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August 17, 2024

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Middle East athletes rack up 44 medals at Paris Olympics

Ten Middle Eastern countries won medals at this year's Paris games.

Women queue to fill containers with water from a private irrigation well provided by a farmer in Sbikha town, which has been having drinking water problems for years, near Tunisia's central city of Kairouan on June 25, 2024. Like its neighbour Algeria and large areas of the Mediterranean region, Tunisia suffers from "alert drought conditions", according to the European Drought Observatory. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP) (Photo by FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Algeria’s desalination ambitions to come with heavy financial burden

Francisco Serrano

In Lisbon, reporting on North Africa business

Migrants from Tunisia and Lybia arrive onboard of an Italian Guardia Costiera (Coast Guard) boat in the Italian Pelagie Island of Lampedusa on Aug. 1, 2020.

Analysis

As Europe's far right surges, North Africa immigration takes center stage

The election of far-right politicians in power across Europe will impact EU policy toward North Africa, which has proven to be an invaluable energy partner since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

A man browses a phone in the shade of a tree while a construction worker shields his head from the sun with a water bottle while walking along a street in Algiers on July 18, 2023 during a heat wave. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Algeria hit by water protests as climate crisis deepens

Northwest Algeria's Tiaret is experiencing water shortages due to intense heat and little rainfall, mirroring problems in other parts of the region.

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Algeria signs with ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes as Europe's gas demand soars

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Algeria signs $3.5B deal with Qatari firm to develop world's largest dairy farm

Dairy cows recline in a barn at the Havelland Ribbeck farm on March 22, 2024 near Nauen, Germany.

9% spike in Mideast military spending driven by Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey

TOPSHOT - Saudi elite aerobatic flying team of the Royal Saudi Air Force Saudi Hawks performs during the aviation event 11th Athens Flying Week over Tanagra air base in Schimatari, north of Athens, on September 3, 2023. (Photo by Theophile Bloudanis / AFP) (Photo by THEOPHILE BLOUDANIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Did Gaza protests force Algeria's first KFC restaurant to close?

Analysis

As Mali’s junta pokes at Algeria, what’s at stake for North Africa and Sahel?

Supporters hold a poster depicting Malis interim leader and head of Junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta (L) and Guinea Interim leader and head of Junta, Mamady Doumbouya (R), in Bamako, Mali, on September 22, 2022 during Mali's Independence Day military parade. (Photo by OUSMANE MAKAVELI / AFP) (Photo by OUSMANE MAKAVELI/AFP via Getty Images)

Rina Bassist

By Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Francisco Serrano

In Lisbon, reporting on North Africa business

BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 05: Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd-L) meets with Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia (4nd-R) at the Great Hall of the People at The Great Hall Of The People on September 5, 2018 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Pool/Getty Images)

Analysis

China eyes Algerian oil and gas as it receives Tebboune in Beijing

Algeria's president will want to use next week's visit to China to make a pitch for his country to join the five-nation alliance of emerging economies seen as an alternative to Western hegemony.

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

An employee prepares a basket of groceries at the storage department of the Algerian delivery company Yassir, in the capital Algiers on February 23, 2022. - It's the Algerian start-up that made good: despite the country's notoriously complex business climate, taxi and home-delivery firm Yassir has millions of users and is expanding across Africa. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP) (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI/AFP via Getty Images)

Algeria ready to deliver e-commerce growth

Samuel Wendel

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

A Moroccan farmer walks past solar panels that are connected to a generator which feeds a pump extracting water from underground in Tafoughalt, a little village deep in the mountains of Morocco's eastern Berkane province, on October 31, 2016. As the Cop22 gets underway in Marrakesh, negotiators are thrashing out the details of a landmark global agreement designed to stave off disastrous climate change, but in Tafoughalt that impact is being felt already. Rising temperatures are among the factors making the

How North Africa’s renewable energy regulations can boost FDI

Foreign investors and institutions are showing serious interest in North Africa’s renewable energy industry, but regulations remain key.

A picture shows the Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar's principal site for production of liquefied natural gas and gas-to-liquid, administrated by Qatar Petroleum, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the capital Doha, on February 6, 2017. - The head of energy giant Qatar Petroleum has shrugged off fears that any potential protectionist policies pursued by US President Donald Trump would impact on global oil and gas markets. Saad Al-Kaabi -- who heads state-owned QP, the largest exporter of Liquid Natural

Qatar dominates fragmented Middle East LNG growth amid global competition

Gerald Kepes

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional energy trends

Vladimir Putin, Abdelmadjid Tebboune

Analysis

Algeria’s Tebboune uses reliable partner status to secure Russian arms

Russia's invasion of Ukraine put Algeria in an awkward place, as it plans to walk the diplomatic tightrope with Russia and the West.

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

Activists for the independence of the Western Sahara wave flags and banners reading "Sahara: Only Pace!" during an annual protest organised by the state coordinator of associations of solidarity with the Sahara in Madrid on November 11, 2016 marking the 4th anniversary of the tripartite Madrid agreements demonstrators deem illegal. - The Western Sahara is a territory bordered by Morocco and Algeria and disputed by Spain and Morocco who both claiming sovereignty. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo by GERA

Analysis

One year on, Algeria-Spain blockade shows little sign of easing

Since Algeria imposed trade sanctions on Spain on June 8, 2022, both economies have lost out on billions of dollars in business.

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

Cars drive on a road in the Algerian capital Algiers on February 1, 2017. / AFP / STRINGER (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Algeria bets on Stellantis plant to relaunch country's automotive sector

Francisco Serrano

In Lisbon, reporting on North Africa business

Western Sahara

Analysis

Why is trade between Algeria and Spain still at a standstill?

Since last June, the two countries have severed business and trade relations over Spain's support of Morocco's claim to the contested Western Sahara.

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

Algeria oil field

Sonatrach announces six new oil discoveries in Algeria

The state-owned oil company made several discoveries in the first quarter of this year.

An Algerian flag is displayed on a small boat used by migrants to cross The Alboran Sea, in an open-air warehouse in Almeria, southeast Spain, on October 15, 2021. - At least 309 migrants, 13 of them minors, have died in the western Mediterranean since the start of the year, figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) show. The number of Algerians arriving on the coast of southeastern Spain or the Balearic Isles has soared in recent months. A confidential document compiled by the Spanish

Algeria disbands migrant smuggling network to Europe, arrests nine Syrians

The arrest of the network coincided with a migrant boat capsizing off the coast of Tunisia, killing five people.

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman looks on during a press conference after the 45th Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee and the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting in Vienna, Austria, on October 5, 2022. (Photo by VLADIMIR SIMICEK/AFP via Getty Images)

OPEC+ likely to maintain oil output at meeting, in gesture to US

While the OPEC+ group is expected to maintain oil production at its virtual meeting set for Feb. 1, global demand for oil is estimated to reach a record high in 2023.

Algeria's Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab

Algeria-Italy energy ties strengthen with emission reduction deal

Italy’s Eni and Algeria’s Sonatrach pledged to work together on carbon capture, green hydrogen and more during Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s official visit to Algeria. The North African country is exporting more gas to Europe in response to the Ukraine war.