Former Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after two decades in power, dies at age 84 - state media
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika waits to greet Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on his arrival in Algiers on December 11, 2011.
Bouteflika had suffered a stroke in 2013 that badly weakened him. Concerns about his state of health, kept secret from the Algerian public, helped feed public frustration with his 20-year, corruption-tarnished rule. Mass public protests by the Hirak movement led to his departure.Bouteflika took office in 1999, Algeria’s first civilian leader in more than three decades.
It marked a turnaround from the militantly anti-American, Soviet-armed Algeria of years past when figures like Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver took refuge there.
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