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Algeria ruling party backs president's removal
The FLN, has backed calls to declare the ailing president unfit to rule
This intervention - which is expected to be decisive - comes a day after the head of the army Lt Gen Ahmed Gaed Salah said a constitutional rule should be invoked to remove the president from office;
Kampala: Three policemen have been arrested for extrajudicial killing of a 'suspected assassin';
(Photo: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Credit: GETTY)
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