ALGIERS: Algeria’s prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but has been ordered to take complete rest by his doctors.
Since he was rushed to hospital in Paris on April 27 with what was officially described as a minor stroke, Bouteflika has been neither heard nor seen in public, raising widespread speculation that he is seriously ill.
France’s Le Point magazine said Bouteflika, who was treated for cancer in 2005, was in very poor health, with some of his vital functions damaged. Algerian newspaper editor Hichem Aboud said he was in a deep coma and had been brought back to Algeria.
“The president, whose survival has never been questioned and whose health is improving every day, has been required by his doctors to take complete rest in order to make a full recovery,” the Algerian Press Service quoted Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal as saying.
PM: Bouteflika convalescing
PM: Bouteflika convalescing
