Even if President Abdelaziz Bouteflika doesn't obtain a fourth mandate after Algeria's 17 April election – which no one considers likely – most Algerian and Moroccan sources canvassed by Africa Confidential believe the antipathy that has kept the borders closed since 1994 will remain for years to come...
Inconceivable though it seemed only a few months ago that the enfeebled 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika could stand again after his stroke that is exactly what he is likely to do (AC Vol 54 No 15 Leadership in limbo & Vol 54 No 19 Boutef's miracle return)...
Abdelaziz Bouteflika's proposed re-election is evidence that the dominant factions have agreed a way ahead for want of any better plan...
'Complementarity'Algeria's Foreign Minister Lamamra speaking on behalf of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika called for 'greater complementarity' between the UN and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the context of the 'peace security and development triad'...
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...