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Algeria Gate: The Minister of Pharmaceutical Industry, Ouassim Kouidri affirmed Algeria’s determination to expand the presence of its pharmaceutical products on international markets, with a particular focus on the African continent, by raising the competitiveness of locally produced medicines and ensuring their strict compliance with global standards.

This was stated during his supervision, on Saturday at the ministry’s headquarters, of the opening of a training course directed at economic operators in the pharmaceutical industry sector. The course aims to accompany these operators in the World Health Organization prequalification process, in order to elevate local manufacturing practices to the level of international specifications, thereby enhancing product quality and opening broader export prospects.

Africa as a strategic destination

The minister explained that achieving health sovereignty goes beyond meeting domestic demand and extends to directing productive capacities outward. He stressed the need to transform national potential into an actual and competitive presence on international markets, considering the African space a promising environment for promoting Algerian pharmaceutical exports.

Government support and international expertise

To ensure the success of this path, the minister called on operators to engage actively in international qualification, pledging that the ministry, in coordination with the National Agency for Pharmaceutical Products, will provide comprehensive technical and regulatory support to institutions wishing to export.

To animate this course, the ministry drew on Algerian experts from the diaspora who possess pioneering experience with the World Health Organization. They presented models of best practices and technical procedures that guarantee the conformity of Algerian medicines with global requirements.

This strategic step reflects a serious governmental orientation toward strengthening the international standing of the Algerian pharmaceutical industry and making an effective contribution to the diversification of the national economy beyond the hydrocarbons sector.

Algeria Gate: President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune is expected in Spain in October as part of the rapprochement underway between Algiers and Madrid after several years of tension.

This visit is expected to mark a new strategic stage in bilateral relations, with several dossiers at the heart of discussions: energy, investment, security, migration and economic cooperation.

For Madrid, the partnership with Algiers is of major importance, particularly on the energy front. For Algeria, the meeting confirms its return to the centre of the Mediterranean diplomatic game and its ability to impose its interests in its relations with European capitals.

After the crisis, Algiers and Madrid want to open a new chapter, but this time on the bases set by Algerian interests.

Algeria Gate: The President of the Republic, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of National Defence, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, chaired a Council of Ministers meeting that addressed several vital files concerning the social front, the national economy and major infrastructure projects, as well as the education and heritage sectors.

A wave of solidarity and immediate compensation

At the outset of the meeting, after welcoming the new ministers appointed in the recent government reshuffle, President Tebboune highly praised the exceptional wave of solidarity shown by the Algerian people from every part of the country and abroad toward those affected by the fires.

The President considered that this show of solidarity painted a bright image of Algeria before the world, expressing his thanks to the workers in the Civil Protection, Sonelgaz, Mobilis and Public Works sectors for their record intervention in restoring essential services. Embodying the state’s support for its citizens, His Excellency ordered that compensation payments begin this week, free of any bureaucratic complications, and directed the Minister of Agriculture to immediately supervise on the ground the compensation of livestock.

Legal firmness and economic revival

On the legal front, the President of the Republic settled the amendments to the Penal Code bill, stressing that the application of the death penalty would be limited to two specific cases: those who start and organise fires that result in death, and those who kidnap and mistreat minors.

On the economic front, he instructed the government to effectively involve national companies in order to multiply production and meet the requirements of major infrastructure projects, with the aim of strengthening the recovery of the national economy and moving away from an unconsidered import policy.

Protecting the Algerian school and enhancing heritage

In preparation for the new school year, President Tebboune ordered that the gains achieved in the education sector be exploited and its human resources invested, strictly emphasising the need to keep educational institutions away from all political and ideological controversies so that discussion remains purely pedagogical, while prohibiting any media promotion of sectoral changes before they are discussed exclusively in the Council of Ministers.

Given preserving identity, the President announced the creation of the “National Agency for Antiquities” to constitute a scientific revolution in the field of excavations. This body will enjoy financial and administrative independence under the direct supervision of the Presidency of the Republic, and will work to highlight the depth of Algerian heritage and its civilisational influence extending over three thousand years, beginning with the Kingdom of Numidia and its capital Constantine.

Railway projects: strategic priorities

At the close of the meeting, the Algerian President praised the pace of completion of the mining railway line (Beled El Hadba – Oued El Kebrit – Annaba Port), expected to begin production in March 2027. He also affirmed that the strategic line linking Tamanrasset to the north of the country (via Laghouat, Ghardaïa, El Menia and In Salah) represents the absolute priority, directing that all efforts be concentrated on delivering it by the end of 2028 as an unprecedented historic achievement.