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- Liamine Zeroual, Algeria's president during the 1990s civil war, died in Algiers at age 84.
- The current president announced Zeroual's death and declared three days of national mourning.
- Zeroual's presidency coincided with the Black Decade, during which more than 100,000 people died.
- He resigned in 1998 amid unrest and, in 2019, declined offers to lead a transitional government.
