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Zawya
03-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Algeria awards $500mln steel deal to Chinese firm
The Algerian Investment Promotion Agency (AAPI) has awarded a land concession to Chinese steel conglomerate Jingdong Steel for a major steel project. The agreement, signed on Monday, authorises the allocation of a 36-hectare plot within the industrial zone of Dhraâ El-Hadja in the Northern M'sila province for the construction of a advanced steel production plant with a capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year. This investment—valued at $500 million-marks a pivotal development in Algeria's industrial landscape, positioning the country as a future hub for steel and pipe manufacturing in North Africa, AAPI said. The plant will boast a total annual production of 500,000 tonnes, including 200,000 tonnes of steel plates and 300,000 tonnes of steel pipes of varying specifications, to be developed in two distinct phases. Phase 1 will focus on establishing the production line for steel plates, while Phase 2 will witness the installation of a state-of-the-art unit for manufacturing steel pipes, essential for the construction, energy, and water infrastructure sectors. (Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon) (
Free Malaysia Today
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Free Malaysia Today
Oldest Cannes Palme d'Or winner Hamina dies at 95
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina's 1967 film 'The Winds of the Aures' won the Best First Work award. (Photo by AFP) ALGIERS : Mohammed Lakhdar Hamina, the first Arab and African director to win the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, has died aged 95, his family said yesterday. The filmmaker was awarded the prize in 1975 for 'Chronicle of the Years of Fire', a historical drama about the Algerian war of independence. His children said he passed away at his home in Algiers. Hamina – who was the oldest living recipient of the Palme d'Or – competed four times in the festival on the French Riviera. His 1967 film 'The Winds of the Aures' won the Best First Work award. The struggle for Algeria's independence was at the heart of his most famous work, which in six chapters from 1939 to 1954 tells the story of a nation through its people, culminating in the uprising against French colonisation. Born on Feb 26, 1934 in M'sila in the mountainous Aures region of northeast Algeria, Hamina was the son of modest peasants from the high plains. He attended agricultural school, then studied in the southern French town of Antibes, just along the Mediterranean coast from Cannes, where he met his future wife. The couple had four sons together. During the Algerian war, his father was kidnapped, tortured and killed by the French army. He was called up in 1958 and joined the Algerian resistance in Tunis. He learned filmmaking on the job, through an internship with Tunisian newsreels before venturing into short films.
