Abdelaziz Bouteflika

In Algeria where the 81-year-old and incapacitated President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will probably stand for and win re-election in April le pouvoir has stifled opposition with a mix of largesse from some of Africa's biggest foreign reserves and the fist of the deep security state...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's quiet mid-January visit to his cardiologist in Grenoble reminded Algerians that for all the country's economic and social problems politics remains dominated by one issue: the health of the 81-year-old raïs...

This was Abdelaziz Bouteflika's rallying call to mark this year's 64th anniversary but what all but the most blinkered Algerians saw at the formal wreath-laying at El Alia Cemetery was a wheelchair-bound and apparently extremely infirm octogenarian...

'I do not see anybody apart from the current leader of another party of the majority… who could fill Abdelaziz Bouteflika's chair ' said Ziari an FLN politburo member arguing that the ruling party was in 'disrepair' and lacked any credible alternatives to the incumbent...

Only in Algeria could a surge in calls for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to stand for a fifth term in the 2019 presidential election trigger speculation that the 81-year-old raïs's health is even worse than previously thought and that according to the Algiers rumour mill he may even be dead (AC Vol 59 No 1 Cold war and glacial change)...

He is President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's envoy to various Libyan factions and tormentor-in-chief of Rabat...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has given the campaign his personal blessing...

Front de libération nationale (FLN) loyalists are arguing for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's re-election even though he has been enfeebled since a stroke in 2013...

With the brutal sacking on 14 August of Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune after only three months in office the 'presidential clan' of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika once again showed it would brook no grandstanding from politicians or 'unnecessary publicity' about corruption and patronage...

Different strokesBy comparison to Buhari Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has virtually disappeared from public view for almost three years since suffering a debilitating stroke...

As is traditional television recorded President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's vote at Bachir el Ibrahimi primary school in El Biar...