Home to almost 450,000 people, Constantine is Algeria’s third-largest city after Algiers and Oran, and is known as the city of suspended bridges. It was selected in 2012 by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO) to be the Arab Capital of Culture in 2015. The city, once known as Cirta, the capital of the...
Considered to be the second largest in the Maghreb after Morocco, Algeria’s advertising sector has experienced slow but steady growth. As the economy becomes more open and the private sector grows, market operators expect that the advertising sector’s potential will finally start to be revealed in the years ahead.
As a market of about 38m inhabitants with substantial energy resources and steady demand for modern infrastructure supported by massive public investment, Algeria has been attracting strong interest from foreign investors over the last few years. During 2009, in the context of the global economic crisis, Algeria saw a fall in revenues from its oil...
With about 95% of the nation’s external trade passing through its ports, Algeria’s maritime transportation sector remains essential to the economy. Despite the country’s strategic location on the Mediterranean Sea, the modernisation of Algeria’s ports has lagged behind when compared to neighbouring countries. With port development mainly focused on...
With an increasingly open environment for private media ventures and the gradual introduction of new competitors, Algeria’s media sector is diversifying the range of products on offer, though the breadth of the sector overall remains confined. Although print publications remain the backbone of the sector, new private television stations are starting...
A major investment plan that is set to reach $286bn between 2009 and 2014 is helping to revamp Algeria’s transport infrastructure, through the construction and upgrading of highways, railways and urban transport systems. Parallel to the government’s infrastructure expansion ambitions, efforts are being made to increase the positive impact that that...
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