Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi (; 11 July 1967 – 17 June 2022) was an Algerian politician.

Biography

Sid Ahmed was the son of doctor Hamdane Ferroukhi and the nephew of resistance fighter . He obtained the title of state engineer in agronomy from the

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, of which he became Deputy Director in 1997. In 2005, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Algerian Space Agency. Ferroukhi served as Minister of Fisheries and Fishery Resources from 2012 to 2016 and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2015 to 2016. In

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, he was elected to the

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as a member of the National Liberation Front, where he supported the fifth term of

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelaziz Bouteflika (; ; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019. Before his stint as an Algerian politician, Bouteflika s ...

. He resigned from his mandate on 4 March 2019 amidst the Hirak Movement. From 2020 to 2021, Ferroukhi was interim . Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi died of cardiac arrest in

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on 17 June 2022 at the age of 54.

References

{{reflist 1967 births 2022 deaths 21st-century Algerian politicians Members of the People's National Assembly People from Bologhine National Liberation Front (Algeria) politicians Government ministers of Algeria