With rare speech, Algeria's ailing Bouteflika starts new term


  • World
  • Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sworn in for a fourth term on Monday after he easily won an election opponents dismissed as rigged to return the ailing leader to power for another five years.

State television showed Bouteflika, 77, sitting in a wheelchair to take his oath and give his first public speech for at least two years. A stroke last year had already raised questions about his ability to govern.

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