Oct 30, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was evacuated to specialist hospital in Germany on 28 October having been in an Algerian military hospital for perhaps as long as ten days after contracted COVID-19. Aged 75 — and as a heavy smoker and reputed drinker with underlying...
Oct 9, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
There are two outstanding questions amidst the many recent fraud trials of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s inner circle including: favoured oligarchs such as Ali Haddad, Mahieddine Tahkout and the Kouninef brothers; former ministers such as Abdeslam...
Sep 29, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
On 20 September the Council of Ministers made a decision that suggests that it, along with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, is finally getting to grips with the reality that Algeria is facing bankruptcy. Tebboune has given the impression that he has never grasped the...
Sep 11, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Algeria’s President Abdelmajid Tebboune and his government are currently being embarrassed by revelations of the colossal fortune fraudulently accumulated by the late Army Chief of Staff, General Ahmed Gaïd Salah, (d. 23.12.19) and his family. Menas Associates’ own...
Aug 21, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The Algerian government’s new economic plan has been the subject of a two-day conference and the major focus of the past week’s news. The conference, held at Algiers’ Centre International de Conférences (CIC) on 18-19 August, was addressed by President Abdelmadjid...
Jul 29, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Algeria’s annual 5 July army day promotions are followed on 22 July each year by ‘La fête de la police algérienne’, which celebrates the founding of the Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale (DGSN) on 22 July 1962. This year, however, the police promotions...
