Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi to attend conference on political future

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.