Redha Malek

Redha Malek
رضا مالك
Malek in 1961
Prime Minister of Algeria
In office 21 August 1993 – 11 April 1994
President	Ali Kafi Liamine Zeroual
Preceded by	Belaid Abdessalam
Succeeded by	Mokdad Sifi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 3 February 1993 – 21 August 1993
President	Ali Kafi
Prime Minister	Belaid Abdessalam
Preceded by	Lakhdar Brahimi
Succeeded by	Mohamed Salah Dembri
Minister of Information and Culture
In office 1977–1979
President	Houari Boumédiène Rabah Bitat
Personal details
Born	(1931-12-21)21 December 1931 Batna, French Algeria
Died	29 July 2017(2017-07-29) (aged 85) Algiers, Algeria

Redha Malek (Arabic: رضا مالك) (21 December 1931 – 29 July 2017) was an Algerian politician who served as Prime Minister of Algeria from 21 August 1993 to 11 April 1994. During his short term of office, which came in the early years of the Algerian Civil War, he pursued a hardline anti-Islamist policy and successfully negotiated debt relief with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), following the implementation of an IMF reform plan.

Biography

He was born in Batna on 21 December 1931 and was editor of the FLN newspaper El Moudjahid between 1957 and 1962, during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). After 1963, he was sent as ambassador to Yugoslavia, France, the Soviet Union, the United States (1979–82), and the United Kingdom; he also briefly became Minister of Information and Culture (1977–79) and later Foreign Minister (3 February – 21 August 1993). He later became head of a minor political party, the National Republican Alliance (ANR), founded on 5 May 1995 shortly after a presidential election.

He died on 29 July 2017, at the age of 85 after a long illness.

Books

• L'Algerie a Evian: Histoire des négociations secretes, 1956-1962 (L'epreuve des faits); ISBN 2-02-023898-5