Algeria has said goodbye to its days under President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s government. This man led Algeria for almost 20 years.
His last days were crazy. Something like a cross between fantasy fiction and ancient myth. See, since the president had a stroke in 2013, he has depended completely on others: he can’t even talk or walk. Despite this, in 2014 he won the elections again and he even tried for an additional term in 2019.
But that was the last straw for the Algerians, who, fed up with what in practice has been a civil dictatorship that has plunged the country into chronic stagnation, took to the streets to demand change. In this video, we’ll tell you what’s happening in Algeria and the story behind Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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In This Story: Algeria
Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa.
Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.
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