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Oil & gas 03/03/2021

Complex web of relations behind energy ministry shake-up

Mohamed Arkab, back as Algeria's energy minister. ©Christian Bruna/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Business Defence 03/03/2021

Intermarine to mine-proof navy with two more MCMVs

Italy's Intermarine will delivery two mine countermeasure vessels (MCMV) to the Algerian navy this year to add to the two ships already received by Algiers. But the sacking of navy commander Mohamed Larbi Haouli could rock the boat of its security cooperation with Rome. [...]

Business Power 23/02/2021

Sonelgaz boss Boulakhras struggles to repower grid command centre

Sonelgaz CEO Chahar Boulakhras. ©Sonelgaz

Oil & gas 22/02/2021

Equinor under legal and parliamentary scrutiny

Over the last year, Equinor has been contending with several legal actions relating to its operations in Africa as well as a parliamentary inquiry in its native Norway. [...]

Business 17/02/2021

FEMA follows in the footsteps of Turkish construction giants

Turkish construction firm FEMA has set up a subsidiary in Algeria, headed by the group's CEO, Muzaffer Şakar, and Huseyin Karadeniz. [...]

Business 10/02/2021

AfricInvest, DPI and Tell Group keen for a bite of Sobco-Palmary biscuits

Chocolate and biscuit manufacturer Sobco-Palmary, owned by the Amrani brothers and Reda Turki, wants to sell up to 20% of its share capital to an investor. [...]

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Erdogan sets out to conquer Africa

Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in West and North Africa. [...]

Business 09/02/2021

Dahmani ousts ex-minister Tamazirt from La Belle food oil plant as corruption charges mount up

The last Bouteflika-era minister of industry and former boss of the public holding company Agrodiv, Djamila Tamazirt, has left the board of COG La Belle just as she comes up for trial in two corruption cases. [...]

The gas installations of In Salah, Algeria.

Oil & gas 04/02/2021

Petrofac files for arbitration at risk of losing Sonatrach markets

Petrofac had no other choice but to bring the courts into its dispute with the oil trio Equinor-BP-Sonatrach but may end up paying a high price for the move. [...]

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his Chief of Staff Said Chengriha on 10 October 2020.

Politics 04/02/2021

Tebboune moves to root out Gaid Salah's legacy in intelligence services and the army

Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his military chief of staff Said Chengriha want to erase the legacy of Chengriha's predecessor, Ahmed Gaid Salah, who had put the intelligence services under the control of the army. This major overhaul could take place as soon as the president returns from Germany. [...]

Business 01/02/2021

From cement works to malls, Malik Rebrab carves up Cevital family empire

Less than two years after taking over the helm of country's largest holding company Cevital, Malik Rebrab, one of Issad Rebrab's sons, is casting off several key projects that have been blocked by his father's long-standing disputes with the government. [...]

Business 01/02/2021

Algerian ports still filled with French wheat despite regulatory changes

Faced with growing competition from northern and Eastern Europe, French wheat producers stand their ground. [...]

Business 27/01/2021

Social housing windfalls for Turkey's Atlas, Ozgur and Doruk

A public housing agency has awarded a billion euros of contracts to three Turkish firms over the course of a single month. Ankara suspects one of them, Atlas Génie Civil, of belonging to a key supporter of Fethullah Gulen, Reccep Tayyip Erdogan's bete noire. [...]

Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum met his Angolan counterpart Tete Antonio on 14 January 2021.

Diplomacy 21/01/2021

As AU's position on Western Sahara shifts, Minister Boukadoum is sent to rally "last" allies

The Algerian foreign minister Sabri Boukadoum has paid a visit to the few, still pro-Polisario capitals in Africa with the hope of gaining room for manoeuvre on the matter of the disputed region. He came away disappointed. [...]

Business Defence 19/01/2021

Leonardo speeds up Sétif helicopter project

Italian manufacturer Leonardo is betting on the fourth quarter of 2021 for the arrival of its first "made in Algeria" helicopter, which is being built in partnership with the Armée Nationale Populaire. [...]

