2023-08-26 09:25:00
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LETTER FROM ALGIERS. Crises and speculative fever are forcing the pulses market now struggling with the state monopoly for imports.
By our correspondent in Algiers, Adlène Meddi In Algeria, the supply of pulses has been fluctuating for several months, between shortages and increases. (Illustrative image.) Published on 08/25/2023 at 11:00 a.m. – Modified on 08/26/2023 at 09:25 a.m.
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It has become a quasi-state affair. At the beginning of August, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune suspected the “Issaba” – gang, qualifier of the old money powers under Bouteflika – to be behind the recent surge in rice and pulse prices “to encourage monopoly and speculation”. “These practices cannot be tolerated and those involved will be tried and the most severe penalties will be applied to them,” he threatened.
Thus, in mid-August, the police seized in Boumerdès, east of Algiers, 44 tons of lentils and rice in a warehouse “suspected of being used for speculation”, according to the police press release. . This specifies that “the suspects are suspected of belonging to a large-scale criminal group operating with the aim of controlling…
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