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Algeria's ex-president Bendjedid dies |
2012-10-07 |
[Al Ahram] ![]() He was one of Algeria's longest-serving presidents Bendjedid kick-started the democratisation of government institutions in Algeria, notably by promulgating a pluralist constitution in 1989.He was born in April 1929 in Bouteldja in eastern Algeria near the Tunisian border. |
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