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From anti-Bouteflika to no democracy: Here is a timeline of the events that have occurred in Algeria

The planned vote has drawn widespread protests, with Algerian demonstrators demanding Bouteflika allies step aside before any elections are held

Ouyahia served four times as prime minister from 1995, three of them during Bouteflika’s two-decade rule

While celebrating people power in Algeria and Sudan, remember that revolutions are arduous and unpredictable

The 82-year-old finally resigned from office and Algerian citizens took to the streets to celebrate

Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign as president before his mandate expires on April 28.

Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika have been fanned by football followers, whose stadium chants have been heard across the country

"Peacefully, we have overthrown the puppet!" people sang in Algiers following the president’s decision

Bouteflika has been in power since 1999 and his rare public appearances since his stroke have been in a wheelchair.

Around a thousand lawyers breached police cordons to march on the Constitutional Council in a bid to stop the re-election of the current president.

An Islamist opposition party leader says Algeria’s government will ignite unrest if it tries to rig elections in May to keep its grip on power.

For nearly two weeks Algerian schoolteacher Hamou Benhamou has spent his days protesting outside the presidential administration.

Algerian opposition leaders, emboldened by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, on Sunday announced a second protest march in the capital.