Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Once four-time premier Ahmed Ouyahia was seen as a possible successor to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

Over the 20 years before President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned on 2 April Algeria-watchers took to comparing the political outlook to making mayonnaise...

People power on a scale not seen in 30 years forced elderly and infirm President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to agree not to stand for a fifth term of office...

This flexibility and agility of the protestors has inspired the fast-growing movement in Algeria which demands the departure of four-term President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

In Algeria where the 81-year-old and incapacitated President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will probably stand for and win re-election in April le pouvoir has stifled opposition with a mix of largesse from some of Africa's biggest foreign reserves and the fist of the deep security state...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's quiet mid-January visit to his cardiologist in Grenoble reminded Algerians that for all the country's economic and social problems politics remains dominated by one issue: the health of the 81-year-old raïs...

This was Abdelaziz Bouteflika's rallying call to mark this year's 64th anniversary but what all but the most blinkered Algerians saw at the formal wreath-laying at El Alia Cemetery was a wheelchair-bound and apparently extremely infirm octogenarian...

'I do not see anybody apart from the current leader of another party of the majority… who could fill Abdelaziz Bouteflika's chair ' said Ziari an FLN politburo member arguing that the ruling party was in 'disrepair' and lacked any credible alternatives to the incumbent...

Only in Algeria could a surge in calls for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to stand for a fifth term in the 2019 presidential election trigger speculation that the 81-year-old raïs's health is even worse than previously thought and that according to the Algiers rumour mill he may even be dead (AC Vol 59 No 1 Cold war and glacial change)...

He is President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's envoy to various Libyan factions and tormentor-in-chief of Rabat...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has given the campaign his personal blessing...