Ahmed Francis

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Ahmed Francis أحمد فرنسيس
Politician
Personal details
Born	(1910-11-12)12 November 1910 Relizane, Algeria
Died	31 August 1968(1968-08-31) (aged 57) Geneva, Switzerland
Political party	FLN
Military service
Battles/wars	Algerian War

Ahmed Francis (12 November 1910^[1] – 31 August 1968) was an Algerian politician and nationalist, born in Relizane in a family originally from Miliana.

After studying medicine in Paris, France, where he got his doctorate in 1939, Ahmed returned to Algeria and started working in 1942 in Setif, the city of his friend Ferhat Abbas, whom he followed during the political evolution.

He was the Minister of Economy and Finance of the first Algerian government from 1958 to 1963,^[2] making him the only openly non-Muslim Algerian minister.