Bouteflika, Abdelaziz, 1937-2021

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Name (Hebrew)
בותפליקה, עבד אל-עזיז, 1937-2021
Name (Latin)
Bouteflika, Abdelaziz, 1937-2021
Name (Arabic)
بوتفليقة، عبد العزيز، 1937-2021
Other forms of name
Bouteflika, Abdelaziz, 1937-
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 1937-2021
Būtaflīqah, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1937-2021
Bū Taflīqah, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1937-2021
Abū Taflīqah, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1937-2021
بو تفليقة، عبد العزيز، 1937-2021
ابو تفليقة، عبد العزيز، 1937-2021
Date of birth
1937-03-02
Date of death
2021-09-17
Occupation
Diplomats
Politicians
Presidents
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 165556311
Wikidata: Q57308
Library of congress: no2001100860
Sources of Information
  • India-Africa relations, 2001:p. facing t.p. (Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president of the People's Republic of Algeria and former chairman of the OAU) p. 11 (7th president, but in real sense the 5th elected president; b. March 2, 1937)
  • ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Būtaflīqah wa-asrār Amrīkīyah, 2000.
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Wikipedia description:

Abdelaziz Bouteflika (; Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة, romanized: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Būtaflīqa [ʕabd elʕaziːz buːtefliːqa]; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019. Before his stint as an Algerian politician, Bouteflika served during the Algerian War as a member of the National Liberation Front. After Algeria gained its independence from France, he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1963 until 1979. He served as President of the United Nations General Assembly during the 1974–1975 session. In 1983 he was convicted of stealing millions of dinars from Algerian embassies during his diplomatic career. In 1999, Bouteflika was elected president of Algeria in a landslide victory. He would win re-elections in 2004, 2009, and 2014. As President, he presided over the end of the Algerian Civil War in 2002 when he took over the project of his immediate predecessor President Liamine Zéroual, and he ended emergency rule in February 2011 amidst regional unrest. Following a stroke in 2013, Bouteflika had made few public appearances throughout his fourth term, making his final appearance in 2017. Bouteflika resigned on 2 April 2019 amid months of mass protests opposing his candidacy for a fifth term. With nearly 20 years in power, he is the longest-serving head of state of Algeria to date. Following his resignation, Bouteflika became a recluse and died at the age of 84 in 2021, over two years after his resignation.

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