BREAKING: Algeria's longtime President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns

Date created : 03/04/2019 - 11:40GMT/ZULU

Canal, AFP | A video grab from footage broadcast by Canal Algerie on July 5, 2016, shows wheelchair-bound President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

by Rashida Adjani and Biodun Iginla, France24, Algiers

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika submitted his resignation late Tuesday, shortly after the country's army chief of staff demanded that he leave office "immediately". Watch our special broadcast on a historic night in Algeria.

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• Next in line? Bouteflika loyalist Abdelkader Bensalah

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