Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Acting

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1937-03-02

  • Day of Death

    2021-09-17 (84 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Oujda, Protectorat français au Maroc

Biography

Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة, in Berber: Ɛebdelɛaziz Butefliqa), born March 2, 1937 in Oujda (Morocco) and died September 17, 2021 in Zéralda (Algeria), is an Algerian statesman, President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria from April 27, 1999 to April 2, 2019.

He was engaged after the injunction to students to join the National Liberation Army (ALN) in Morocco in May 1956 during the Algerian War. A member of the Oujda clan, he became friends with Houari Boumédiène, under whose leadership he quickly progressed in the administrative apparatus of the "border army".

Acting