Redha Malek ( ar, رضا مالك) (21 December 1931 – 29 July 2017) was an Algerian politician who served as
Prime Minister of Algeria
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from 21 August 1993 to April 1994. During his short term of office, which came in the early years of the
Algerian Civil War
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, he pursued a hardline anti-
Islamist policy and successfully negotiated
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with the
International Monetary Fund
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(IMF), 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
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El Moudjahid
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'' between 1957 and 1962, during the
Algerian War of Independence
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
(1954–62). After 1963, he was sent as ambassador to
Yugoslavia
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,
France
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, the
Soviet Union
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, the
United States
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(1979–82), and the
United Kingdom
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; he also briefly became Minister of Information and Culture (1977–79) and later Foreign Minister (3 February – 21 August 1993). He later became head of the a minor political party, the
National Republican Alliance
The National Republican Alliance ( ar, التحالف الوطني الجمهوري; french: Alliance Nationale Républicaine, ANR) is a minor Algerian political party led by ex-Prime Minister Redha Malek and founded on 5 May 1995. (ANR), 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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References
1931 births
2017 deaths
People from Batna, Algeria
National Liberation Front (Algeria) politicians
National Republican Alliance politicians
Culture ministers of Algeria
Ambassadors of Algeria to France
Ambassadors of Algeria to the Soviet Union
Ambassadors of Algeria to Yugoslavia
Ambassadors of Algeria to the United Kingdom
Ambassadors of Algeria to the United States
Foreign ministers of Algeria
21st-century Algerian people
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