{"id":58823,"date":"2026-04-16T21:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58823"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:46:36","slug":"president-tebboune-appoints-lounas-bouzegza-as-new-minister-of-water-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58823","title":{"rendered":"President Tebboune Appoints Lounas Bouzegza as New Minister of Water Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday officially appointed Lounas Bouzegza as Algeria&#8217;s new Minister of Water Resources, in a move signaling continued attention to the country&#8217;s vital hydraulic infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>According to an exclusive statement obtained by dzwatch, the Secretary General of Naama Province, Masoud Boulaaras, has been tasked with managing the wilaya on an interim basis following the ministerial reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment reflects President Tebboune&#8217;s ongoing commitment to strengthening Algeria&#8217;s water sector, a strategic priority for national development and food security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday officially appointed Lounas Bouzegza as Algeria&#8217;s new Minister of Water Resources, in a move signaling continued attention to the country&#8217;s vital hydraulic infrastructure. According to an exclusive statement obtained by dzwatch, the Secretary General of Naama Province, Masoud Boulaaras, has been tasked with managing the wilaya on an interim basis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}