Redha Malek


Redha Malek was Prime Minister of Algeria from 21 August 1993 to April 1994. During his short term of office, which came in the early years of the Algerian Civil War, he pursued a hardline anti-Islamist policy and successfully negotiated debt relief with the International Monetary Fund, following the implementation of an IMF reform plan.

Biography

He was born in Batna on 21 December 1931 and was editor of the FLN newspaper El Moudjahid between 1957 and 1962, during the Algerian War of Independence. After 1963, he was sent as ambassador to Yugoslavia, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom; he also briefly became Minister of Information and Culture and later Foreign Minister. He later became head of the a minor political party, the National Republican Alliance, founded on 5 May 1995 shortly after a presidential election.
He died on 29 July 2017, at the age of 85 after a long illness.

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