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Spotlight | Algeria
Bouteflika makes social-minded cuts in infrastructure plan

Confronted with a drop in oil receipts and the risk of serious social unrest after the holiday period, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has slashed major infrastructure programs while seeking to spare the most "social-minded" among them.Joining the government only last May, finance [...]

Published on 23/07/2015 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Algeria Ghoul turns to Chinese rail companies to spruce up spa resorts

Algeria Hospital projects hit by austerity virus

Algeria Sellal to privatise major infrastructure management

Algeria Teixeira Duarte wins first health contract in Rouiba

Algeria China Railway grabs rail, road and housing contracts

Algeria The EMA cuts the funding for Poma’s cableways

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Algeria EMA cancels rails contract as Alstom trams arrive

Spotlight | Algeria A rejuvenated security team for the post-Bouteflika era

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Algeria Sonatrach forced to bite the cost-cut bullet

Algeria BP cut back on investment in the south

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Spotlight | Algeria
Bouteflika makes social-minded cuts in infrastructure plan

Algeria
MSC takes Algeria to ICSID to try to recover its dividends

Algeria
Dounia Park comes back to haunt Algeria at ICSID

Algeria
Vision 2030 already under threat?

Algeria
Abdelmadjid Tebboune will draw on business experience

Algeria
Spain’s Ortiz Construcciones takes Algeria to arbitration

Spotlight | Algeria
Boudiaf Jr launches into pharmaceuticals via Cuba

Algeria
Hasnaoui and FCM chase Tlemcen hospital contract

Algeria
Ghoul turns to Chinese rail companies to spruce up spa resorts

Algeria
Hospital projects hit by austerity virus

Algeria
Sellal to privatise major infrastructure management

Algeria
Teixeira Duarte wins first health contract in Rouiba

Algeria
China Railway grabs rail, road and housing contracts

Algeria
The EMA cuts the funding for Poma’s cableways

Algeria
Vinci believes in PPPs

Algeria
Bouchouareb reasssures Alstom in Paris

Algeria
EMA cancels rails contract as Alstom trams arrive

Spotlight | Algeria
A rejuvenated security team for the post-Bouteflika era

Algeria
Sinohydro switches to social housing and hospitals

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Sonatrach forced to bite the cost-cut bullet

Algeria
BP cut back on investment in the south

Spotlight | Algeria
Bouteflika moves to contain a shale gas revolt

Algeria
Door shut to jobless in south

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Commemoration and contracts for Hollande