Tag: Algiers

Algeria: Sonatrach reveals $90 billion investment, Shale gas production set for 2022

December 8, 2014

Chief Executive Officer of state-owned Sonatrach, Said Sahnoun, asserted that their five-year investment plan will go ahead despite plummeting oil prices. Addressing the ninth North ... Read More

Algeria’s Disgraced Ex-Tycoon Khalifa Extradited Home from the UK

December 26, 2013

Former Algerian billionaire tycoon, Rafik Khalifa, has been extradited to his homeland after living in Britain for more than a decade. Once considered the "golden ... Read More

MENA Integration Needed for Security

December 23, 2013

Because of the mounting security situation in the region of Sahel, closer cooperation and integration in Maghreb is needed. According to the final concluding remarks ... Read More

Algeria-Libya Security Cooperation to Be Boosted

December 16, 2013

Algerian authorities have moved to step up security presence along the border with Libya in light of the continuing chaos and instability in the neighboring ... Read More

Algeria’s Ailing Long-Time President Bouteflika to Run for 4th Term

November 20, 2013

Algeria’s 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been nominated by his ruling National Liberation Party (FLN) to run for a fourth term in April 2014. The ... Read More

Algeria hits back after Morocco King’s speech

November 11, 2013

The diplomatic tussle between Algiers and Rabat is showing no signs of dying down after the Algerian foreign minister urged Moroccan authorities to be up ... Read More

Algeria – Iran to “expand and deepen” ties

August 5, 2013

Algiers and Tehran have established very good ties and it is deemed to continue with the incoming president, Hassan Rouhani. During a meeting between high-ranking ... Read More

Algeria: Children, ambassadors of the future

March 28, 2013

The curtains of the 6th edition of the International Children’s Exposition (SIE 2013) have been raised by the Secretary of State to the Minister of ... Read More

Algiers, world’s 4th cheapest city

February 14, 2013

A survey done by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a financial agency has been made public and Algeria has been classified as part of the 10 ... Read More

Algeria Takes Military Action against AQIM

January 5, 2013

Algerian military forces have launched lately a large scale combing campaign targeting Islamist militants groups operating in the Boumerdes-Tizi-Ouzou-Bouira triangle, stronghold of al-Qaeda in the ... Read More