State funeral for Algeria's Bouteflika

By Hamid Ould Ahmed
Updated September 20 2021 - 3:15am, first published 3:09am
A state funeral has been held for controversial former Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
A state funeral has been held for controversial former Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Former Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, ousted in 2019 after mass protests, has been given a state funeral attended by senior officials but received little of the attention given to such occasions in the past.

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