Algeria is at an important crossroads
The implications for Algeria of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are potentially profound. Washington is pressing the regime to decide between Moscow or the West. If it chooses Moscow, dire political and economic consequences are likely. If it chooses the West it is...
Algeria: punishing Spain and rewarding Italy
Algeria is in the midst of complex and potentially risky negotiations and deals over its sale of gas to European countries. Algeria — angered by Spain’s support for Morocco over the disputed Western Sahara (Morocco Focus, March 2022) — is therefore trying to...
Algeria at centre of France’s presidential election campaign
Algeria has found itself at the centre of an ugly and blatantly racist presidential election campaign being waged by France’s extreme right wing parties which are promoting a conspiracy theory about North African Muslims replacing the white Christian indigenous...
High oil price enables Algeria to revert to rentier economy
The reason why the Algerian economy is progressively failing is because the regime has remained stuck in its mindset of living off one of the world’s most extreme ‘rentier’ economies: one based almost entirely on hydrocarbon rents. Since the 2014 collapse of the oil...