Sputnik International
By Morgan Artyukhina – September 17, 2021
According to local media reports, former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who led his country out of the civil war of the 1990s, died on Friday at the age of 84. He was one of the last surviving veterans of Algeria’s war of independence against France from 1954 to 1962.
The elderly Bouteflika was forced from office in 2019 by a mass protest movement called the Hirak, which demanded a change in top faces after he sought a fifth term despite his failing health.