Abdelmadjid Tebboune

Algeria
Abdelmadjid Tebboune makes changes in presidential communications

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has reorganised the main branches of the president's office, much to Communications Director Kamel Sidi Said's dismay.

Algeria
Investment promotion agency plans foreign tour

The new body set up in September 2022 is aiming to attract and reassure investors with new incentives.

Algeria
IDRI's soft power ambitions fettered by management instability

Algeria's Institut Diplomatique et des Relations Internationales (IDRI) was created as a training centre for diplomats and now hopes to become an influential think-tank as well. But its ambitions have been hampered by constant changes in its top management.

Algeria, Libya
Cevital dabbles in business with Libya

Food processing firm Cevital is taking advantage of exemptions granted by Algiers to export sugar to Libya again.

Algeria
Kamel Sidi Said, Tebboune's prime mover in ANEP's allocation of ads

The director of communications in the president's office is a key player in the distribution of advertising by the government agency in support of the press.

Algeria
French foreign ministry's Africa director expected in Algiers

The French foreign ministry's top Africa diplomat Christophe Bigot is expected in Algiers over the next few days to discuss the situation in Niger.

Algeria
'Amir DZ' still struggling to get political refugee status in France

The presence in France of the Algerian cyber-activist "Amir DZ", who has been condemned to death in his own country, would appear to be an embarrassment for the French government, as the prospect of a historic reconciliation between Paris and Algiers becomes increasingly remote.

Palace Intrigues
Félix Tshisekedi, Andry Rajoelina, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Paul Biya

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

DRC Theft of 120-tonne shipment of copper raised in Tshisekedi meeting

Madagascar Rajoelina's former chief-of-staff's missed meeting

Algeria Tebboune's first UN General Assembly in NYC

Cameroon The military lobbies Biya

North Africa
Macron holds on to North Africa adviser Durel for another year

Patrick Durel, French President Emmanuel Macron's adviser on North Africa, to stay on for another year.

Algeria
Mahrez Djeribi confirmed as head of military intelligence unit

On 4 July, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune promoted Colonel Mahrez Djeribi, acting director of the army's military intelligence unit, to the rank of general, in a tacit confirmation of the officer's position at the head of this major intelligence service.

Algeria
Cevital to resume sugar exports to Europe

Following a year-long export ban, sugar refined by the Algerian company can start crossing the Mediterranean again.