Algeria
Algiers banks on AIC forum to win back foreign investors

The New Guard
South Africa, Uganda, Morocco, Algeria

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

South Africa Fasiha Hassan, Gauteng's MPL pushing to rejuvenate ANC

Uganda Elison Karuhanga, the Lake Albert-connected oil lawyer

Morocco Boucharab, former IT chief of OCP, LVMH and Total, heads into the cloud

Algeria Benghanem keen to put Algeria back on investors' radar

Algeria
Airbus Helicopters tries to get back in the action with the military and gendarmerie

European manufacturer Airbus Helicopters is proposing to modernise the Ecureuil aircraft in use by the army and the gendarmerie, thus capitalising on the backlog of "Made in Algeria" aircraft produced by its Italian competitor Leonardo.

Algeria
Neither Air Arabia or Fly Westaf likely to launch low-cost flights any time soon

Though all over the news, the creation of Fly Westaf's low-cost carrier is far from a done deal, while UAE giant Air Arabia has put the brakes on its own projects for Algeria.

Algeria
Amid Hyflux row, AEC attempts to save its desalination plants

Against a backdrop of water shortages and as the trial of former water resources ministers gets underway, the Algerian Energy Co, a subsidiary of Sonatrach, is searching for new engineering partners to replace the Singapore company Hyflux.

Algeria
Lean period finally over for Turkey's Dekinsan

The fortunes of the Turkish construction firm Dekinsan are looking a little rosier after it bagged contracts worth 3 billion dinars (€19m) in the course of June.

Algeria
Low-profile Elbayrak Construction enters the big time

Algeria's national housing agency, the Agence nationale d'amélioration et de développement du logement algérienne (AADL), has added a new favourite, Elbayrak Construction, to its accredited list of contractors for large-scale housing construction projects.