After Angela Merkel and Hassan Rouhani, the Algerian leader has failed to meet up with French Premier Bernard Cazeneuve last Thursday though the French leader was scheduled to meet up with the ailing Algerian leader glued to a wheel-chair since 2013, reports say. The media and sources close to the Algerian presidency denied that President […]
French giant Total Energies has ditched a petrochemical project in Arzew in Oran in Western Algeria, a withdrawal that analysts blamed on Algeria’s bureaucracy. The news was relayed by Africa Intelligence news outlet on the eve of a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the country. The French firm has sealed a deal wih […]
A presidential decree, that is yet to be published in the official gazette, has dissolved Algeria’s influential Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS) and created a new intelligence agency known as the Direction of Security Services (DSS.) The new agency is to be led by a retired DRS chief, General Athmane Tartag, making many to […]
