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Bouteflika’s plane to take off in few minutes to return to Algeria

Published: 10 Mar 2019 - 05:42 pm | Last Updated: 05 Nov 2021 - 12:54 am
An Algerian government Gulfstream plane, registration 7T-VPM, is pictured at Cointrin airport in Geneva, where Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is in hospital, Switzerland, March 10, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

An Algerian government Gulfstream plane, registration 7T-VPM, is pictured at Cointrin airport in Geneva, where Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is in hospital, Switzerland, March 10, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Reuters

ALGIERS:  Algerian President Abddelaziz Bouteflika's plane will take off in a few minutes from Geneva to take the leader home, Ennahar TV station said on Sunday.

Bouteflika, who faces mass protests in Algeria, had been treated in a Geneva hospital in the past two weeks. (Reporting by Dalia Nehme and Lamine Chikhi; Editing by Kevin Liffey Writing by Ulf Laessing)