Algerian President Seeks to Rally Support for Summit on Libya.

Algiers, 27 February 2020(Lana) Algerian President Abdel Madjeed Tebboune arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, his first foreign visit since his election in December, according to Algerian official media. The Libyan file was expected to be on top of the agenda of the visit, as Algeria is seeking to rally support for its plans to hold a summit meeting on the crisis in Libya. Tebboune has repeatedly signalled that he would focus on internal issues of his country, especially as popular protests continued for a year now, and which had brought down several senior frontline officials, and forced President Bouteflika to resign. But developments and the escalating crisis in the neighbouring Libya have made foreign affairs a priority for President Tebboune. The Algerian President has attended the Berlin Conference on Libya, and the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, but this was his first international visit. =Lana=