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ALGERIA: Partial Reshuffle

ALGERIA: Partial Reshuffle June 1st–30th 2016 Africa Research Bulletin – 21027 tension in 2015 when they expelled each linked to political offences and he may be As a leader of the Armed Forces Revolution- other’s diplomats. Bilateral relations returned tried in a military court. (© AFP 7/6 2016) ary Council (AFRC), Brima helped to depose to normal at the end of May when Maurita- president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997, Rwanda – Morocco: Rwandan President Paul nia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Isselko Ould before setting up one of the most vicious Kagame arrived in Morocco on June 19th to Ahmed Izid Bih visited Algeria. (Echourouk El juntas Africa has ever known. start a two-day official visit, as Kigali seeks Youmi website 17/6) closer ties and stronger relations with the A supporter of former Liberian president Northern African nation. A number of coop- Charles Taylor, Brima was tried with two Burkina Faso – C^ote d’Ivoire: Ouagadougou eration agreements were expected to be signed, others on war crimes charges ranging from cancelled an international arrest warrant for covering economy and trade, aviation, science murder, mutilations of civilians, rape and Cote ^ d’Ivoire’s former Prime Minister Guil- and technology, and health. Rwanda would enlisting child soldiers. laume Soro on June 5th, the latest twist in a also officially open its embassy in Morocco to saga which has tainted diplomatic relations By the time the country’s decade-long civil boost relations. (PANA, Kigali 20/6) between the countries for months. war ended in 2001, some 120,000 people had Sierra Leone – Rwanda: A war criminal from died and thousands of others had been Soro, currently parliament speaker, was Sierra Leone convicted of “the most heinous, mutilated, with their arms, legs, ears or noses wanted over his alleged role in a short-lived brutal and atrocious crimes in human his- chopped off. coup in Burkina in 2015. But military pros- tory” has died in Rwanda while serving a 50- ecutor Commander Alioune Zanre announced He was sent to Rwanda with seven others year sentence, the court that convicted him that Burkina would be handing over respon- under a special arrangement in 2008 as it was said on June 8th. sibility for the matter to Cote d’Ivoire. deemed Sierra Leone did not have proper Alex Tamba Brima, 44, died at King Faisal facilities for their detention. (© AFP 9/6 Zanre said Interpol had refused to assist with hospital in Kigali following a “serious illness”. 2016) the extradition of Soro because the crime was Ministers Agriculture, Rural Development and Fish- eries: Abdelsalam Chelghoum Internal Developments Commerce: Bakhti Belaib Communication: Hamid Grine Culture: Azedine Mihoubi The statement added that the Algerian Energy: Bouterfa Noureddine president also appointed Boualem Bous- Finance: Hadji Baba Ammi GOVERNMENT Foreign Affairs and International Coopera- saieh, Minister of State, as Special tion: Ramtane Lamamra APPOINTMENTS Adviser to the President. Health, Population and Hospital Reform: The reshuffle is Bouteflika’s third Abdelmalek Boudiaf ALGERIA Higher Education and Scientific Research: since his re-election to a fourth five-year Tahar Hadjar term in 2014. It comes weeks after Partial Reshuffle Housing, Urban Planning, and the City: the 79-year-old leader returned from Abdelmadjid Tebboune Switzerland after undergoing what The Finance and Energy Ministers are Industry and Mining: Abdessalem Bou- the presidency called “routine medical removed. chouareb checks”. (PANA, Algiers; © AFP 11/6) Interior and Local Authorities: Nouredine President Abdelaziz Bouteflika reshuffled Bedoui In a commentary on the reshuffle, El- his cabinet on June 11th by changing six Justice and Keeper of the Seals: Tayeb Louh Khabar claimed many Algerians portfolios, including Finance and Labour, Employment and Social Security: and observers of Algerian affairs felt Energy, a statement from the president’s Mohamed El-Ghazi the move had not met expectations. Maghreb Affairs, African Union and Arab office said. Those who lost their posts included League: Abdelkader Messahel Noureddine Bouterfa, former CEO of the National Education: Nouria Benghebrit f) government members who had state run gas and electricity group Sonel- National Planning, Tourism and Small angered the ruling authority, while min- gaz, is now the Minister of Energy, while Trades: Abdelwahab Nouri isters whose sectors had been implicated National Solidarity, Family and Women’s the Minister of Finance, Abderahmane in scandals had