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Spotlight | Algeria
“Special” Arab Spring budget this year

Algeria’s largesse will know few limits in 2012. The budget for the new year, confirmed by president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, breaks the piggy bank of many government departments. The leadership’s aim is to counter potential unrest by showing people that Algeria’s [...]

Published on 05/01/2012 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Abdelmalek Sellal
Amar Ghoul
Conseil National Economique et Social
Djamel Ould-Abbès
Mohamed Kebir Addou
Seghir Babes

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Cosider-Vinci alliance collapses

Algeria’s state-run Cosider concern will do without Vinci’s services to build low cost housing in Algeria. According to our sources, [...]

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Bouygues' share in huge housing project

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Italians in vanguard for building boom

Italian building and public works companies look set to make hay out of a drive by Algeria to build 300,000 [...]

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Spotlight | Algeria
Winners and losers in 2013 budget

While the 2012 budget was marked by stop-gap expenditure here and there to head off a possible "Algerian spring" (MC 1000), this year’s expenditure has an austerity look about it. Most government departments will see their operating budgets mark time [.

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The street under strict surveillance

Is Algeria about to erupt in a new series of riots similar to those in January and in July? The [...]

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Desalination plants to dot coast

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Spotlight | North Africa
Why Algiers & Tunis are to drop Kadhafi

Stalemate appears to still prevail on the ground in Libya but it could be broken once and for all by a change in the stance of neighbouring countries. At present, the fact Muammar Gaddafi clings to power is due largely [.

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Algeria
Bouteflika’s spring-clean

Abdelaziz Bouteflika has cancelled several oil contracts that were awarded by the former CEO of Sonatrach, who was recently sent down for a year for corruption.

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Spotlight | Algeria
A scenario for early elections

In announcing a constitutional reform as well as changes in legislation regarding elections and political parties, Abdelaziz Bouteflika opened a door to early elections without specifically saying so. And such a possibility is being openly discussed in ruling government circles.

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Spotlight | Algeria
Political divisions stall uprising

As the demonstration on February 12 illustrated, the Coordination Nationale pour le Changement et la Démocratie (CNCD) is having trouble drumming up widespread popular support. If it wants to draw crowds to the February 19 march and subsequent protests, it [.

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Algeria
EU: Cooperation limited to Energy

A request by trade minister Mustapha Benbada to put back to 2020 a total lifting of trade barriers under the [...]

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Abdelmalek Sellal
Amar Ghoul
Conseil National Economique et Social
Djamel Ould-Abbès
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Seghir Babes

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From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Spotlight | Algeria
“Special” Arab Spring budget this year

Algeria
Cosider-Vinci alliance collapses

Algeria
Bouygues' share in huge housing project

Algeria
Italians in vanguard for building boom

Spotlight | Algeria
Winners and losers in 2013 budget

Algeria
The street under strict surveillance

Algeria
Desalination plants to dot coast

Spotlight | North Africa
Why Algiers & Tunis are to drop Kadhafi

Algeria
Bouteflika’s spring-clean

Spotlight | Algeria
A scenario for early elections

Spotlight | Algeria
Political divisions stall uprising

Algeria
EU: Cooperation limited to Energy