President of Algeria

595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa and the Arab world. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes. Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been President since 1999. Ancient Algeria has known many

the nation, the new independence of Indochina persuaded other French colonies such as Tunisia and Morocco to also revolt against their colonial oppressor and gain independence. However the biggest loss to France was its loss of their colony in Algeria. Algeria had been a French colony for the past 100 years and over a million French settlers, known as pied noirs, were currently living inside the colony (Lowe). In the eyes of France, the colony was not just another overseas territory but a part of mainland

Introduction With 39.21 million inhabitants and a Gross Domestic Product of $210.2 billion in 2013, Algeria is the 8th most populous country and has the 4th largest economy within the African Continent. Classified by the World Bank as an upper middle income country, Algeria’s economy is primarily dominated by state-entities although the country began opening up the economy to both foreign and private domestic participation in the mid-1990s.After posting low growth during the civil wars in the 1990s

of rleligions spanning the close circumfrance of the middle east or because of political power, religious conflict is very prevalent in the middle eats. Algeria is no acceptoiin to this observation. In the early 7th century Northern Africa was conquered by Muslims. The indigenous people of Northern Africa were known as the “Berbers”. Algeria was conquered by the French empire in 1830. The French empire wanted

One of the most important events in recent Algerian history is President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s stroke in April of 2014. Since his stroke, he has made very few public appearances and continues to prove less and less able to effectively govern Algeria. Bouteflika has been president of Algeria since his election in 1999. Following his election he brought the country out of a civil war with radical insurgents stabilizing the country’s economy. The Algerian president’s deteriorating health has become

international news, national news, news which especially interested me, and today’s news. In the New York Times, there was an article published on 20th, of January, called Massacre and Bomb Kill Dozens in Wave of Violence in Algeria. In the month of January, Algiers, Algeria was experiencing weeks of violence. On the 19th, of January, “there was a car bomb explosion outside a café, hours after thirty-six villagers were massacred by Islamic militants (Massacre and Bomb Kill 1).” On that same day,

were able to militarily defeat and temporarily subdue FLN. However, to the surprise of the whole world, French President Charles De Gaulle opted for a political solution and announced independence for the Algerians in 1962. To what extent did the activities of FLN influence De Gaulle and what other factors can be identified which led to his surprising decision to grant independence to Algeria? Introduction 1. The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis

De Gaulle and the Achievement of Independence in Algeria Algeria underwent a long struggle to gain independence from France. Its people had seemed to be happy with the colonisation of its country until France was occupied by Germany in the Second World War. This defeat along with others in Vietnam and other colonies proved to the Algerians that France was not the superpower they had once believed it was, and nationalist feelings began to grow. As the nationalist movement

political power of Algerians in their government, National Assembly in Paris. From the very beginning of the existence of the French Algeria, it was hard to balance the satisfaction of the Pier Noids and the Muslims. The French army, “landing in June 1830,” easily overpowered

The situation worsened with the significant decline in standard of living and increased repression. In 1962, Hassan II put in place the first constitution and initiated superficial reforms in an attempt to democratize the country and boost his popularity. In 1963, legislative and municipal elections were expected, making it a critical year for the building of the country’s political stability. To counter growing opposition, the King created a political party in 1963, the FDIC (Front de Défense des