Algeria
Menas’s consultants and in-country experts have been covering Algeria for the past 18 years, providing high quality analysis and assessment of key trends in a country confronting significant political and economic change.
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Are Chinese investors abandoning Algeria?
A measure of Algeria’s economic crisis is that Chinese investors are looking elsewhere in Africa to develop projects under less arduous business conditions. In 2020 there were around 1,100 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation projects in Africa but Algeria...
Algeria – finding useful scapegoats
After several weeks of anticipation, Algeria has finally cut diplomatic relations with Morocco because of what Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra described as a proliferation of ‘hostile acts’ by Rabat. He announced the decision on 24 August but, as Algeria...
Former Sonatrach CEO is extradited from the UAE
Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour (b.1951) — who was Sonatrach CEO in 2017-2019 — was extradited from the UAE to Algeria on 4 August. Algeria’s Justice Ministry’s economic and financial criminal unit is pursuing him in two cases concerning: the disadvantageous 2018...