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Spotlight ALGERIA Issue dated 20/11/2014

As succession looms, tensions rise in presidential clan

The race to succeed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, which has taken on a greater urgency since the Algerian leader’s stay at the Alembert Clinic in Grenoble on November 13-16, has prompted a mood of suspicion verging on paranoia in Algiers.Tensions are [...] (589 words)

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