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After almost ten months of massive demonstrations, 24 million Algerian voters were called to the polls to find a successor to deposed former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
A vote massively rejected by a large part of the population that marked its disapproval by abstaining from voting.
Africanews correspondent Tarik Hafid gives a breakdown of events.
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