Algeria’s President Bouteflika names caretaker government
By DW
01 April 2019 |
8:40 am
President Bouteflika kept his army chief — who earlier this week had called the president medically unfit for office — as a deputy minister. The ailing leader has faced weeks of street protests against his 20-year rule.
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