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Spotlight ALGERIA Issue dated 26/02/2015

Bouteflika's reasons for about-face on reshuffle

Initially announced last September, a government reshuffle that Abdelaziz Bouteflika wished to bring about has finally been torpedoed by the Algerian president himself. He feared that industry and mines minister Abdessalem Bouchouareb would gain too much clout in any new [...] (618 words)

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