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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is winning international support for his swift moves to end the North African nation’s civil strife, but big obstacles remain for Western investment beyond the oil and gas sector, experts say. Elected in April amid charges of vote fraud, Bouteflika has...
Algerian prisons began setting free thousands of militants on July 5 under a mass Independence Day pardon issued by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in his drive to end seven years of bloodshed. The prisoner releases were the first tangible fruit of a deal last month between the government and the...
Algeria’s new President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has just announced plans to pardon thousands of pro-Islamist prisoners, looks determined to restore peace in order to tackle major social issues. In under three months, Bouteflika has already obtained the "surrender" of the Islamic Salvation Army (...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seeking broad support for a peace accord with rebels to try to end seven years of violence. He will organize a referendum on the deal in July and has pledged to quit if the bill does not survive the plebiscite, well-placed sources told Algeria’s daily La...
Following seven years of unremitting bloodshed and tens of thousands of lives lost, Algeria’s bloody civil struggle may finally be drawing to a close as the president and the main Islamist opposition group agree to a peace. Whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Islamic Salvation Front’s (...
A dozen Moroccan and Algerian Muslim fundamentalist prisoners called on May 27 on the Socialist-led government of Morocco for an amnesty. Among them are three members of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), spending up to 14 years in jail for their involvement in arms trafficking to...

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