Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika encouraged by Chief of Staff Mohamed Lamari paid an unexpected visit in late February to Polisario camps near Tindouf the first such visit by an Algerian president since the mid-1970s...

Nevertheless some recent arms purchases suggest that the military clique behind President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has wider aims than defeating the GIA and Hassan Hattab's Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)...

The NePAD implementation committee headed by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika are designing an African contract on codes and standards of both economic and political governance ­ legal guarantees on property free and fair elections...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fresh from courting the United States for military and diplomatic support after 11 September is pressing Paris for more security and financial cooperation...

The Presidents of Algeria Egypt and Tunisia Abdelaziz Bouteflika Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine Ben Ali got an unexpected boost from the atrocities of 11 September...

While President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was regularly conferring with United States President George Bush on the war against terrorism his regime's enemies were working to save victims in the densely populated neighbourhood of Bab el Oued worst affected with around 650 deaths...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika although nurturing closer ties with Washington since 11 September insisted the US African Growth and Opportunity Act shouldn't discriminate between sub-Saharan and North Africans...

Britain - an Islamist rear base Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika this year asked for US arms to 'fight terrorism'; Algiers also wants some exiled Islamists returned 'for questioning' in exchange for people wanted by the US government...

Presidents Thabo Mbeki Olusegun Obasanjo and Abdelaziz Bouteflika will present the plan to the G8 summit in Genoa Italy on 21-22 July...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has again threatened to resign as Kabyle protests mobilise hundreds of thousands of demonstrators and rival power-brokers enfeeble his presidency...