ALGIERS-The Special Envoy in charge of the Western Sahara issue and Maghreb countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Amar Belani stressed Monday that the position of the European Union (EU) to fully support the United Nations (UN) efforts to engage a political process for the settlement of the Sahrawi issue “contributes to reducing the campaign led by Morocco to resurrect its 2007 proposal to a vain attempt to circumvent international law.” 

“This limpid position of the EU contributes to reducing the campaign led by Morocco to resurrect the proposal of 2007 to a vain attempt to circumvent international law,” stated Belani after the response of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy JosepBorrell regarding the Sahrawi issue.

 “The souk of Marrakech will remain a mystification and a swindle in which the puppeteer Bourita (Minister of Foreign Affairs) has lost the little credibility he had…,” wrote Amar Belani.

BOUDJEDOUR (Sahrawi Refugee Camps)- The president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and secretary general of the Polisario Front, BrahimGhali, said Friday at the Sahrawi refugee camp of Boudjedour that the

10th Congress of the Youth Union of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro was a decisive event in the history of Western Sahara people.

Speaking at the 10th Congress of the Youth Union of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, under the theme “Sahrawi Youth, mobilized and conscious force to win the last battle,” Ghali said the celebration of the anniversary of the outbreak of Sahrawi people’s armed struggle and the holding of the congress have significant meanings,” adding that “the Revolution of May 20 is always linked to the youth.”

The Sahrawi president said Western Sahara’s youth remained at the centre of the plans, the policies and the programmes of the Sahrawi leadership, as part of the strategic guidelines adopted by the Polisario Front, combining liberation with construction and focusing first and foremost on the human factor as the main element in the decisive battle.

“The Congress of the Youth Union of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro has a leading role in the political organization of the Polisario Front, a source of energies and skills,” Ghali said.

The congress, he added, is also “a school for activists faithful to the oath of their martyrs and their principles and committed to their goals.»

The draft of the new law on investment, presented by the Minister of Industry, provides a series of measures to implement the commitments of the President of the Republic to the improvement of the investment climate and ensure appropriate conditions to free initiatives and diversify the national economy under a comprehensive and stable vision that takes into account the principles of freedom of investment, transparency and equality, and under the provisions of the Constitution of 2020.

This vision also takes into consideration the reorganization of institutions working in the field of investment by focusing the missions of the National Investment Council (CNI) on the proposal, coordination, and evaluation of the implementation of national policy on investment.

Moreover, the new law on investment provides for changing the name of the National Agency for Investment Development (ANDI) to the Algerian Agency for Investment Promotion, and assigning it the “the role of promoter and support to investment through the creation of a single window with national competence for large-scale projects and foreign investment, and the creation of decentralized single windows for local investment.” 

The Agency will also be responsible for “fight against bureaucracy through the digitization of procedures related to investment, the creation of the digital platform of the investor and the immediate issuance of the certificate of registration of the investment project,” said the same source.

After the presentation of the bill, the President of the Republic welcomed the new version adopted by the Council of Ministers after taking into account the comments and proposals raised during the debate. 

Indeed, the new law on investment “provides further guarantees on the principle of freedom of investment and legislation to protect investors from bureaucratic abuses through the creation of an independent high-level mechanism, composed of judges and economic and financial experts. Placed under the Presidency of the Republic, this mechanism will be responsible for ruling on complaints and appeals filed by investors.”

The recommendations include the placement of the Algerian Agency for Investment Promotion under the authority of the Prime Minister, the reduction of the import bill, and the imposition of maximum penalties to any person hindering, in any way, the investment operations, whatever his position or the nature of his responsibility, said the statement.

The Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria in Uganda informs that the first edition of the ”Digital African Summit” trade show, organized by the Algerian Group of Digital Actors (GANN), under the sponsorship of the three Ministerial Departments, namely, Digitization and Statistics, Knowledge Economy and Startups and, Post and Telecommunications, will be held on May 31^th, June 1^st and    2^nd, 2022, at the International Conference Center (CIC), Algiers.

The ”Digital African Summit” is destined to replace the national ”Digital 2.0” exhibition, which for ten years, was a privileged crossroads for the reinforcement of the ecosystem and the development of     the local market in the field of digital and ICT.

With an international scope, this fair will offer Algerian startups and operators taking part in this show, a better visibility and strategic positioning in the African digital market, through interaction with their counterparts in different African countries.

In this perspective, the programme of this new edition provides for the organization of an exhibition      of about fifty stands, B to B meetings, and a forum dedicated to the Directors of Information Systems (DSI) of Public and Private Companies at the African level.

Regarding the conditions for participation, interested companies and institutions can, for more information, consult the website below, dedicated to the show:

www.digitalafricasummit.com

Or contact the organizers directly whose contact details are as follows:

The Algerian Group of Digital Actors (GANN)

Adressee : Lot Azouz Abdellah, N°81, Zéralda, 16121, Alger – Algérie

Tel : +213 560 364 557

Fax : +213 25 238 136

E-mail : dasexpo@gaan.dz   /  president@gaan.dz

Web-Site : www.gaan.com

Under the supervision of the Ministry of Trade and Export Promotion, the Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in cooperation with the agency “ALGEX”, is organizing a mission for Algerian businessmen to Uganda from 18 to 21 May 2022, in the context of revitalizing economic and commercial relations between Algeria and Uganda and defining the fields of cooperation and partnership between businessmen of the two countries and to explore the opportunities available in the Ugandan market.
The economic sectors involved in this task are: pharmaceutical industries, food industries, electronic industries, mobile phones, agricultural equipment, fuel and financial industries.
Accordingly, Algerian institutions concerned with the mentioned economic sectors and interested in participating must fill out the form by clicking on the following Link, before the date of Thursday, April 28, 2022.
It should be noted that the costs of airfare and accommodation are the responsibility of the participating institution