Algeria’s former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika: towering figure, both in regional, international politics
BY: Hana Saada PEJOURNAL - Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika died, late Friday, September 17th, 2021, at the age of 84 after enduring years of ill health, reported the Algerian Presidency of the Republic late Friday. To this end, the late Bouteflika was buried, Sunday, in the Martyrs’ Square in El-Alia cemetery. The late Bouteflika, a veteran of Algeria’s war for independence, had taken Algeria’s reign of power for two decades before his resignation in April 2019. He joined the independence war against France at the age of 19 as a protege of commander Boumediene, who became president in 1965.…