Supporters of President Abdelmajid Tebboune backed by army Chief of Staff Major General Saïd Chengriha have presided over the crushing of the oligarch culture that thrived under Abdelaziz Bouteflika forced out of office by popular protests in April 2019...
Leading from the top Leading from the top Developments since President Abdelmajid Tebboune's election last December have been led from the top as in previous decades (AC Vol 61 No 2 Desperately seeking legitimacy)...
There was something for everyone to celebrate on Independence Day 5 July as President Abdelmajid Tebboune named 74-year-old Major General Saïd Chengriha as his permanent Chief of Staff (AC Vol 61 No 13 Locking down the system)...
President Abdelmajid Tebboune's government is emerging from the coronavirus crisis financially much poorer but more politically secure as the lockdown has given the post-Abdelaziz Bouteflika regime opportunities to entrench itself while fighting the disease (AC Vol 61 No 2 Desperately seeking legitimacy)...
The changing of the guard in Algeria in December had also promised reformist momentum in the oil and gas sector with the implementation of a new hydrocarbons code among the first legislative acts of President Abdelmajid Tebboune's government...
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El Hirak may have observed President Abdelmajid Tebboune's 17 March ban on public gatherings but popular opposition isn't going away...
In the new constellation of power in Algiers several sources say that the late military strongman Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaïd Salah's successor Major General Saïd Chengriha has control of key security portfolios including the Sahara rather than new civilian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune...
The sudden death on 23 December of military strongman Lieutenant-General Ahmed Gaïd Salah may prove more significant for Algeria's future than the election on 12 December of a civilian president former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune...
The gap between Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his rivals in the 12 December presidential election was sufficient to give the 73-year-old a big win with 58...
What one government source described as this 'acceptable establishment' line-up includes former prime ministers Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Ali Benflis ex-Culture Minister and interim Rassemblement national démocratique (RND) leader Azzedine Mihoubi former Mouvement de la Societé pour la Paix (MSP) Tourism Minister Abdelkader Bengrina and the leader of the tiny Front El Moustakbal party Abdelaziz Belaïd...
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...