escaped the guillotine. Affairs: Mounia Meslem (f) Benkhalfa, has left office and been Post, Information Technology and Commu- The most significant of these are the replaced by former Deputy Minister for nication: Iman Houda Feraoun (f) Minister of National Education, Nouria Budget and Forecasting Baba Ammi Public Works and Transport: Boudjema Benghebrit for her failure to ensure the Hadji. Talai correct administration of the state Bac- Relations with Parliament: Eddala Ghania Transport and Public Works have been calaureate examinations – the exam Religious Affairs and Endowments: merged under Boudjemaa Talai, who was papers were leaked and resulted in Mohamed Aissa formerly Transport Minister. more than 300,000 students needing to Minister of State: Tayeb Belaiz resit the tests; Minister of Industry and Vocational Training and Education: Nouri Abdelwahab is now the Minister of Mohamed Mebarki Mining, Abdessalem Bouchouareb had Urban Development, Tourism and War Veterans (Moudjahidine): Tayeb been mentioned in the scandalous Small Trades. Zitouni Panama Papers as the owner of a Water Resources and Environment: Chelghoum Abdeslam replaced Sid Ali fictitious offshore company implicated Abdelkader Ouali Feroukhi as Minister of Agriculture, in tax evasion to the tune of €700,000 Youth and Sports: El Hadi Ould Ali Rural Development and Fisheries, while according to documents leaked by the Minister of State, Director of the Office of Abdelkader Ouali was appointed Minis- International Consortium of Investiga- the Presidency of the Republic: Ahmed ter of Water Resources. tive Journalists. (El-Khabar website, Ouyahia Algiers 12/6) Adviser to the President of the Republic, in Mrs. Eddalia Ghania is now Minister in- charge of energy: Youcef Yousfi charge of relations with Parliament, and The government is now as follows: Director of the Prime Minister’s Office: Bouadiaf Mouatassem is the Minister of Mustapha Karim Rahiel President, Defence Minister: Abdelaziz State reporting to the Minister of Finance Secretary-General of the Government: Bouteflika for Digital Economy and the Modernisa- Ahmed Noui Prime Minister: Abdelmalek Sellal tion of Financial Systems, a new post. (www.premier-ministre.gov.dz/ 12/6) AB C © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin Political Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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June 1st–30th 2016 Africa Research Bulletin – 21027 tension in 2015 when they expelled each linked to political offences and he may be As a leader of the Armed Forces Revolution- other’s diplomats. Bilateral relations returned tried in a military court. (© AFP 7/6 2016) ary Council (AFRC), Brima helped to depose to normal at the end of May when Maurita- president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997, Rwanda – Morocco: Rwandan President Paul nia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Isselko Ould before setting up one of the most vicious Kagame arrived in Morocco on June 19th to Ahmed Izid Bih visited Algeria. (Echourouk El juntas Africa has ever known. start a two-day official visit, as Kigali seeks Youmi website 17/6) closer ties and stronger relations with the A supporter of former Liberian president Northern African nation. A number of coop- Charles Taylor, Brima was tried with two Burkina Faso – C^ote d’Ivoire: Ouagadougou eration agreements were expected to be signed, others on war crimes charges ranging from cancelled an international arrest warrant for covering economy and trade, aviation, science murder, mutilations of civilians, rape and Cote ^ d’Ivoire’s former Prime Minister Guil- and technology, and health. Rwanda would enlisting child soldiers. laume Soro on June 5th, the latest twist in a also officially open its embassy in Morocco to saga which has tainted diplomatic relations By the time the country’s decade-long civil boost relations. (PANA, Kigali 20/6) between the countries for months. war ended in 2001, some 120,000 people had Sierra Leone – Rwanda: A war criminal from died and thousands of others had been Soro, currently parliament speaker, was Sierra Leone convicted of “the most heinous, mutilated, with their arms, legs, ears or noses wanted over his alleged role in a short-lived brutal and atrocious crimes in human his- chopped off. coup in Burkina in 2015. But military pros- tory” has died in Rwanda while serving a 50- ecutor Commander Alioune Zanre announced He was sent to Rwanda with seven others year sentence, the court that convicted him that Burkina would be handing over respon- under a special arrangement in 2008 as it was said on June 8th. sibility for the matter to Cote d’Ivoire. deemed Sierra Leone did not have proper Alex Tamba Brima, 44, died at King Faisal facilities for their detention. (© AFP 9/6 Zanre said Interpol had refused to assist with hospital in Kigali following a “serious illness”. 