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By granting amnesties to the main armed groups, the new president succeeded in bring the war to an end though the insurgents were to regroup in the following years, aligning themselves to al-qaeda and spreading their operations into the wider region. over time, the president bouteflika's rapprochement with the west and openness to economic reform did little in the way of freeing the state from its dependency on oil revenues, reducing public debt and defeating growing unemployment. he ruled algeria for 20 years — through landslide election victories tainted by a leadership that prevented the ...
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