Ahmed Gaid Salah

Ahmed Gaid Salah (; 13 January 1940 – 23 December 2019) was a senior leader in the Algerian People's National Army. In 2004, he was appointed by then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to chief of staff of the army. On 15 September 2013, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. 
Salah died at a military hospital in Algiers of a heart attack on 23 December 2019 at the age of 79.