Vol 49 No 8 |
- OIL AND GAS
In January Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil announced that in the newest round of licensing international companies would have to swap assets to get access to the best available licences...
An acquiescent APN is expected to approve contentious liberalisation measures such as Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil's hydrocarbons law removing state oil company Sonatrach's monopoly as regulator of the oil and gas industry; a revised family code that has pleased neither women's rights groups nor the Islamist lobby (well-represented in the APN through the FLN's 'conservative' wing the MSP and Abdallah Djabllah's Islah (Reform party) now parliament's biggest opposition group; a revised law covering land ownership; and ratification of the European Union's association agreement...
The government though would probably be manned by Boutef's familiar liberal allies such as Chakib Khelil as Energy and Mines Minister and Abdelatif Benachenhou at Finance...
As Algeria's grandees fall out journalists enthusiastically report with help from the in-fighting factions claims of corruption and power abuses by Boutef's family and political circle such as Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil (AC Vol 44 No 5)...
He may be more sympathetic than Benflis to economic liberalisation (including Bouteflika ally Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil's new hydrocarbons law dropped by Benflis from the government agenda)...
Meanwhile Boutef's friend and high-profile Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil looked a lame duck even as one of Chirac's blue-chip business companions TotalFinaElf boss Thierry Desmarest said he might invest up to US$1 billion in Algeria...
Influential non-party liberals including Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil kept their jobs...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
That will succeed only if reformists such as Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil manage to separate business management from vested interests...
Third musketeer Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil apparently still enjoys the confidence of Bouteflika and Belkheir (AC Vol 42 No 11)...
Bad news for Benflis The return of the old-timers is bad news for Prime Minister Ali Benflis whose government - notably the minister responsible for public sector reform Habib Temmar and Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil - hopes to reform Algeria's economy by attracting foreign investment...
