Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Algeria now has an even greater reputation for corruption than when President Abdelaziz Bouteflika took over in 1999...

From 24-27 February he was in Algiers to negotiate an oil and gas technical assistance agreement with the government of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

Yet despite budget cuts and security concerns the news from Algiers will continue to be dominated by 77-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's repeated hospitalisations and reported illness (AC Vol 55 No 12 Adrift in dangerous waters)...

Another candidate would have been Boumedienne's long-serving but then still young Minister of Foreign Affairs one Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

However the extent of this year's violence in the isolated town of M'zab and the intensity of media coverage helped to show Algerians the potential for renewed conflict were President Abdelaziz Bouteflika not to be re-elected (AC Vol 55 No 12 Take the lead if you can)...

Ahmed Gaïd Salah a key ally of the ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

Sarkozy's indulgence of French right-wingers seeking to whitewash the brutalities of colonial action in Algeria cost him the country's goodwill and gave President Abdelaziz Bouteflika an excuse to play the populist nationalist card in domestic politics...

It may have been a landslide but President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's April election victory failed to convince...

US Secretary of State John Kerry asked in person for security cooperation maintaining a fixed stare as he put a positive spin on his face-to-face meeting with an incapacitated President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (see Feature Adrift in dangerous waters)...

Usually President Abdelaziz Bouteflika shows little interest in Sub-Saharan diplomacy but for the first time he has a foreign minister with a real understanding of African issues and extensive contacts – Ramtane Lamamra the former African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security whom he appointed in September...

The run-up to the summit was marked by debate over which presidents were not coming such as South Africa's Jacob Zuma Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe (enraged that his wife Grace Mugabe was denied an invitation) and invalids such as Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara...