Diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi to chair transitional conference on Algeria

Lakhdar Brahimi, above, worked as an Algerian United Nations diplomat. (AFP/File)

• Representatives of protestors and Algerian independnce war veterans will attend the conference

ALGIERS: Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi will chair a conference on the country’s political future proposed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a government source told Reuters on Tuesday.
Bouteflika earlier abandoned plans to stand for a fifth term amid mass protests
The conference will include demonstrators’ representatives as well as participants from Algeria’s 1954-1962 independence war, the source said.