Algerian leader to go to Saudi Arabia in first state visit since election
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- Algeria
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, state media reported his first state visit since being elected in December. Tebboune is making the trip as Algeria seeks to build support for a summit meeting it plans to host on the crisis in neighbouring Libya and the day after he met the emir of Qatar in Algiers.
Tebboune has said he will focus on domestic issues after a year of mass protests that have shaken Algeria's ruling elite and forced the departure of his predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika. However, the crisis in Libya and security troubles in another neighbour, Mali, have pushed foreign affairs further up the agenda.
While his trip to Saudi Arabia will be his first state visit as president, he has travelled to Germany for an international meeting on Libya and to Ethiopia for an African Union summit.
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