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Algeria Gate: A passenger bus veered off the road, overturned and plunged down a slope in Algeria’s Boumerdes province on Friday morning, killing 27 people and injuring 42 others, according to civil protection authorities.

The accident occurred at approximately 9:41 a.m. on National Road 24 in the Al-Karma area of Boumerdes commune and district. Civil protection services initially reported 25 dead and 44 injured. The toll was later revised upward to 27 fatalities and 42 wounded, said Nassim Bernaoui, deputy director of statistics and information at the General Directorate of Civil Protection.

Rescue teams were rapidly deployed, including two heavy rescue trucks and 10 ambulances. Operations to free victims and evacuate the injured to hospitals continued as specialized units worked at the scene. Authorities noted that the casualty figures remained subject to further updates.

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the victims. In a message of sympathy, he stressed that justice “will strike with an iron fist and without mercy” once investigations establish the circumstances of the crash. He also declared three days of national mourning, with flags to be flown at half-mast across the country.

On the president’s instructions, Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb led a ministerial delegation to Boumerdes to assess the situation on the ground. The prime minister visited the injured and reviewed the care being provided to them at hospitals in Boumerdes and Algiers.

The crash has plunged Algeria into mourning as rescue and medical efforts continue.

Algeria Gate: President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune has declared three days of national mourning, beginning Friday, after a passenger bus crashed in the Berrahmoun El-Karma area of Boumerdes province.

Throughout the mourning period, the national flag will be flown at half-mast across the country.

Algeria Gate: Algeria is engaged in a new phase of its economic diversification strategy, based on the establishment of integrated value chains linking agriculture, mining resources, energy, the processing industry, railway infrastructure, digital platforms, and export ports. This orientation, led by the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, aims to durably transform the national economic model by reducing the country’s dependence on hydrocarbon revenues.

At the heart of this strategy is a particularly ambitious objective: to raise non-hydrocarbon exports to $30 billion by the 2029–2030 horizon. This target represents a major scale-up, as these exports currently exceed $7 billion. Reaching such a level would require nearly quadrupling foreign sales in just a few years.

This transformation does not rest solely on increasing production volumes. It also involves the development of new industrial sectors, improving the added value of Algerian products, expanding the number of exporting companies, and conquering new international markets.

Despite the progress recorded in recent years, hydrocarbons continue to largely dominate the country’s foreign trade. According to World Bank data, oil and gas accounted for an average of 82.6% of Algerian exports and 45.8% of budget revenues over the 2020–2024 period. These figures show that, despite the growth of non-hydrocarbon exports, the structure of the economy remains heavily dependent on energy revenues.

Recent economic indicators nonetheless point to positive developments. In 2024, Algeria maintained a trade surplus, with exports exceeding imports by $4.482 billion. Merchandise trade approached $100 billion, illustrating the dynamism of the country’s commercial flows.

At the same time, Algeria continues to attract more foreign investment. Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows rose by 18.3% in 2024, according to the latest data presented by the World Bank and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This increase reflects growing investor interest in several strategic sectors, notably industry, mining, renewable energies, and infrastructure.

Through this roadmap, the authorities aim to build a more diversified, more competitive economy that is more oriented toward exports. The success of this strategy will depend in particular on the ability of national companies to move upmarket, strengthen their competitiveness, and establish themselves sustainably in international markets, so as to make non-hydrocarbon exports a true engine of growth for the Algerian economy.