Algeria
CREA employers' federation seeks to embody Algerian economic revival

Algeria
Algiers shelves plans for Cherchell mega-port

The deepwater port of El Hamdania in the northern town will not finally be built. Part of Beijing's New Silk Road strategy, the project was launched in 2015, but has suffered numerous delays, not least 2019's change of political leadership.

Algeria, Mauritania
Algiers deploys soft power in Nouakchott

Algeria's cultural ambassadors are gearing up for the 17th Assalamalekoum Festival in mid-June.

Algeria
Investment promotion agency plans foreign tour

The new body set up in September 2022 is aiming to attract and reassure investors with new incentives.

Algeria
Axing of Algeria's energy transition ministry deals fatal blow to Solar 1000 MW project

After the axing of the Solar 1000 MW project, Sonelgaz subsidiary Sonelgaz ENR-CEEG will now pilot the 15,000 MW programme until 2035.

Mauritania
Nouakchott to build oil and gas training centre

Mauritania has just launched the construction of a training centre for the mining, oil & gas industry and hopes to complete it within 18 months. A call for bids was published on 4 January.

Algeria
General Emballage cements its new recycling business

General Emballage has signed a partnership with cement manufacturer Lafarge Algeria to recycle part of the company's paper waste.

Algeria, France
After a slow start, Medef turns to Tebboune-era employers' organisation CREA

On the sidelines of the Franco-Algerian high-level intergovernmental committee held in Algiers on 9 and 10 October, Medef vice-president Fabrice Le Saché had a long discussion with Kamel Moula, president of the Algerian Economic Renewal Council, CREA.

Palace Intrigues
Vital Kamerhe, OIF summit, Denis Sassou Nguesso, François Gouyette

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

DRC President Tshisekedi's promise to Vital Kamerhe

Africa French-speaking nations summit brought forward due to World Cup clash

Congo Sassou's luxury Airbus A340

France-Algeria French ambassador in Algiers, François Gouyette, still struggles to find his feet

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, France
As they return to Algiers, French bosses caught between old and new worlds

Representatives of more than a dozen major French companies will later this month pay their first visit to Algiers in five years. But the government is unhappy with their umbrella organisation's continuing collaboration with a counterpart entity associated with the ousted Bouteflika administration.

Spotlight | Algeria
Tebboune cleans up Sellal era contracts

Abdelmajid Tebboune, who has been head of government since May 25, has wasted no time in launching a major review of public sector contracts signed by his predecessor as prime minister, Abdelmalek Sellal. According to our sources, Tebboune signed an urgent [.