Algeria

Divisions within the government begun to be exposed after arguments over who should be appointed as Algeria's next president, as 75-year old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will end his third and most probably last term in 2014. The most evident sign of the discord is that the president has not appointed a prime minister yet, over a month after he was expected to announce the decision. A considerable amount of confrontation could take place within the elite over the coming two years, as different factions will compete to choose a successor to the current

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