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Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلّة Aḥmad bin Billah; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, soldier and socialist revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September 1963 to 19 June 1965.
Ahmed Ben Bella, principal leader of the Algerian War of Independence against France, the first prime minister (1962–63) and first elected president (1963–65) of the Algerian republic, who steered his country toward a socialist economy. Learn more about Ben Bella’s life and career.
Apr 12, 2012 · Ahmed Ben Bella, a farmer’s son who fought for France in World War II, turned against it in the brutal struggle for Algerian independence and rose to become Algeria’s first elected president, has...
Ahmed Ben Bella, (born Dec. 25, 1918?, Maghnia, Alg.—died April 11, 2012, Algiers), First elected president of Algeria. After a French education, he entered the French army and was decorated during World War II (1939–45). After the war he took up arms to fight French rule.
Mar 8, 2020 · Born in the Tlemcen Province of northwestern Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella fought courageously to gain independence for Algeria from France. By so doing, he became Algeria’s first prime minister and later the country’s first elected president.
Ahmed Ben Bella is remembered as one of the greatest figures in Arab nationalism. As a young boy in school, he was deeply affected by the racial discrimination perpetuated over the indigenous people by the French authorities.
Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president and a historic leader of its bloody independence struggle from France, died at his family home in Algiers on Wednesday. He was 95.
May 12, 2022 · Ahmed Ben Bella was a leader of the Algerian War of Independence who became the first Prime Minister, and later, the first President of independent Algeria. Ben Bella was born in 1916 in Maghnia (Marnia), Oran, Algeria (then a French colony), the son of a farmer and small business owner.
May 15, 2012 · News of the April 11 death of Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president, marked the end of an era and the loss of a great revolutionary and elder statesman.
Apr 11, 2012 · The first president of independent Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, has died at his home in Algiers following an illness, official media say. Mr Ben Bella, who was 95, had recently been treated in...
