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Bouteflika makes social-minded cuts in infrastructure plan

Confronted with a drop in oil receipts and the risk of serious social unrest after the holiday period, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has slashed major infrastructure programs while seeking to spare the most "social-minded" among them.Joining the government only last May, finance [...] (565 words)

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Amar Ghoul
Boudjemaa Talai
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After having been convinced at first of the potential of the Algerian market, Spanish construction company Ortiz Construcciones y Proyectos [...]

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ALGERIA Business 30/06/2016

Boudiaf Jr launches into pharmaceuticals via Cuba

Zakaria Boudiaf, son of health minister Abdelmalek Boudiaf, has gone into the importation of pharmaceutical products with the Djebbar family, owners of Algerian pharmaceuticals company Lad Pharma. Here are some revelations about an alliance which has its roots in… Cuba! [...]

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Hasnaoui and FCM chase Tlemcen hospital contract

Construction group Hasnaoui and its Portuguese partner FCM are to bid for the contract to build the Tlemcen university hospital [...]

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Ghoul turns to Chinese rail companies to spruce up spa resorts

Tourism minister Amar Ghoul is taking good care of China’s giant rail engineering companies by awarding them contracts to… renovate [...]

ALGERIA Business 14/01/2016

Hospital projects hit by austerity virus

After the tramways (MC 1172) and urban cable cars (MC 1178), the winds of austerity currently blowing through Algiers have [...]

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Sellal to privatise major infrastructure management

Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal is discreetly preparing to privatize the [...]

ALGERIA Business 17/12/2015

Teixeira Duarte wins first health contract in Rouiba

Portuguese engineering and construction group Teixeira Duarte has quietly moved into the health sector. It won a contract for construction [...]

ALGERIA Business 03/12/2015

China Railway grabs rail, road and housing contracts

The China Railway Construction Corp (CRCC) is interested in the contract for electrification of the railway line between Annaba and [...]

ALGERIA Business 19/11/2015

The EMA cuts the funding for Poma’s cableways

The arrival in Algeria of cableway specialist Poma looks likely to be less profitable for the company than expected. The [...]

ALGERIA Business 05/11/2015

Vinci believes in PPPs

Vinci Concessions sent its international director Nicolas Deviller to the [...]

ALGERIA Business 15/10/2015

Bouchouareb reasssures Alstom in Paris

Abdessalem Bouchouareb will take part in a Franco-Algerian meeting at [...]

ALGERIA Business 08/10/2015

EMA cancels rails contract as Alstom trams arrive

The ceremony to mark the delivery of the first trams from the Cital plant in Annaba on September 29 had [...]

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ALGERIA Politics 17/09/2015

A rejuvenated security team for the post-Bouteflika era

The security shake-up carried out by Abdelaziz Bouteflika will enable him - and his successor when he hands over power - to make use of a completely new security high command. This promises to be useful at a time when [. [...]

ALGERIA Business 03/09/2015

Sinohydro switches to social housing and hospitals

Long-time leader on the hydraulic engineering market, Sinohydro will shortly start construction of 4,000 public sector homes for rent in [...]

ALGERIA Energy 14/07/2015

Sonatrach forced to bite the cost-cut bullet

Sonatrach’s new development plan for 2016-2020 - and the first of new chief executive Amine Mazouzi - calls for a [...]

ALGERIA Business 12/02/2015

BP cut back on investment in the south Free

The British oil major BP has put an end – at least provisionally – to its exploration operations on Bourarhet [...]

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ALGERIA Politics 22/01/2015

Bouteflika moves to contain a shale gas revolt

Unprecedented protests in the far south of Algeria have combined with the virtual collapse of crude oil prices to prompt the Bouteflika clan to bypass the government and manage the country's affairs directly. And this even though the aging president [. [...]

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Door shut to jobless in south

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ALGERIA Politics 13/12/2012

Commemoration and contracts for Hollande

French president François Hollande's host when he arrives for a state visit on Dec. 19-20 will be Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been reinvigorated by calls to stand for a fourth term (MC 1043). Hollande's ratings in the polls at home [. [...]

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MSC takes Algeria to ICSID to try to recover its dividends Free

Dounia Park comes back to haunt Algeria at ICSID Free

Vision 2030 already under threat?

Abdelmadjid Tebboune will draw on business experience

Spain’s Ortiz Construcciones takes Algeria to arbitration

Boudiaf Jr launches into pharmaceuticals via Cuba

Hasnaoui and FCM chase Tlemcen hospital contract

Ghoul turns to Chinese rail companies to spruce up spa resorts

Hospital projects hit by austerity virus

Sellal to privatise major infrastructure management

Teixeira Duarte wins first health contract in Rouiba

China Railway grabs rail, road and housing contracts

The EMA cuts the funding for Poma’s cableways

Vinci believes in PPPs

Bouchouareb reasssures Alstom in Paris

EMA cancels rails contract as Alstom trams arrive

A rejuvenated security team for the post-Bouteflika era

Sinohydro switches to social housing and hospitals

Sonatrach forced to bite the cost-cut bullet

BP cut back on investment in the south Free

Bouteflika moves to contain a shale gas revolt

Door shut to jobless in south

Commemoration and contracts for Hollande

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