Economy / Algeria
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Algeria
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President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's much applauded decision to openly admit his illness in recent months raises the question of his successor. Indeed, bolstered by oil revenues that have allowed the government to ramp up social spending, signs of rapprochement with the Islamists, as well a war weary population, the country's transition process from years of civil war looks well on track. However, the president has been a key player in the reconciliation process, managing to keep on side both the staunchly secularist military while making important gestures toward the Islamists, which will be a hard act to