Flag at half mast Saturday in Algiers to mark the death of Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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VSlemured in the medical residence of Zeralda (west of Algiers) since his ouster from power on April 2, 2019, Abdelaziz Bouteflika died at the age of 84. A disappearance announced with the greatest sobriety by the official media. A non-event? Not really because if he had disappeared from the landscape for two and a half years, “Boutef”, as the Algerians called him familiarly, continued to embody, for better or for worse, the history of independent Algeria since 1962. .
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