Many neutrals question how Khalifa could rise so high without patronage from the top - commanded now as during Khalifa's prime by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his circle of close aides...
To tackle that ATT chose Prime Minister Ousmane Issoufi Maïga who has known Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika since the early 1960s...
Vol 48 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
After a row over Lebanon at the 2006 Bucharest Summit the presence of Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak in Cannes was a personal success for Chirac; Cairo has offered to host the next summit in 2009...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Despite continuing health concerns President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has assured Algerians that he is well that he will retire when everything becomes too much and that the constitution should be changed so he can serve a third term after 2009...
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has spent much of the last three months in the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris being treated for what was eventually announced to be a gastric ulcer...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
ALGERIA: Also giving pause for thought about mortality and democracy is Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika whose flight to Paris on 26 November for emergency medical treatment at Val-de-Grâce military hospital and subsequent stay in France through December prompted huge concern...
Despite recent meetings by 'M6' with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika the Western Sahara conflict still makes life uncomfortable for Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaïssa Minister of State Taieb Fassi Fihri and other diplomats (AC Vol 46 No 1 Vol 45 Nos 19 & 13)...
On 22-23 March Algiers hosts the League of Arab States summit and will consummate its return to the top table of Arab politics or so President Abdelaziz Bouteflika believes...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Both Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali won big election victories in 2004...
The African National Congress has long maintained ties with Polisario's main backer Algeria a legacy of its own liberation struggle more recently nurtured by Mbeki's close relationship with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...