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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Algeria housed and welcomed freedom fighters and separatists from around the world, including Che Guevara. In this file photo taken on Jis Algeria's then minister of Foreign affairs Abdelaziz Bouteflika. When Boumediene and Ben Bella grasped control of Algeria in the summer that year, Bouteflika was named minister of youth and sport - he was only 25 years old.Ī year later, in 1963, he became the world's youngest minister of foreign affairs, a record that still stands.ĭuring his 16 years as the nation's chief diplomat, Bouteflika embraced 'third-worldism', leading newly independent African nations towards non-alignment in the Cold War.īoumediene and Bouteflika played pivotal roles in earning Algeria its nickname 'the Mecca of revolutionaries'.

Boumediene later became Algeria's second President, after Ahmed Ben Bella. When he was 19, Bouteflika joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) - the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN), a nationalist movement fighting for Algerian independence from France.Ī witty and sharp-tongued aide, Bouteflika so impressed the chief of staff of Algeria's border army, Houari Boumediene, that he was named chief secretary until Algerian independence in 1962. In his first year of high school, the Moroccan royal palace even called his parents to congratulate the family on Bouteflika's outstanding academic performance. Most notably, he served as Algeria's longest-serving president from 1999 to 2019.īorn to Algerian parents in Oujda, Morocco on 2 March, 1937, Bouteflika became known for his intelligence from a very young age. Photo: AFP or licensorsīouteflika was a dominant figure in Algerian politics for more than six decades.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2009.

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