Abdelaziz Bouteflika

In the eyes of their peers Morocco's King Mohammed VI and Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika are neophytes although to their people they look like political fixtures (AC Vol 49 No 25)...

Despite free-falling prices for crude oil exports officials say there is plenty to finance President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's social and physical infrastructure development plans including the ‘grands projets' that will provide the ‘Boutef' legacy...

This adds to tensions with Algeria which has been the main backer of the the Saharawi liberation movement the Polisario Front since it was founded in the mid-1970s and strongly supported by Algeria’s then Foreign Minister and now President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

Despite free-falling prices for crude oil exports officials say there is plenty to finance President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s social and physical infrastructure development plans including the ‘grands projets’ that will provide the ‘Boutef’ legacy...

This adds to tensions with Algeria which has been the main backer of the the Saharawi liberation movement the Polisario Front since it was founded in the mid-1970s and strongly supported by Algeria’s then Foreign Minister and now President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

With Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Wu talked up infrastructure and energy...

Following in the footsteps of Namibia’s President Sam Nujoma and Cameroon’s President Paul Biya President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has joined the roster of African presidents who have persuaded their parliaments to end or extend the constitutional limits on the number of terms a president may serve...

Algeria starts 2008 haunted by the threat of a return to wide-ranging Islamist terrorism and political inertia as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika looks set to change the constitution to secure a third term in power...

Many worry about the upsurge in terrorism at home and persistent reports about President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's health...

Though Franco-Algerian relations are much trickier President Abdelaziz Bouteflika congratulated Sarkozy calling him a 'man of action and conviction'...

The Algiers rumour mill suggests that pressure on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has led to a recurrence of health problems for Algeria's dominant political player: Bouteflika who thrives on publicity has not always been visible at crucial moments...