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MISSING: Algeria's ailing president. Not seen in public for over two years
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 9:32
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IT SOUNDS like a missing-person notice: 78-year-old man, wheelchair-bound, not seen in public for over two years. But this is a description of Algeria’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose ill health, including two strokes in recent years, has led to rumours of a palace coup.
Mr Bouteflika can hardly speak and is said to communicate by letter with his ministers, who nevertheless insist that the old man iscompos mentis and in charge. But several close associates of the president aren’t buying it. Having not seen Mr Bouteflika for over a year, they have demanded a meeting with him—so far to no avail. Missing person is right, they say …. http://www.economist.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/02/missing-algerias-ailing-president-not.html
