Ahmed Francis

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Ahmed Francis أحمد فرنسيس
Politician
Personal details
Born	(1910-11-12)12 November 1910 Geneva, Switzerland
Political party	FLN
Military service
Battles/wars	Algerian War

Ahmed Francis (12 November 1910^[1] – 31 August 1968) was an Algerian politician and nationalist, born in Relizane in a family originally from Miliana.

After studying medicine in Paris, France, where he got his doctorate in 1939, Ahmed returned to Algeria and started working in 1942 in Setif, the city of his friend Ferhat Abbas, whom he followed during the political evolution.

He was the

civil rights and full equality with non-Muslim French, but stopped short of independence from France. In 1946, he was elected member of the Constituent Assembly of France as a UDMA representative.

After independence, he briefly joined the military-backed government of president Ahmed Ben Bella, but resigned along with Abbas in protest of the one-party system set up and the marginalization of Algeria's constitutional assembly. He did not re-enter politics, and died in Geneva in 1968.

He joined the National Liberation Front (FLN) in Cairo in 1956 with Ferhat Abbas, and became an alternate member of the National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA) following the Soummam congress. After several missions abroad, he became Minister of Economy and Finance of the first two Provisional Governments of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) from 1958 to 1961.

Ahmed Francis is one of the negotiators of the Evian accords, signed on March 18, 1962 in Evian-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie, France), between representatives of France and the GPRA during the Algerian war.

He returned to the front of the stage at independence by becoming deputy of Mostaganem of the Constituent Assembly. He became Minister of the Economy of Ahmed Ben Bella from September 27, 1962 to September 4, 1963. He withdrew from the political world and died in Geneva after a long illness in 1968.

Sources

• Achour Cheurfi, La classe politique algérienne de 1900 à nos jours, dictionnaire biographique, 2001, Casbah éditions
  ISBN 978-9961-64-292-4

External links

• (in French) http://www.reflexiondz.net/Ahmed-Francis-une-sommite_a14325.html
• (in French) http://www.liberte-algerie.com/actualite/ahmed-francis-le-pionnier-du-systeme-bancaire-algerien-210522 Archived 2017-08-30 at the Wayback Machine