A 'big three' alliance of elected Presidents - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika Nigeria's Obasanjo and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki - set out to rebuild respect for the OAU...
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika re-established Algeria's anti-colonial credentials and marketed the country as a dynamic economy at the junction between Africa Europe and the Middle East...
Few leaders seem to think this necessary but Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Tripoli would be a 'show of solidarity' with Libya...
After some tense weeks following the controversial elections President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is promising a peace deal facilitated by an improbable alliance between radical Islamists and senior security officers...
Although the establishment candidate Abdelaziz Bouteflika won the manner of his victory in the 15 April presidential election – with the authorities failing to bludgeon any of his six rivals into competing – led the Algiers rumour mill to suggest that 'Boutef' may be in office for only for a matter of months...
The front-running candidate Abdelaziz Bouteflika is backed by veteran establishment jobbers such as retired Generals Larbi Belkheir former President Chadli Bendjedid’s chief aide and Khaled Nezzar who as Chief-of-Staff in January 1992 ordered Chadli’s overthrow...