Oujda Group
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The Oujda group, also known as the Oujda clan, was a group of military officers and politicians in Algeria that operated during the Algerian War (1954–62). After the independence of Algeria, the Oujda group dominated Algerian politics after the Algerian summer crisis in 1962.[1]
History
The Oujda group was formed around Col. Houari Boumédiène, posted in the Moroccan town of Oujda. He would later become chief of staff in the National Liberation Army (ALN), which was the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN), the main nationalist organization fighting French colonial control over Algeria.[2]
As chief of staff, Boumédiène entered into conflict with the FLN's
After rising tension between the two men and their supporters, Ben Bella in 1965 confronted Boumédiène by attempting to dismiss his close associate, foreign minister
Still, a more generally defined "old guard", including some of the Oujda men, would continue to exercise influence after Boumédiène's death in 1978, over his successor Chadli Bendjedid. Bendjedid consciously strove to marginalise these men, and to replace them with his own loyalists. This policy became informally known as de-Boumédiènisation. The early 1980s therefore marked the end of whatever remained of the Oujda clan as a (somewhat) cohesive faction within Algerian politics, even if FLN "conservatives" favoring Boumédiène-style policies continued to challenge Chadli from within until they were finally purged following the October Riots in 1988.
In 1999, an old Oujda clan stalwart, the former foreign minister
See also
References
- ^ a b Ali Haroun, L'été de la discorde, Algérie, Casbah éditions, Alger, 2000.
- ^ "Le mystère des origines de Bouteflika". Slate Afrique (in French). 17 December 2013. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ^ Chaliand, Gérard (1981). "Mohammed Harbi. Le FLN, mirage et réalité des origines à la prise du pouvoir (1945-1962)". Politique étrangère. 46 (1): 203.
- ^ "Houari Boumediene Facts". biography.yourdictionary.com. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ^ "As Algerians protest, could the sun be setting on the Bouteflika era?". TRTWorld. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.