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Algeria

SNC Lavalin feels the past is behind it

The Canadian engineering group SNC Lavalin has shaken up the top management at its Algerian branch. According to our sources, [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.06.2014

Bidders can take their time

Algeria’s Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des Ressources en Hydrocarbures [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Rebrab rocks the government boat

Issad Rebrab has clearly decided to make life harder for Abdelmalek Sellal’s government. While he carefully refrains from saying anything [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.06.2014

Benoit Cambourieu

Benoit Cambourieu, political counsellor at the French embassy in Algiers [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 19.06.2014

CNAN wants a real fleet

Only a few months after acquiring two new vessels, state-owned [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.06.2014

Tiaiba named BACE boss

The chief-of-staff of finance minister Mohamed Djellab, Farid Zineddine Tiaiba, [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.06.2014

Rebrab still looking at Fos

Beaten in his quest to acquire Ascometal, Issad Rebrab hasn’t given up the ghost. According to our sources, the boss [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.06.2014

French embassy, Algiers
Paris picks Parant's successor

The French envoy to Algeria, Andre Parant, will be able to shortly pack his bags. Maghreb Confidential understands foreign minister [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.06.2014

Algerian embassy, Washington
Nelson, Bouteflika’s pet astronaut

Algeria’s long-standing ambassador to the United States Abdallah Baali (he has been there since 2008), met with Bill Nelson, Democrat [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.06.2014

Algiers/Paris
Amar Bendjama

Amar Bendjama, Algeria’s ambassador to Paris, will meet with French [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 12.06.2014

European funding for Abraaj

The Saudi Arabian-UAE venture capital fund Abraaj has won active [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.06.2014

Total despairs over Ahnet

The French major wants to benefit from new measures in the 2012 oil code concerning unconventional gas, but Sonatrach has turned it down up to now.

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Sonatrach

The company is facing demands by consumer nations to reduce [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Anadarko jumps into lead

The U.S. group Anadarko surged into the position of Algeria’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Moscow
Victor Briggs

Victor Briggs, managing director of Nigerian Petroleum Development Co, and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Satellite dishes a new military target

Algeria’s Armee Nationale Populaire (ANP) will shortly have its own television channel. According to our sources, the defence ministry is [...]