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By Arezki Daoud: The visit of President Emmanuel Macron to Algiers at the end of August shook up and challenged the Algerian authorities in their once again excellent relations with Russia. The French security and ministerial deployment that accompanied the trip of...

Appointed on June 18, 2022 by the government as CEO of airline Air Algérie, Yacine Benslimane is now under investigation, which risks compromising his leadership position at the airline and could lead him straight to an Algerian court. On October 2, 2022, Benslimane...

The Sahelian nation of Burkina Faso has been a powder keg for some time and this weekend, the coup leader that toppled the previous government has been himself toppled by another coup. The situation in Burkina’s capital, Ouagadougou, has been extremely tense lately, with protesters attempting to raid the French embassy there, as France remains highly unpopular due to its policies in its former colonies.

The Italian media has reported this week about the alleged difficulties faced by the Algerian state-onwed oil company Sonatrach to honor new gas commitments to Italy. Using investigative media Algeria Part as a key source, Italian publications like La Repubblica, LaPresse.it and the Italian edition of the Huffington Post, newspapers reported alleged general state of panic in Sonatrach as “Algeria is struggling to honor its new gas commitments with Italy.” Sonatrach has inked a deal to deliver gad to Italian giant ENI.