Abdelaziz Bouteflika (French pronunciation: [abdəlaziz butəflika]; Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة) (born March 2, 1937) has been the President of Algeria since 1999. It is worth mentioning that Bouteflika means in Arabic "one with an ass cheek".
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was born on March 2, 1937 in Oujda, Morocco. He was the first child of his mother and the second child of his father (Fatima, his half-sister, preceded him). Bouteflika has three half-s...
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika (French pronunciation: [abdəlaziz butəflika]; Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة) (born March 2, 1937) has been the President of Algeria since 1999. It is worth mentioning that Bouteflika means in Arabic "one with an ass cheek".
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was born on March 2, 1937 in Oujda, Morocco. He was the first child of his mother and the second child of his father (Fatima, his half-sister, preceded him). Bouteflika has three half-sisters (Fatima, Yamina, and Aïcha), as well as four brothers (Abdelghani, Mustapha, Abderahim and Saïd) and one sister (Latifa). Saïd serves as Abdelaziz Bouteflika's personal physician, and is said by some to be an important figure in Bouteflika's inner circle of advisers.
Bouteflika lived and studied in Algeria until he joined the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in 1956, at the age of 19. He started as a controller, making reports on the conditions at the Moroccan border and in west Algeria, but later became the administrative secretary...
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