Ward is sitting opposite Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who is asking for a ‘strategic relationship’ with the USA in the region as well as partnership in the fight against AQIM...
Rarely does a week go by without front-page coverage in the state newspapers of Mugabe’s latest foray: greeting Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the Group of Fourteen meeting in Tehran Iran then a quick ‘shopover’ for Grace Mugabe in Dubai United Arab Emirates; gatecrashing the World Economic Forum meeting in Dar es Salaam Tanzania at which Mutambara and Tsvangirai were invited participants last month; a wedding party in Malawi with his ally President Bingu wa Mutharika; a visit to Senegal ably facilitated by Ambassador Trudy Stevenson (nominated by the Movement for Democratic Change MDC); and attending the World Cup kick-off in Soweto on 11 June...
Presidential son Alaa el Din Mohamed Hosni Sayed Mubarak led Egypt’s abuse of Algeria during the November-December World Cup soccer war which pitted him against Algeria’s Saïd Bouteflika (President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s brother and preferred successor)...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 8 |
- ALGERIA
- CHINA
Chinese companies are caught in the political crossfire between President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his opponents in the military and intelligence services led by General Mohammed ‘Tewfik’ Mediene...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 |
- ALGERIA
- CHINA
- INDIA
The probes which started last September are driven partly by a power struggle between President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and some top generals...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 |
- ALGERIA
- CHINA
- INDIA
There are four main strands to the sweeping the anti-corruption investigations launched in the wake of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s win with 90% of the votes cast in the elections on 9 April 2009: the review of the East-West Highway project now costed at over US$12 billion; the review of more than $3bn...
Vol 50 No 24 |
- ALGERIA
- EGYPT
We hear that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had considered a special forces intervention if Algeria lost a group play-off match to decide Africa's last qualifier in Khartoum Sudan...
Since there was no heavyweight candidate to stand against him it was little surprise that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 90...
According to the official result confirmed by the Constitutional Council on 14 April President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 90...
Vol 50 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
North African no show Most said that it was North Africa's turn and Gadaffi was the only available candidate: Mauritania is suspended; Tunisia's President Zein el Abidine Ben Ali never turns up; Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has bad memories of the Sudanese government-sponsored assassination attempt on him in Addis Ababa in 1995; Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was 'indisposed'...