May 5, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
State-owned Sonatrach took the decision in April to revoke UK independent Sunny Hill Energy’s interest in the highly prospective Ain Tsila gas field on the grounds that Angelo Moskov — who controversially took over Irish producer Petroceltic in 2015 and changed its...
Apr 28, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
It is now more than three months since 12 February when President Abdelmajid Tebboune returned home from his second period of hospitalisation in Germany where he received treatment for COVID-19, which almost killed him, and an operation on his foot which may have been...
Apr 13, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Algeria is in a dangerous political deadlock as the regime intensifies its measures to destroy an increasingly determined and unified popular Hirak protest movement. The student demonstrations on Tuesday 6 April and the weekly Hirak demonstration on Friday 9 April...
Mar 31, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The recent police brutality against the resurgent Hirak protest movement is one manifestation of the Presidency’s increasing loss of control, as it hits out irrationally against its own people, with inestimable damage to Algeria’s overseas reputation. In a bizarre and...
Mar 12, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Major Hirak marches on 5 March — followed by those with women and students on 8 and 9 March — suggest that the resurgence of the Hirak is here to stay. Except for the protests on 8-9 March, these demonstrations have been met with increased police brutality and...
Feb 26, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Few Algerians know that since November 2017 the country had been engaged in an ambitious industrial project in a joint venture between Sonatrach and the US’ Baker Hughes General Electric (BHGE). It was intended to manufacture, assembly and maintain various types of...
