Algeria

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Algeria
Population:	33.6 mn.
GNI, $ :	122.5 bn.
Debt:	4.0 bn
Overview:	With tens of thousands of Chinese workers, shopkeepers and contractors in Algeria, Algiers hopes that the conflicts between the locals and Chinese in 2009 will subside.

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Vol 3 No 8
June 2010

Beijing in the line of fire

Yet again Chinese companies are being penalised in the anti-corruption campaign led by some of President Bouteflika’s rivals in the security elite

Vol 3 No 8
June 2010

As the graft wars intensify between factions of the Algerian government, several officials are appearing in court in connection with irregularities on contracts with Chinese companies in the East-West Highway project. Beijing denies all wrongdoing and ...

Vol 3 No 5
March 2010

East-West Highway to trouble

Political rivalries in Algiers deepen as Chinese companies are named in an anti-corruption probe into Africa’s biggest road project

Vol 3 No 5
March 2010

Companies and contracts under scrutiny

There are four main strands to the sweeping the anti-corruption investigations launched in the wake of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s win with 90% of the votes cast in the elections on 9 April 2009: the review of the East-West Highway project now costed...

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa

More signs are emerging that China is being drawn inexorably into Africa's internal politics and is being compelled to take sides in wider geopolitical disputes. This time, the trigger was the violence between the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and Han ...

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