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Algiers built its post-independence foreign and domestic policies on core principles designed to maximise state control, leveraging energy sales to manage foreign relationships and placate the population; preserving the military''s independence through balanced international partnerships; and mediating rather than intervening in regional affairs.
Algeria, Africa''s largest natural gas exporter, is making the most of a new era in great-power rivalry and an ongoing energy crisis. Having officially applied in November 2022 to join the BRICS...
This meeting is part of the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the strategic partnership between Algeria and the EU in the field of energy, signed in Algiers in 2013, which is aimed at developing and strengthening energy relations while respecting the balance of interests between the two parties.
The World Bank has had a longstanding strategic dialogue with Algeria on the sustainability of its energy sector. Technical assistance focuses on two key areas: supporting the development of a bankable wind energy program and assisting in the preparation of a strategy to promote renewable energy for various consumer types.
tion of electricity production chains, and the contribution to sustainable develop
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Algeria, Africa''s largest natural gas exporter, is making the most of a new era in great-power rivalry and an ongoing energy crisis. Having officially applied in November 2022 to join the BRICS group of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune''s administration signed up shortly after to extend Belt and Road Initiative projects with China on infrastructure, energy, and space exploration.
Now a vital gas supplier to Europe since Russia''s invasion of Ukraine, Algeria''s windfall profits from energy exports exceeded $50 billion last year, up from $34 billion in 2021 and just $20 billion in 2020. But it has found itself a target of Washington''s demands that allies cut economic ties with Russia regardless of their own sovereign interests.
"There is no sugarcoating it, Algeria''s growing relationship with Russia poses a threat to every nation across the globe," said U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain upon the release last September of a letter signed by her and 26 other lawmakers and addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
"[In 2021] alone, Algeria finalized an arms purchase with Russia that totaled over $7 billion. In this deal, Algeria agreed to purchase advanced Russian fighter aircraft, including Sukhoi 57. The United States needs to send a clear message to the world that the support for Vladimir Putin, and his regime''s barbaric war efforts will not be tolerated," the lawmakers wrote.
Reluctant to endanger security and trade ties with Beijing and Moscow, Algeria has sought to join BRICS in order to chart its own foreign policy more easily while protecting its growing economic opportunities as an energy exporter. Its fellow Arab League members Saudi Arabia and Egypt have also expressed interest in joining BRICS.
China has been the main exporter to Algeria since 2013, displacing former colonial power France, and the pair signed a second five-year strategic cooperation pact earlier in November. Meanwhile, Russia supplies around 80 percent of Algeria''s weapons, making Algeria Russia''s third-largest arms importer, after India and China. Algiers and Moscow held joint military exercises near the Moroccan border in November.
It comes as no surprise that Beijing and Moscow have welcomed the application. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Algeria in May 2022, and during Chinese President Xi Jinping''s state visit to Saudi Arabia last month, he met with Algerian Prime Minister Aymen Benabderrahmane, and the pair vowed to further strengthen relations.
"Algeria would definitely like to join BRICS. The question is whether we will be accepted, because there are certain obligations. We need to bring some of our legislative acts to a common standard," Algiers Gov. Mohamed Abdenour Rabehi told the Russian state news agency Sputnik last month.
Only three weeks ago, Sonatrach, Algeria''s state-owned oil company, and the German gas company VNG signed a contract for the construction of the first green hydrogen plant in Algiers, which will produce 50 megawatts of electricity from solar energy. Algeria is also gearing up to sell its spare electricity capacity to Europe while pushing to double gas exports to reach 100 billion cubic meters per year, compared with 56 billion cubic meters per year in 2022, Tebboune told reporters.
At the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington last month, Tebboune was noticeably absent, preferring to send Benabderrahmane instead as his administration carefully crafts a "neutral" stance in world diplomacy to avoid being drawn into Washington''s criticisms of Russia or Algeria''s authoritarian leadership.
At home, Algeria''s military holds power while Tebboune, who was elected with military support in 2019, has been cracking down on dissent. Last month, Algerian authorities arrested prominent journalist Ihsane el-Kadi and shut down his Radio M internet station, seen as the country''s last remaining independent media outlet.
Lacking domestic political legitimacy, Tebboune''s government has chosen to adopt a more assertive foreign policy and highlight its nonaligned stance with Russia, China, and the West. But, of course, the last addition the BRICS collective made to the group was South Africa in 2010, so Algeria will likely be waiting a long time for an answer. Meanwhile, the country is riding high due to growing demand for oil and gas exports, which make up about 90 percent of Algeria''s foreign exchange income. But when that boom ends, Algerians could once again demand democratic change, as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wednesday, Jan. 11: Ghana releases inflation data for December.
Wednesday, Jan. 11, to Monday, Jan. 16: China''s new foreign minister, Qin Gang, will visit Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin, and Egypt as part of a weeklong trip that began on Monday.
Thursday, Jan. 12: South Africa''s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, hosts a meeting with the country''s delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Saturday, Jan. 14: Tunisia marks the 12th anniversary of the ousting of its former president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
Monday, Jan. 16: Legal challenges to Britain''s asylum deal with Rwanda are heard at the High Court in London.
Benin elections. Opposition parties took part in parliamentary elections in Benin on Sunday for the first time since President Patrice Talon came to power in 2016. Electoral officials are still tallying numbers, with results expected next week. Talon, a cotton magnate, barred opposition parties from participating in the 2019 legislative polls, and only two political parties allied with Talon were allowed to take part in the 2021 presidential election. Most of Talon''s key political opponents have either been jailed or forced into exile.
M23 withdrawals. M23 rebels fighting the federal government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have seized new territory even after agreeing to hand back a previously captured army base, according to the United Nations.
M23 rebels on Friday agreed to surrender to East African Community forces one of the largest bases it seized back in October in the strategic military town of Rumangabo in eastern North Kivu province. However, U.N. intelligence analysts spotted signs that the armed group has occupied other areas, according to an internal U.N. document released on Thursday prior to the handover.
Senegal bans protest. Senegalese authorities banned a protest that had been planned for Jan. 6, saying that the place chosen for the demonstration was subject to "major works" ahead of the country''s Independence Day celebrations.
But supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who had called for the protest, say authorities feared the demonstration would embarrass the government because it was in response to a report published last month by the Court of Auditors, which found irregularities in how the country''s $1.5 billion COVID-19 fund was spent.
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