The mediators now are Ahmed Ouyahia representing the OAU Chairperson Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika plus Anthony Lake Special Envoy of United States President Bill Clinton...
The sole Minister of State is former Premier and RND grandee Ahmed Ouyahia at Justice...
Vol 40 No 22 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
OAU special envoy Ahmed Ouyahia on his fourth visit to both countries at the end of October made no progress...
The other four had easier missions: Belaïd Abdesselam to Ghana; Bachir Moumaaza to Ethiopia Uganda Mozambique and Madagascar; Abdelkader Bensallah to North Africa and the Horn; Ahmed Ouyahia to East and Southern Africa...
Manoeuvring in recent months has thrust forward at least four candidates: two civilian politicians whose claims would require strong backing from military power-brokers serving Premier Ahmed Ouyahia and former Premier Mokdad Sifi; plus the powerful Betchine a former military security boss and the RND Secretary General elected in April Mohamed Tahar Benbaïeche who cut his teeth as a leading member of the formerly ruling Front de Libération Nationale's Islamoconservative wing...
A quiet meeting in Oran on 18 August between the Moroccan and Algerian Prime Ministers Abderrahmane El Youssoufi and Ahmed Ouyahia was intended to ease months of rising tensions over Algerian claims that a Moroccan Groupe Islamique Armé was fermenting rebellion on the kingdom's eastern frontier and persistent differences over Western Sahara (AC Vol 39 No 9)...
The episode may embarrass Premier Ahmed Ouyahia' sgovernment whichhaspromoted the patriot groups despite opposition from the military establishment...
Vol 38 No 25 |
- ALGERIA
- MOROCCO
In Algeria Sheikh Mahfoud Nahnah's Harakat Moushtama Issilm (HMI ex-Hamas) and Abdallah Djeballah's Ennahda (Renaissance) parties hold over 100 seats and seven HMI ministers sit in Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia's coalition government...
Vol 38 No 14 |
- NORTH AFRICA
The new government announced on 25 June keeps General Zeroual's aide Ahmed Ouyahia as Prime Minister with such close allies as Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf Justice Minister Mohamed Adami Interior Minister Mostefa Benmansour and Finance Minister Abdelkrim Harchaoui...
General Zeroual has kept Ahmed Ouyahia as Prime Minister to pilot the government through local elections later this summer...