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Algeria’s military strongman Salah dies of heart attack

Algeria’s military strongman Salah dies of heart attack

Algerian military chief, Ahmed Gaid Salah, known for telling veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to resign, is dead. He was 79. Gen. Salah, who was one of the last veterans of the 1954-62 independence war against France still in power, died of a heart attack. Bouteflika, who ruled the North African nation since 1999, resigned in […]