Redha Malek

• Name — Redha Malek • Office — Prime Minister of Algeria • Term Start — 21 August 1993 • Term End — 11 April 1994 • Predecessor — Belaid Abdessalam • Successor — Mokdad Sifi • President — Ali Kafi Liamine Zeroual • President2 — Houari Boumédiène Rabah Bitat • Predecessor1 — Lakhdar Brahimi • President1 — Ali Kafi • Successor1 — Mohamed Salah Dembri • Born — 21 December 1931 • Birthplace — Batna, French Algeria • Died — 29 July 2017 • Place of death — Algiers, Algeria • Term End2 — 1979 • Term Start2 — 1977 • Office2 — Minister of Information and Culture • Office1 — Minister of Foreign Affairs • Term End1 — 21 August 1993 • Term Start1 — 3 February 1993 • Prime Minister1 — Belaid Abdessalam

He was born in Batna on 21 December 1931 and was editor of the FLN newspaper El Moudjahid between 1957 and 1962, during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). After 1963, he was sent as ambassador to Yugoslavia, France, the Soviet Union, the United States (1979–82), and the United Kingdom; he also briefly became Minister of Information and Culture (1977–79) and later Foreign Minister (3 February – 21 August 1993). He later became head of a minor political party, the National Republican Alliance (ANR), founded on 5 May 1995 shortly after a presidential election. He died on 29 July 2017, at the age of 85 after a long illness.

Recorded positions include Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, minister of culture, minister of information, Prime Minister of Algeria and ambassador of Algeria to France. He belonged to High Council of State.