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Ahmed Ben Bella
أحمد بن بلّة
Official portrait, 1963
1st President of Algeria
In office 15 September 1963 – 19 June 1965
Vice President
Rabah Bitat
Houari Boumédiène
Saïd Mohammedi[1]
Succeeded by
Houari Boumédiène as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
Prime Minister of Algeria
In office 27 September 1962 – 15 September 1963
Preceded by
Benyoucef Benkhedda as Head of Government
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani (1979)
Personal details
Born
(1916-12-25)25 December 1916 Maghnia, French Algeria
Died
11 April 2012(2012-04-11) (aged 95) Algiers, Algeria
Spouse
Zohra Michelle Sellami[2]
(m. 1971; died 2008)
[3]
Children
2
Occupation
Politician
footballer
Association football career
Position(s)
center back, midfielder
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1939-1940
Marseille
1
(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلّةAḥmad bin Billah; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, soldier and socialist revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September 1963 to 19 June 1965.
Ben Bella played an important role during the Algerian war of independence against France, leading the FLN, organizing the shipment of foreign weapons and coordinating political strategy from Cairo. Despite not being present in Algeria, French authorities tried to assassinate him multiple times. Once Algeria gained independence in 1962, Ben Bella's Oujda Group seized power from Benyoucef Benkhedda's provisional government after a short crisis, and Ben Bella became prime minister of Algeria with Ferhat Abbas as acting president. Ben Bella succeeded Ferhat Abbas on 15 September 1963 after rapidly sidelining him, and was elected president after winning an election with 99.6 per cent of the votes.
Ben Bella pursued Arab socialist and Pan-Arabist policies and came to describe himself as a Nasserist. He nationalized several industries and established good relations with other anti-Zionist Arab states and left-wing states such as Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt and Fidel Castro's Cuba. He encountered political conflict during his presidency, and was faced with border clashes in the Sand War with Morocco in 1963 and a failed rebellion by the Socialist Forces Front against his regime in 1963–1964. He was ousted from power and put under house arrest after a coup d'état by his Minister of Defense Houari Boumédiéne in 1965. He was freed from house arrest in 1980 and died in 2012.
^Ottaway, Professor Marina; Ottaway, David; Ottaway, Marina (15 December 1970). "Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution". University of California Press – via Google Books.
^Villa avec piscine au Club des Pins II pour Ahmed Ben Bella|DNA - Dernières nouvelles d'Algérie. Dna-algerie.com. Archived 29 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^"AFP: Algeria's first president 'in good health': daughter". 23 February 2012. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
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between 1953 and 1954). and also a soldier. He is married to Fatima Zohra Bella, and has five children: Saloua, Maha, Salaheddine Ilyes, Mohamed and Khaled...
borders, but Algeria's President AhmedBenBella believed the matter should be resolved at a later date. BenBella's fledgling administration was still...
independence, he did not participate in the coup against President AhmedBenBella in 1965 because of his good relations with the president. He was sent...
governments and was cited as an inspiration for foreign leaders like AhmedBenBella and Nelson Mandela, who subsequently awarded him South Africa's highest...
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Warsaw, in Moscow, Bucharest and Quebec. The first Algerian president, AhmedBenBella, said that de Gaulle was the "military leader who brought us the hardest...
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