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v. t. e. Houari Boumédiène[ a ] (Arabic: هواري بومدين, romanized:Hawwārī Būmadyan; born Mohammed ben Brahim Boukherouba; [ b ] 23 August 1932 – 27 December 1978) was an Algerian military officer and politician who was the second head of state of independent Algeria from 1965 until his death in 1978. He served as Chairman of ...
change in direction, whilst the students and trade unions agitated for the return of Ben Bella. On the first anniversary of the coup Boumédienne reiterated the need for the reorganization of the party, the building of the State, and the putting in order of the economy. With this set of priorities most Algerians would agree.
The text is an excerpt from the 1974 Houari Boumédiène’s speech to the 6th Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. In the speech, the Algerian leader noted that one of the main global problems is uneven development across all countries rich and poor. Boumédiène thus proposed a new global economic order that would ...
- Introduction
- Houari Boumédiène’S Presidency
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s Presidency
- Conclusion
Algeria is a country that has lived through more than a century of colonization and more than half a century of dictatorship and a single-party system. In this turbulent history, two dictatorial rulers stand out for being eccentrically autocratic but all the same contributing to nation-building in two entirely different ways and navigating the nati...
Algeria gained independence from France in 1962, after 132 years of colonial rule and 8 years of war. However, there was no respite for this country as the national leadership, The National Liberation Front (FLN), was haunted by inner conflicts. After independence, it was through a coup d’état that Boumedianne became the President of Algeria. He ru...
By then, oil prices began to fall and dipped drastically in 1986. The nationalization of hydrocarbons showed its flipside, as oil was too volatile a product to root the nation’s economy on it. According to figures in 1990, 25 % of Algerians were poor and 22% did not have clean drinking water. The economic downfall was accelerated by Boumedianne’s d...
Throughout the regimes of Boumedienne and Bouteflika, school textbooks, the government-controlled media, Friday sermons in mosques, public iconography, and all the public discourses, in general, propagated a certain historical narrative convenient to the rulers and hid the real history of these dictatorships behind it. However, compared to Boumedia...
Ask the Chatbot a Question. Houari Boumedienne (born Aug. 23, 1927, Clauzel, near Guelma, Alg.—died Dec. 27, 1978, Algiers) was an army officer who became president of Algeria in July 1965 following a coup d’etat. Boukharouba’s service to Algeria began in the 1950s, during his country’s struggle for independence from France, when, after ...
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Houari Boumediene (1932-1978) was an Algerian revolutionary and military leader who won power by a military coup and led Algeria during a turbulent period after nearly 8 years of war. Houari Boumediene was born on Aug. 23, 1932, into a poor peasant family in Clauzel near Guelma in eastern Algeria. His real name was Mohammed Ben Brahim Bou ...
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Dec 28, 1978 · President Houari Boumediene of Algeria, who died yesterday at Mustafa Hospital in Algiers, was a puritanical soldier who sought prosperity and renewal for his people through socialism and Islam ...
