Jan 22, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Surprisingly, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has not appointed a single Minister for the Economy. This means that ten members of the new government share the main economic files in facing the country’s currently alarming financial situation. The ten and their profiles...
Jan 22, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Politics & Policy Algeria enters 2020 in a state of extreme political uncertainty with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune — who was illegally elected on 12 December on the orders of an army head who died eleven days later — having little or no legitimacy and a newly...
Jan 8, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Following General Ahmed Gaïd Salah’s death, President Abdelmajid Tebboune appointed the 74-year-old Major-General Saïd Chengriha as interim Army Chief of Staff. The two generals were very close for a long time having often served together in the same command in the...
Dec 3, 2019 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The past week has been dominated by two main stories: the second week of the election campaign and infighting amongst the army’s top generals. The main body of this issue of Algeria Politics & Security analyses the renewed infighting amongst the country’s most...
Nov 12, 2019 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The 12 December election will almost certainly go ahead but whether there will be an election campaign — or what sort it will be — is another matter altogether. Algeria’s former prime ministers and election frontrunners – Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Ali...
Oct 31, 2019 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The increasingly confrontational political climate will make this November a critical month. The current mood suggests that the regime-imposed 12 December election will be forced through, although many analysts and commentators still believe it will have to be...
