French President Jacques Chirac sent a message of congratulations on Friday to his newly re-elected Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika, promising France’s support for future economic and social ...

Meanwhile, Bouteflika is very ill. The President's mysterious sickness has rumour mills working overtime. In fact, the President's sickness has been the salient event of the Algerian political life ...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's scheduled state visit to France has been postponed for 24 hours due to the death of Syrian leader Hafez Assad, the office of French President Jacques Chirac ...

Jacques Chirac received a hero's welcome yesterday when he became the first French president to make a state visit to Algiers since Algeria's war of independence from France ended in 1962. The ...