Abdelaziz bouteflika nobel peace prize
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Abdelaziz bouteflika nobel peace prize
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's longest-serving president dies
Algiers, Algeria
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a dominant figure in Algerian politics for more than six decades.
Most notably, he served as Algeria's longest-serving president from 1999 to 2019.
Born to Algerian parents in Oujda, Morocco on 2 March 1937, Bouteflika became known for his intelligence from a very young age.
In his first year of high school, the Moroccan royal palace even called his parents to congratulate the family on Bouteflika's outstanding academic performance.
When he was 19, Bouteflika joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) - the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN), a nationalist movement fighting for Algerian independence from France.
A witty and sharp-tongued aide, Bouteflika so impressed the chief of staff of Algeria's border army, Houari Boumediene, that he was named chief secretary until Algerian independence in 1962. B