Abdelaziz Bouteflika facts for kids
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika
عبد العزيز بوتفليقة |
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| President of Algeria | |
| In office 27 April 1999 – 2 April 2019 |
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| Prime Minister | Smail Hamdani Ahmed Benbitour Ali Benflis Ahmed Ouyahia Abdelaziz Belkhadem Ahmed Ouyahia Abdelmadjid Tebboune Noureddine Bedoui |
| Preceded by | Liamine Zéroual |
| Succeeded by | Abdelmadjid Tebboune |
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| Born | 2 March 1937 Oujda, French Morocco |
| Died | 17 September 2021 (aged 84) Zéralda, Algeria |
| Political party | National Liberation Front |
| Spouse(s) | Amal Triki |
| Profession | Civil servant |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician. From 1999 to 2019, he was the ninth President of Algeria. He was President at the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002. He ended emergency rule in February 2011 during Arab Spring.
He was President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1974 until 1975.
Bouteflika resigned on 2 April 2019 after months of massive protests.
Bouteflika died on 17 September 2021 at his home in Zéralda, Algeria from cardiac arrest at the age of 84. He was in bad health since he had a stroke in 2013.
Images for kids
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Bouteflika in the 1970s with Saddam Hussein and Hafez al-Assad
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the G8 family photo, 2010
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika meets Dmitry Medvedev in the United States, 25 September 2009
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Bouteflika with then President of Russia Vladimir Putin at Houari Boumedienne Airport in Algiers on 10 March 2006.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika and George W. Bush exchange handshakes (Tōyako Town, on 7 July 2008). With them are President Dmitriy Medvedev, left, and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, right.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika meets the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, on a state visit to Brasília, in 2005.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika meets the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
