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Algeria buries ex-president Bouteflika in muted funeral

AFP, 21 Sep 2021
Algeria buries Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country's longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors. Bouteflika passed away on Friday aged 84, after a career which took him being from the world's youngest foreign minister to one of its oldest heads of state, but ended with a humbling fall from power.

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