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The Algerian national press agency APS announced that the badaulting president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had resigned, informing the country's constitutional council of his decision to withdraw.
The news came shortly after the Algerian Defense Ministry aggressively called Tuesday Bouteflika to resign "immediately".
The ministry, which controls the army, said "there is no more time to lose" after six weeks of nationwide demonstrations against the head of state and his entourage.
Bouteflika, 82, has been in office for 20 years. He suffered a stroke in 2013 and has rarely been seen in public since.
On Monday, he announced that he would resign by the end of his fourth term on April 28, capitulating to the growing appeals to his resignation.
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