Oil and gas deals security cooperation could all get caught up in a diplomatic fight As President Abdelmadjid Tebboune unveils a populist campaign to maximise his re-election on 7 September Algiers will broadcast its views on the French government's ‘unexpected inopportune and counterproductive decision' (AC Vol 65 No 1 Tebboune prepares to see off challengers)...

A public critic of the junta Dicko was warmly received by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's government which had been angered by Goïta's abandoning of the 2015 peace accord with Tuareg former separatists (AC Vol 64 No 4 Restive Tuareg ramp up tension)...

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had a positive result from his late predecessor's mixed legacy when he marked the run-up to the holy month of Ramadan by inaugurating the new Algiers Grand Mosque on 25 February...

This more bellicose tone followed Burhan's visit to Algiers three days earlier where he received strong diplomatic support from President Abdelmajid Tebboune...

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune compounded the insult as seen from Bamako by granting an audience to the prominent Malian imam Mahmoud Dicko a frequent critic of the junta...

In Algeria where presidential elections are due to be held in December political insiders reckon that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will see off whatever opposition is allowed to stand and should win another term with a majority vote in the first round...

We hear that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's government is irritated both by the Bamako junta's scuppering of the peace deal that Algeria facilitated and having to host thousands of refugees after the conflict restarted...

It is key to the regional policy of President Abdelmajid Tebboune and military Chief of Staff Major General Saïd Chengriha as a stick with which to beat regional rival Morocco (AC Vol 63 No 9 Navigating through the fog of cold war)...