OverviewAI-generated
Liamine Zéroual (1941–2026) was an Algerian diplomat, politician, and military general. Born in Batna, he served as President of Algeria and defence minister. A member of the Democratic National Rally, Zéroual participated in the Algerian War as part of the National Liberation Army. He was educated at the Egyptian Military College and held the rank of general.
Zéroual was a Muslim who spoke Arabic and French. He received the National Order of Merit and replaced the High Council of State in his political role. His native name is اليمين زروال.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Prime minister
- Redha Malek , Mokdad Sifi , Ahmed Ouyahia , Smail Hamdani
- Preceded by
- Ali Kafi
- Succeeded by
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Born
- ( 1941-07-03 ) 3 July 1941, Batna , French Algeria
- Died
- 28 March 2026 (2026-03-28) (aged 84), Algiers , Algeria
- Resting place
- Batna Central Cemetery
- Party
- Independent
- Allegiance
- Algeria
- Branch
- National Liberation Army , People's National Army
- Service years
- NLA (1957–1962) , PNP (1962–1989)
- Rank
- Major General
- Commands
- Cherchell Military Academy (1981–1982) Tamanrasset Military Region (1982–1984)
- Conflict
- Algerian War
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Algeria
- Place of birth
- Batna
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- defence minister
- Educated at
- Egyptian Military College
- Political party
- Democratic National Rally
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Conflict
- Algerian War
- Military branch
- National Liberation Army
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Liamine Zéroual.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1941-07-03
- Commons category
- Liamine Zeroual
- name in native language
- اليمين زروال
- replaces
- High Council of State
- P10632
- Liamine Zéroual
- date of death
- 2026-03-28
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Liamine Zéroual (Arabic: اليمين زروال; ALA-LC: al-Yamīn Zarwāl; Berber: Lyamin Ẓerwal; 3 July 1941 – 28 March 2026) was an Algerian politician who served as the sixth president of Algeria from 31 January 1994 to 27 April 1999.
Life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liamine Zéroual” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.