Fmr. Algerian President Bouteflika, who was ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after 2 decades in power, has died at age 84, state television announces.
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Upon taking office, Bouteflika promised “to definitively turn the somber pages of our history to work for a new era.”Born March 2, 1937, to Algerian parents in the border town of Oujda, Morocco, Bouteflika was among Algeria’s most enduring politicians. In 1978, slipped from sight for nearly two decades, spending more than six years in exile to escape corruption charges that were later dropped.
Bouteflika and the armed forces neutralized Algeria’s insurgency, but then watched it metastasize into a Saharan-wide movement linked to smuggling and kidnapping — and to al-Qaida.
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