Algeria’s Tebboune Ends COVID-19 Treatment, to Undergo Checks

FILE PHOTO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina
FILE PHOTO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina
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Algeria’s Tebboune Ends COVID-19 Treatment, to Undergo Checks

FILE PHOTO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina
FILE PHOTO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has finished treatment for COVID-19 but will undergo follow-up checks, the country's presidency said on Sunday.

Tebboune, 75, was flown to a German hospital 19 days ago after he tested positive for the coronavirus.

Tebboune was elected last December after more than a year of mass protests that toppled his predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Algerians earlier this month approved changes to the constitution to allow more powers for the parliament and prime minister, and pave the way for the army to take part in peacekeeping missions overseas.

Tebboune has also announced plans to develop the non-energy sector to diversify the economy away from oil and gas and create sorely-needed jobs in the nation of 44 million people.



Report: Hezbollah Leader Buried 'Temporarily' in Secret Place

A man points to a television set displaying an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a black stripe for mourning during a broadcast from the private Lebanese station NBN in Beirut on September 28, 2024. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)
A man points to a television set displaying an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a black stripe for mourning during a broadcast from the private Lebanese station NBN in Beirut on September 28, 2024. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)
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Report: Hezbollah Leader Buried 'Temporarily' in Secret Place

A man points to a television set displaying an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a black stripe for mourning during a broadcast from the private Lebanese station NBN in Beirut on September 28, 2024. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)
A man points to a television set displaying an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a black stripe for mourning during a broadcast from the private Lebanese station NBN in Beirut on September 28, 2024. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has been “temporarily buried in a secret location fearing Israel would target a large funeral”, AFP quoted a source close to Hezbollah on Friday.
"Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried, until the circumstances allow for a public funeral," the source said on condition of anonymity.
Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut last week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the killing of Nasrallah was a “historic turning point”.
On 23 September 2024, Israel began a series of airstrikes in Lebanon as part of the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict. Since then, Israel's attacks have killed over 800 people, injured more than 5,000, and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
The attacks are the deadliest in Lebanon since the end of the Lebanese Civil War.