Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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...

Parliamentary elections will be held next year reshuffles in the military-security establishment are expected and the politics of the elite are spiced up by the prospect of the 2014 presidential poll when three-term President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is expected to stand aside amid much speculation about his health...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was President Houari Boumedienne’s Foreign Minister from the time of his military coup that overthrew Ahmed Ben Bella in 1965 until his death in December 1978 during which time he had continual dealings with Gadaffi...

By this account Gadaffi tried to telephone President Abdelaziz Bouteflika but the Algerian leader refused to take the call...

The elite concentrates on the succession to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika even if he stays well enough to see out his third term to 2014...

’ Yet he conceded that King Mohammed VI (‘M6’) of Morocco would not give up his claim to the Western Sahara and that Algeria was highly unlikely to give up backing Polisario at least while President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was around...

However President Abdelaziz Bouteflika looks less rattled than his neighbours...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his government have responded cautiously to the shock waves from Tunis and Cairo...