2016) the extradition of Soro because the crime was Ministers Agriculture, Rural Development and Fish- eries: Abdelsalam Chelghoum Internal Developments Commerce: Bakhti Belaib Communication: Hamid Grine Culture: Azedine Mihoubi The statement added that the Algerian Energy: Bouterfa Noureddine president also appointed Boualem Bous- Finance: Hadji Baba Ammi GOVERNMENT Foreign Affairs and International Coopera- saieh, Minister of State, as Special tion: Ramtane Lamamra APPOINTMENTS Adviser to the President. Health, Population and Hospital Reform: The reshuffle is Bouteflika’s third Abdelmalek Boudiaf ALGERIA Higher Education and Scientific Research: since his re-election to a fourth five-year Tahar Hadjar term in 2014. It comes weeks after Partial Reshuffle Housing, Urban Planning, and the City: the 79-year-old leader returned from Abdelmadjid Tebboune Switzerland after undergoing what The Finance and Energy Ministers are Industry and Mining: Abdessalem Bou- the presidency called “routine medical removed. chouareb checks”. (PANA, Algiers; © AFP 11/6) Interior and Local Authorities: Nouredine President Abdelaziz Bouteflika reshuffled Bedoui In a commentary on the reshuffle, El- his cabinet on June 11th by changing six Justice and Keeper of the Seals: Tayeb Louh Khabar claimed many Algerians portfolios, including Finance and Labour, Employment and Social Security: and observers of Algerian affairs felt Energy, a statement from the president’s Mohamed El-Ghazi the move had not met expectations. Maghreb Affairs, African Union and Arab office said. Those who lost their posts included League: Abdelkader Messahel Noureddine Bouterfa, former CEO of the National Education: Nouria Benghebrit f) government members who had state run gas and electricity group Sonel- National Planning, Tourism and Small angered the ruling authority, while min- gaz, is now the Minister of Energy, while Trades: Abdelwahab Nouri isters whose sectors had been implicated National Solidarity, Family and Women’s the Minister of Finance, Abderahmane in scandals had escaped the guillotine. Affairs: Mounia Meslem (f) Benkhalfa, has left office and been Post, Information Technology and Commu- The most significant of these are the replaced by former Deputy Minister for nication: Iman Houda Feraoun (f) Minister of National Education, Nouria Budget and Forecasting Baba Ammi Public Works and Transport: Boudjema Benghebrit for her failure to ensure the Hadji. Talai correct administration of the state Bac- Relations with Parliament: Eddala Ghania Transport and Public Works have been calaureate examinations – the exam Religious Affairs and Endowments: merged under Boudjemaa Talai, who was papers were leaked and resulted in Mohamed Aissa formerly Transport Minister. more than 300,000 students needing to Minister of State: Tayeb Belaiz resit the tests; Minister of Industry and Vocational Training and Education: Nouri Abdelwahab is now the Minister of Mohamed Mebarki Mining, Abdessalem Bouchouareb had Urban Development, Tourism and War Veterans (Moudjahidine): Tayeb been mentioned in the scandalous Small Trades. Zitouni Panama Papers as the owner of a Water Resources and Environment: Chelghoum Abdeslam replaced Sid Ali fictitious offshore company implicated Abdelkader Ouali Feroukhi as Minister of Agriculture, in tax evasion to the tune of €700,000 Youth and Sports: El Hadi Ould Ali Rural Development and Fisheries, while according to documents leaked by the Minister of State, Director of the Office of Abdelkader Ouali was appointed Minis- International Consortium of Investiga- the Presidency of the Republic: Ahmed ter of Water Resources. tive Journalists. (El-Khabar website, Ouyahia Algiers 12/6) Adviser to the President of the Republic, in Mrs. Eddalia Ghania is now Minister in- charge of energy: Youcef Yousfi charge of relations with Parliament, and The government is now as follows: Director of the Prime Minister’s Office: Bouadiaf Mouatassem is the Minister of Mustapha Karim Rahiel President, Defence Minister: Abdelaziz State reporting to the Minister of Finance Secretary-General of the Government: Bouteflika for Digital Economy and the Modernisa- Ahmed Noui Prime Minister: Abdelmalek Sellal tion of Financial Systems, a new post. (www.premier-ministre.gov.dz/ 12/6) AB C © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Published: Jul 1, 2016

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