Houari Boumédiène
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Houari Boumédiène was an Algerian military officer, revolutionary, and politician who was the second head of state of independent Algeria from 1965 until his death in 1978. He served as Chairman of th
Boumédiène in 1978
The house where Boumédiène was born in Douar Beni Aadi
Boumédiène during the Algerian War of Independence
Boumediene with Ahmed Ben Bella in 1962.
Ahmed Ben Bella
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Ahmed Ben Bella was an Algerian politician, soldier and revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeri
Houari Boumédiène
…recruiting Algerians to fight in the Indochina War, Boumédiène went to Cairo, where he studied at the Al-Azhar University. It was there he first met Ahmed Ben Bella. He joined the National Liberation Front (FLN) in the Algerian War of Independence in 1955, adopting Houari Boumédiène as his nom-de-guerre (from Sidi…
Ben Bella in 1962
A meeting planning for the transfer of weapons from east base to the Algerians Freedom Fighters. Ben Bella is the second from the left.
Ben Bella (far left) after his arrest by the French army
Ben Bella with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Cuba, 1962