qaid (plural qaids) Alternative spelling of caid. It would be more difficult to remove a who had a diploma. Unreliable and corrupt were certainly removed from time to time but they were always hard to control because they knew their areas far better than officers of the Affaires Indigènes did, and easily dominated the jemaas. More @Wikipedia
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