Texas-based Apache Corporation contemplates investing $1.4 billion in Egypt in 2024

Texas-based Apache Corporation will inject additional $1.4 billion into the Egyptian oil sector, the company’s CEO John Christman told Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly on Sunday August 20. Apache Corporation is the USA’s largest investor in the North African country oil sector. The company according to Egyptian authorities, is poised to pump more investments and […]

Interpol: Another Algerian fugitive nabbed in Morocco

An Algerian fugitive, wanted by French authorities since 2020, was captured over the weekend at the Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport.   The 33-year-old Algerian criminal, who holds French nationality, was arrested upon arrival by Moroccan police on an Interpol red notice. The man is involved in an armed assault that claimed the life of […]

Algeria’s deadly orphanage fire exposes scale of state negligence

Eleven dead, ten of them children with no parents left to bury them. Two days on, the Mohammadia orphanage fire has become as much a story about accountability as about tragedy. Across Algerian social media and in parts of the press, the state was severely criticized for its slow response and safety failures. Eleven months […]