Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Enfeebled by an illness that hospitalised him in Paris between April and July and limited public appearances to stage-managed photo-shoots President Abdelaziz Bouteflika began the political rentrée as yesterday's man...

The return of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to Algiers on 16 July after nearly three months of medical treatment in Paris resolved neither the questions about his health nor the future leadership of Algeria...

Key to improving security in northern Mali and across the region is the triangular relationship between Hollande Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Mali’s President Dioncounda Traoré...

There is no evidence that Algeria was complicit in the Sanogo- Ag Ghaly deal although it may have suited President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s government which saw France’s intervention as exacerbating instability in the region...

That’s partly why British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on 30 January and signed a new regional security cooperation pact...

The political elite around President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the military-security establishment certainly hope so...

Fabius was the first to call on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika followed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who arrived in Algiers for top level talks on 29 October...

Algeria’s intelligence on AQIM and its role in regional security (it has said publicly that it will not join the intervention) will be top of the agenda in the meeting in Algiers between Presidents Abdelaziz Bouteflika and François Hollande on 20 October...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s health is poor and a presidential election before 2014 cannot be ruled out...

His Algerian counterpart Mourad Medelci reciprocated and Benkirane held talks with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa in January...