Algeria Loses Its Grip: A Mentally Unfit President, a Mafia-Like Military Regime and an Economy in Collapse

The crumbling facade of Algeria’s military regime continues to fall apart. In a video published on November 27 on his YouTube channel, Algerian journalist and opposition figure Mohamed Sifaoui lifts part of the veil covering the inner workings of power in Algiers, and what he reveals is simply frightening.

After meeting in Paris with Boualem Sansal, recently released from the grip of the regime, Sifaoui paints an uncompromising portrait of the real state of Algeria. A country held hostage by a mafia-style military clique, sick, senile and trapped in paranoia from another era. But above all, a government led by a head of state who is severely neurologically impaired and unable to assume any official responsibility.

Tebboune may be suffering from Korsakoff syndrome

According to Sifaoui’s revelations, Abdelmadjid Tebboune may be suffering from Korsakoff syndrome, a severe neurological disorder that causes chronic memory loss, disorientation, mental confusion, difficulty reasoning and the inability to manage responsibilities.

In other words: a president who no longer controls anything, trapped in a permanent mental fog, manipulated like a puppet by the ageing generals of the so-called “old guard junta”.

This observation, already visible through Tebboune’s chaotic and incoherent public appearances, now takes on an alarming dimension. The most populous country in the Maghreb (based on regime-inflated statistics) is led by a man who is no longer master of his mental faculties.

Power controlled from behind the scenes: the generals pull the strings

In this Algeria imprisoned by its own history, it is the sick, resentful, corrupt and paranoid generals who are truly in charge. The president is nothing more than an empty display, a puppet with no memory, used as a civilian façade to disguise a collapsing military dictatorship.

These revelations help explain Tebboune’s incoherent speeches, the regime’s absurd decisions, its diplomatic escalation, its increasing repression and the growing institutional chaos that Algeria has sunk into over the past years. The regime, like a rotting house of cards, survives through fear, manipulation and propaganda, yet collapses from within.

A sick regime that makes an entire country sick

The diagnosis presented by Sifaoui does not only concern Tebboune. The entire state apparatus is affected by political senility, systemic corruption, an obsessive fixation on Morocco, the inability to modernize the country, economic and social failure and permanent deception. A regime maintained through force, manipulation and disinformation while the Algerian people suffer in silence.

Tebboune’s Korsakoff syndrome becomes the perfect metaphor for a government that has lost memory, logic and legitimacy.

Translated from Abderrazzak Boussaid’s French article – le7tv