Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe greets supporters massed at his party headquarters shortly before his ouster in 2017.
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Leaders typically spread power among their ‘rival allies’ to keep it and co-opt enough of those elites in exchange for political support.
Le défunt président algérien, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, sur cette photo de 2004, est un dirigeant dont l'héritage restera longtemps dans les mémoires.
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Les deux décennies de règne de Bouteflika ont été les plus dévastatrices que l'Algérie ait connues depuis son indépendance vis-à-vis de la France.
Late Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s, seen in this 2004 photograph, is one leader whose legacy will linger for long.
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Bouteflica’s two decades in power were the most damaging Algeria had experienced since independence from France in 1962.
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita (R) welcomes his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapidis to Rabat, in August 2021.
The normalisation of relations between the two precipitated the breakup of Moroccan-Algerian diplomatic ties.
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In the last decade, Morocco exploited the lethargy of Algeria’s diplomacy and the paralysis of the political system to advance its interests, often to the detriment of Algeria
The role of the military in toppling authoritarian rulers, after intensive popular protests, raises questions about how the AU’s policy against coups should be applied.
Algerians protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria, 29 March 2019.
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When the 2011 Libyan civil war erupted, Twitter became a major instrument to air the rebels’ account of the conflict and present themselves internationally as a viable alternative to Moammar Gadhafi.
Visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and Senior Professor of International Studies and Director of Research in Geopolitics, Kedge Business School