Feb 12, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Today, as we go to press — after spending another month in Germany, following his two months hospitalisation there between late October and late December — there is the first news of President Abdelmajid Tebboune’s health. According to sources close to the Presidency...
Jan 27, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Over the past two to three months, state-owned Sonatrach has been hit by one corruption allegation after another. The fire at the El Merk oil field in October raised questions about nepotism in regard to the appointment of Yamina Hakkar, wife of Sonatrach CEO Toufik...
Jan 8, 2021 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The most significant news of the last few weeks probably concerns the return to Algeria of Khaled Nezzar and the quashing of Mohamed ‘Toufik’ Mediène’s prison sentence. Nezzar — the former Defence Minister who led the January 1992 military coup d’état — was brought...
Dec 21, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
The New Year’s omens are not good. Algeria will start 2021 with: a seriously ill president; the COVID-19 crisis; international condemnation for its abuse of human rights; deteriorating foreign relations; a deepening economic crisis; and allegations of corruption in...
Dec 4, 2020 | Algeria, Menas Associates
Although President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s return from Germany — after having had to be airlifted to a specialist hospital following complications caused by COVID-19 — is expected imminently, there is widespread uncertainty and speculation about his health and whether...
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...
