Sid Ahmed Ghozali

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Sid Ahmed Ghozali
سيد أحمد غزالي
Prime Minister of Algeria
In office 1991–1992
President	Chadli Bendjedid
Preceded by	Mouloud Hamrouche
Succeeded by	Belaid Abdessalam
Minister of Finance
In office 1988–1989
Prime Minister	Kasdi Merbah
Preceded by	Hocine Benissad
Succeeded by	Belaid Abdessalam
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 1989–1991
Prime Minister	Mouloud Hamrouche
Preceded by	Boualem Bessaïh
Succeeded by	Lakhdar Brahimi
Personal details
Born	(1937-03-31)31 March 1937 Maghnia, Algeria
Died	4 February 2025(2025-02-04) (aged 87) Algiers, Algeria

Sid Ahmed Ghozali (Arabic: سيد أحمد غزالي; 31 March 1937 – 4 February 2025) was an Algerian politician who was the Prime Minister of Algeria from 1991 to 1992.

Life and career

Ghozali was a member of the National Liberation Front party and an ally of President Houari Boumedienne, under whom he served as head of Sonatrach from 1966 to 1977, when he became Minister of Energy and Industry. He was removed from this post by the new president Chadli Bendjedid in 1979, becoming ambassador to France, but was brought back in 1988 as Minister of Finance until 1989, then foreign minister until 1991. On 5 June 1991 he succeeded Mouloud Hamrouche as Prime Minister; he remained Prime Minister following the January 1992 resignation of Bendjedid and takeover by the military, but he resigned on 8 July that year, shortly after the assassination of Mohammed Boudiaf. He ran for president in the 1999 elections, and attempted to do so again in 2004, but was disqualified by the Constitutional Council.

Ghozali died in Algiers on 4 February 2025, at the age of 87.

Honours

• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2024)

Sources

• Maroc-Hebdo
• L'Humanité

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN