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Eni acquires BP's activities in Algeria

09/08/2022 | Industry

ITALY / ALGERIA. Eni announces the acquisition of the activities of the British BP in Algeria (BP.L), including the gas fields of In Salah and In Amenas in the south of the country.

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Abdoulaye Bathily becomes the new special envoy of the UN Secretary General in Libya

09/08/2022 | People

LIBYA. UN Secretary General Antonio Gutterres has appointed former Senegalese minister Abdoulaye Bathily as his special envoy to Libya. He is the first African to hold the post.

Europlasma commits to the treatment in France of Algerian asbestos waste

09/06/2022 | Industry

ALGERIA / FRANCE. Subsidiary of Europlasma, Inertam signs a framework agreement with Inertam opening the way to the treatment of Algerian asbestos waste in France.

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Algeria calls for direct negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front

09/06/2022 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. On a visit to Algeria, Staffan de Mistura visited the Tindouf camps, met with the Secretary General of the Polisario Front and the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs to try to make progress on the Western Sahara issue.

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France and Tunisia agree to normalize the issuance of visas

09/01/2022 | Society / Institutions

FRANCE / TUNISIA. In a joint statement, the Tunisian and French Ministries of the Interior announced "the normalization by France, with immediate effect, of the modalities for issuing visas in Tunisia.

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TotalEnergies denies plans to withdraw from the Arzew project in Algeria

08/25/2022 | Industry

ALGERIA / FRANCE. Rejecting information published by the Africa Intelligence website, TotalEnergies has indicated that it is continuing its involvement in the project to build a petrochemical complex in Arzew in Algeria.

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Emmanuel Macron on "friendship visit" to Algiers and Oran to renew France's ties with Algeria

08/24/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / FRANCE. The president of the French Republic visits Algeria for three days to renew ties with the country and meet with the Algerian population, especially the youth.

Sonatrach, Occidental Petroleum, Eni and TotalEnergy to drill 100 oil wells together in Berkine

07/20/2022 | Industry

ALGERIA / ITALY / FRANCE. The Algerian Sonatrach signs a "production sharing" contract with the American Occidental Petroleum, the Italian Eni and the French TotalEnergies.

Tunisia and Algeria fail to host the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency

07/19/2022 | Society / Institutions

AFRICA. The Executive Council of Foreign Ministers of the African Union has decided to award the permanent seat of the African Medicines Agency to Rwanda. Algeria came second in the vote and Tunisia third.

Tunisian employers call for a free trade agreement between Tunisia and Algeria

07/19/2022 | Society / Institutions

TUNISIA / ALGERIA. The Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) militates for the signature of an agreement of free trade and free movement between Tunisia and Algeria.

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Engie and Sonatrach extend their gas supply agreement

07/07/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / FRANCE. Sonatrach and the French energy group Engie are extending their natural gas purchase and sale agreement and want to extend it to LNG.

Land borders between Algeria and Tunisia to reopen

07/07/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / TUNISIA. After more than two years of closure because of Covid-19, the land borders between Algeria and Tunisia will reopen from 15 July 2022.

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The Mediterranean in drought

07/05/2022 | Environment

MEDITERRANEAN. Drought is hitting the western Mediterranean this year, with greatly increased fire risks everywhere, and in the worst affected countries a drop in harvests and a threat to drinking water supplies.

Spain delivers gas to Morocco via the Maghreb Europe pipeline

07/05/2022 | Transport

MOROCCO/ALGERIA/SPAIN. Eight months after Algeria stopped its gas exports via the GME to deprive Morocco of this source of energy, Spain is reviving the pipeline to deliver gas to the kingdom, this time in the north-south direction.

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Responsibilities in question after the attempted mass entry of migrants in Melilla

06/27/2022 | Society / Institutions

MOROCCO / SPAIN. Three days after the tragedy of Melilla, in the North of Morocco, which cost the life of thirty-seven migrants, everyone seems to pass the quid.

Algerian president sacks finance minister

06/16/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has decided to sack his Finance Minister, Abderrahmane Raouya, who has been in office for less than four months.

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Algiers castigates EU intervention in its bilateral dispute with Spain

06/14/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / SPAIN. Despite the suspension of a friendship and cooperation treaty, the Algerian government assures that this decision will not affect gas deliveries to Spain.

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Algeria toughens sanctions against Spain with a boycott of Iberian products

06/09/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / SPAIN. After unilaterally breaking off all diplomatic relations with Spain, Algeria decided to suspend a friendship treaty signed in 2002 with Madrid and banned imports from Spain.

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Egypt accounts for 25% of hotel development projects on the African continent

06/02/2022 | Society / Institutions

Egypt and Morocco occupy the top two spots in W Hospitality Group's survey of hotel development projects on the African continent. NORTH AFRICA. A survey conducted by W Hospitality Group (a hotel, tourism and leisure consultancy based in Lagos, Nigeria), in association with the Africa Hospitality...

Eight candidates confirmed to host the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency