As so often the regime is using the security services and compliant courts to eliminate opposition and factional rivals of the current dominant group led by Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Saïd Chengriha and the powerful presidential office head Boualem Boualem who is widely believed to wield more influence over decision-making than the ‘symbolic president' Tebboune (AC Vol 62 No 12 Cracking down on the Hirak)...
CHENGRIHA'S RISEA striking appointment in Tebboune's 18 November post-election reshuffle was that of Lieutenant General Saïd Chengriha as minister delegate for defence a powerful position in Algeria...
Several well-connected sources have told Africa Confidential that key players – including Tebboune's erstwhile ally Armée Nationale Populaire (ANP) chief of staff Major-General Saïd Chengriha – have become alienated from the president...
It is key to the regional policy of President Abdelmajid Tebboune and military Chief of Staff Major General Saïd Chengriha as a stick with which to beat regional rival Morocco (AC Vol 63 No 9 Navigating through the fog of cold war)...
Algeria's military exercises near the Moroccan border with Russian forces make a point of shooting down mock drones much to Chief of Staff Major General Saïd Chengriha's publicly expressed pleasure (AC Vol 63 No 17 Rabat and Algiers cross swords over UN role)...
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Levels of growth employment creation and service delivery are dangerously low across the Maghreb where politics are moulded by angry figures such as Major-General Saïd Chengriha...
It was assumed by chief of staff Major-General Saïd Chengriha that the billions of dollars spent in Moscow had created a force with sufficient firepower to overwhelm Morocco...
Current military strongman Voroshilov Staff Academy graduate Major-General Saïd Chengriha has two main concerns...
These underline Tebboune's claims to be cleaning up a rotten system backed by current military strongman armed forces chief of staff Major-General Saïd Chengriha...
The officer who signed off on his removal Lieutenant-General Ahmed Gaïd Salah himself died in December 2019 but his successor from the gerontocracy 76-year-old Major-General Saïd Chengriha has been accumulating power (AC Vol 61 No 2 Desperately seeking legitimacy)...
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- ALGERIA
- MOROCCO
His successor Major-General Saïd Chengriha is powerful but not to the extent of Gaïd Salah or the most feared security strongman of all the now retired Mohammed 'Tewfik' Medienne...