Business 12/01/2021

Algeria reaps what sowed from its eastern European wheat purchases

Separate shipments of wheat from Latvia and Estonia have been found to be sub-standard following their arrival in the ports of Algiers and Ghazaouet. These incidents are the result of Algeria's new policy on wheat imports. [...]

Diplomacy 08/01/2021

Jean Castex abruptly postpones Algiers visit

The French prime minister Jean Castex, who was due to travel to Algiers with several of his ministers on 18 January, has postponed his trip due to diary clashes. [...]

Oil & gas 07/01/2021

Vigil Grup to protect Sonatrach, Total and Repsol's oil interests in Tin Fouyé Tabankort

Groupement Tin Fouyé Tabankort (GTFT) has hired private security firm Vigil Grup to provide armed security its the offices and sites through a €3.1m contract signed on 17 December. [...]

Politics 06/01/2021

Battle at the top for control of state's online ad sales

The head of the national publishing and advertising agency ANEP, Adel Kansous, and communications minister Ammar Belhimer are locked in a struggle to control the future entity that will decide which online media the state will spend its advertising money on. [...]

Oil & gas 04/01/2021

Why Berkine Basin alliance with Sonatrach could be a windfall for ENI

The Italian oil major is hoping this year to finalise a deal with its Algerian partner Sonatrach to develop the Berkine basin fields. If confirmed, this partnership would greatly increase ENI's production in the country. [...]

Major General Said Chengriha, Algerian National People's Army chief of staff.

Politics 24/12/2020

Chengriha brings generals into the fold with Tebboune still out of action

Army chief of staff Chengriha wants to bring back retired senior officers banned by his predecessor Ahmed Gaïd Salah and nip in the bud any dissent within the ranks arising from President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's prolonged absence. [...]

Business Investments funds 22/12/2020

Agrifood: AfricInvest hungry for Sobco's Palmary biscuits

Now that it is no longer tied up in the struggling drinks firm NCA Rouiba, the Tunisian private equity company AfricInvest is keen for a slice of the fast-growing biscuit manufacturer Sobco. [...]

Business 15/12/2020

The developer, the MP and the architect: Bourouag family rides high on state contracts

The low-profile but well-connected Groupe Bourouag Construction has won a contract to build 950 social housing units, brushing aside criticism from beneficiaries and its main client, the public agency AADL. [...]

Business 11/12/2020

El Amine Gard dethrones Vigil Grup in Hassi Messaoud

Nothing seems to be going the way of Vigil Grup, the security firm owned by the retired Republican Guard colonel Ahmed Assassi. [...]

Business 08/12/2020

Berrahal clan bestows keys to sugar empire to two former Natixis execs

The Berrahal brothers have entrusted their Oran sugar refinery to a new executive director, a decision that shields them from the politics of the sector. [...]

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FEMA follows in the footsteps of Turkish construction giants

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Tebboune moves to root out Gaid Salah's legacy in intelligence services and the army

From cement works to malls, Malik Rebrab carves up Cevital family empire

Algerian ports still filled with French wheat despite regulatory changes

Social housing windfalls for Turkey's Atlas, Ozgur and Doruk

As AU's position on Western Sahara shifts, Minister Boukadoum is sent to rally "last" allies

Leonardo speeds up Sétif helicopter project

Algeria reaps what sowed from its eastern European wheat purchases

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Petrofac files for arbitration at risk of losing Sonatrach markets

Tebboune moves to root out Gaid Salah's legacy in intelligence services and the army

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Algerian ports still filled with French wheat despite regulatory changes

Social housing windfalls for Turkey's Atlas, Ozgur and Doruk

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Leonardo speeds up Sétif helicopter project

Algeria reaps what sowed from its eastern European wheat purchases

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Vigil Grup to protect Sonatrach, Total and Repsol's oil interests in Tin Fouyé Tabankort

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