Vol 56 No 10 | ALGERIA Road to oblivion 15th May 2015 A spate of trials linked to the East-West Highway, reputedly the world's most expensive road thanks to bribery and contract inflation, sent 16 public officials and intermediaries to...
Vol 56 No 1 | ALGERIA The long goodbye 9th January 2015 There is unease in Algiers where the focus on the President’s health is obscuring long-term political and economic reform Algerians worry about their future in a world where oil, which with natural gas still accounts for over 95% of exports, is trading at below US$55 per barrel....
Vol 55 No 24 | ALGERIA Grim down south 5th December 2014 Peace appears to be returning to the M'zab region (capital Ghardaïa) of southern Algeria where communal violence stoked tension in the run-up to April's presidential election. The clashes...
Vol 55 No 12 | ALGERIA Adrift in dangerous waters 13th June 2014 Bouteflika’s infirmity symbolises a rudderless state. The regime lacks the strength to produce domestic reform or regional reliability It may have been a landslide but President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's April election victory failed to convince. It nonetheless left him and the powerful machine behind him promising a...
Vol 55 No 12 | ALGERIAMAGHREB Take the lead if you can 13th June 2014 Reports of Algerian forces operating in Libya underline the size of the regional security challenge and raise questions about Algiers’ leadership A rise in protest in the south is adding to concern in Algiers that its vast Saharan landmass, which holds most of its key oil and gas reserves,...
Vol 55 No 2 | ALGERIA Après moi, moi 24th January 2014 Despite his infirmity, Bouteflika is set to run again in April for a fourth term. The ruling elite is bereft of political or economic ideas Inconceivable though it seemed only a few months ago that the enfeebled, 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika could stand again after his stroke, that is exactly what he is...
Vol 54 No 19 | ALGERIA Boutef's miracle return 18th September 2013 After reshuffles to the intelligence services and government, the President is unexpectedly back from the dead Enfeebled by an illness that hospitalised him in Paris between April and July, and limited public appearances to stage-managed photo-shoots, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika began the political rentrée as...
Vol 54 No 15 | ALGERIA Leadership in limbo 15th July 2013 Policy and politics are at a standstill as Bouteflika lingers on as President, with no solution to the succession The return of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to Algiers on 16 July after nearly three months of medical treatment in Paris resolved neither the questions about his health nor...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 1 | ALGERIACHINABRIEFING Alger, la Chinoise 30th October 2012 Chinese companies are displacing European powers in African countries where ties were considered to be strongest, and China is set to become Algeria’s largest trading partner ahead...
Vol 53 No 23 | ALGERIA No spring in the step 16th November 2012 Popular discontent remains widespread but unfocused. The looming presidential succession may sharpen choices and increase tension Many Algerians feel that 50 years of independence have left them with little worth celebrating. Yet while dozens of protests about housing, job shortages and other grievances take...