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Again, Algerian state media caught red-handed spreading fake news on iron mine project

Algeria’s state-run news agency APS, along with other public media outlets, has come under renewed criticism after publishing claims that leading US and international media had praised the Gara Djebilet iron ore megaproject. A closer review shows that no such articles exist, and the supposed quotations appear only in Algerian state-controlled outlets. The APS report, […]

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Algeria arrests economists who criticized Tebboune’s iron mine project

Reports suggested that Algerian economist and financial-engineering expert Djelloul Slama has been detained after commenting on the country’s iron-ore megaproject project, marketed as an economic milestone by the regime of Tebboune. Slama is a well-known media commentator whose analyses on Algerian economic policy, fiscal imbalances and structural challenges are widely disseminated in Algeria. He is […]