Algeria president returns after 2-month COVID-19 treatment
2020-12-30
FILE PHOTO: Newly elected Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune takes the oath during a swearing-in ceremony in Algiers, Algeria December 19, 2019. [Photo/Agencies]
ALGIERS - President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned to Algeria on Tuesday and appeared on television after a two-month absence in Germany, where he received treatment for COVID-19.
"It is hard to be far from one's country," Tebboune said, according to footage broadcast after he arrived from Berlin at around 6:00 pm (1700 GMT).
