Kamel Moula

Algeria
French MPs prepare delegation to head to Algiers

In the absence of ambassadors on either side, parliamentary networks in both countries have sprung into action to prevent France and Algeria from severing all ties. Yet even organising a trip between the two is proving problematic.

Algeria
French senator Mellouli's fresh efforts to thaw Paris-Algiers relations

The French parliament is setting up a new delegation to head to Algeria. This despite there being no hint of interest in improving relations from the two country's presidencies.

Algeria
Algiers courts upwardly mobile diaspora

Of the many entities set up to strengthen ties between professionally successful Algerians living abroad and the government back home, the Djazpora association is notable for the solid political backing it enjoys.

Algeria
Pharma giant Novo Nordisk replaces top Algeria exec

After four years as managing director of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk's Algerian subsidiary, Malika de Maillard, born Malika Derghal, will be replaced on 1 July by Hamza Benharkat, who is currently the CFO of the firm's Emirati subsidiary.

Algeria
Ali Oumellal rises to prominence in CREA employers' union

Abdelmadjid Tebboune has appointed Ali Oumellal as executive director of Algeria's leading employers grouping. He will be responsible for calming the atmosphere in an organisation that has experienced some turbulence in recent months.

Africa
VIPs to flock to Africa business summit in Singapore

Organised every two years, the Africa Singapore Business Forum will hold its seventh edition in August and will be attended by more than 30 figures from the world of commerce working on the continent.

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.

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
CREA employers' federation seeks to embody Algerian economic revival

Algeria's brand new CREA employers' federation has hit the ground running and established itself as a key player in the business community. It is keen to distance itself from the defunct business leaders' forum led by jailed oligarch Ali Haddad, a vestige of the last years of the Bouteflika regime.

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.