ALGIERS -- Algeria's governing party strengthened its rule in parliamentary elections this week, officials announced Friday, dampening hopes that the vote might bolster the standing of opposition voices and eliciting audible gasps of skepticism from many of those who heard the results at a hilltop hotel here. An alliance of moderate Islamist...
CAIRO -- From the crowded, run-down streets of Cairo to the oil-financed halls of power in Kuwait, Arab leaders appear increasingly rattled by the unfolding events in Tunisia and elsewhere in the Arab world, where men continued to set themselves on fire -- two more in Egypt on Tuesday, and a third who was stopped. Though the streets of Cairo,...
CAIRO -- The self-immolation of a 26-year-old Tunisian man a month ago that set off a popular uprising is inspiring similar acts of gruesome protest across North Africa. In Algeria, four men have set themselves on fire in the last week, and one man in Egypt and another in Mauritania tried to do so on Monday. They appear to be evidence of how deeply...
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (arabisk: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة) (født 2. marts 1937 i Oujda, Marokko) er Algeriets præsident siden 1999.
Han er valgt for det socialistiske parti Front de Libération Nationale.
Før han blev præsident arbejdede han som sekretær for den daværende præsident Houari Boumédienne.