustave Rousset Hospital in Villejuif, near Paris, and was buried in Annaba, her hometown.

Main publication

 * Nadia, woman of an emir of the GIA ', 1998, Seuil editors.