Algeria’s newly elected president reached beyond the political class to name educator and diplomat Abdelaziz Djerad as prime minister. Djerad said his top challenge is “recovering confidence in our society,President Abdelmadjid Tebboune charged him with forming a new government, a delicate task in this North African nation divided since the emergence early this year of a pro-democracy movement that boycotted his Dec. 12 election after forcing out predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Djerad, 65, stressed the need to work together to meet social-economic challenges and pull ourselves out of this delicate period.
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