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Algeria’s first post-Bouteflika leader, interim President Abdelkader Bensalah, dies aged 79F

Veteran Algerian politician Abdelkader Bensalah, who served briefly as interim president after his mentor Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign in 2019, died Wednesday aged 79, the president's office said.  His death after what friends said was a long illness came...
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Algeria buries ex-president Bouteflika in muted funeralF

By Abdellah Cheballah with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country's longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors.   Bouteflika...
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Morocco: Premiership swings to pro-monarchy partyF

Does it really matter? By Arezki Daoud: The press often spends too much ink on such ministerial appointments, and although selecting a PM in the UK or Spain, for example, is a big deal, in places like Morocco, Egypt and Algeria, it really means nothing. In Morocco,...
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Egypt: Sisi hosts Israeli PM Naftali BennettF

By Sarah Benhaida and Farid Farid: Israel's Naftali Bennett met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday, on the first visit to the North African country by a prime minister of the Jewish state in over a decade. Sisi was hosting Bennett in the Red Sea resort...
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