Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.