In Algeria, North Africa, Bouteflika, who had been president for 20 years, has passed away.
I was 84 years old.
When he was a teenager, Mr. Bouteflika devoted himself to the struggle for independence from France, the former suzerain, and after the independence of Algeria in 1962, he was overtaken by the Foreign Minister in his twenties.
He was first elected in the 1999 presidential election and has been in power for 20 years since then, leading to the end of the long-running civil war.
On the other hand, a natural gas facility was attacked in In Amenas in the southeastern part of the country in 2013, killing 40 people, including 10 Japanese, leaving challenges in dealing with Islamic extremists.
He announced his candidacy for the fifth term, but as public dissatisfaction with powerful political methods and the spread of corruption spread, large-scale protests called "the second Arab Spring" were held in various places. I was forced to resign.
Bouteflika has had less chance to appear in public since she suffered a stroke eight years ago, but Algerian state television reported on the 17th that Bouteflika died at the age of 84.