{"id":58979,"date":"2026-04-20T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58979"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:55:17","slug":"president-tebboune-chairs-council-of-ministers-major-directives-on-mining-railways-water-security-and-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58979","title":{"rendered":"President Tebboune Chairs Council of Ministers: Major Directives on Mining, Railways, Water Security and Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Minister of National Defence, chaired a Council of Ministers meeting today, covering key national development priorities.<\/p>\n<p>President Tebboune opened by congratulating the Minister of Culture on the successful papal visit to Annaba, and issued directives to newly appointed ministers of Mines and Water Resources, setting clear priorities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Water Minister was tasked with developing a new management plan ensuring long-term water security.<\/li>\n<li>Algeria must begin phosphate exports by March 2027 at the latest, coinciding with completion of the mining quay at Annaba port expansion.<\/li>\n<li>Immediate launch of phosphate processing units at Blaad El Hedba mine was ordered.<\/li>\n<li>The Algeria\u2013Tamanrasset southern railway, linking Algiers\u2013Laghouat\u2013Gharda\u00efa\u2013El Menia\u2013In Salah\u2013Tamanrasset, must enter service by end of 2028.<\/li>\n<li>A feasibility study for creating a dedicated Renewable Energy Secretariat of State was directed.<\/li>\n<li>The President praised Sonelgaz workers and called for strengthening the Algerian-Chinese partnership in port infrastructure development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding youth mobilization for upcoming legislative elections, President Tebboune called for greater inclusion of young Algerians, including women, in top positions across all sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Minister of National Defence, chaired a Council of Ministers meeting today, covering key national development priorities. President Tebboune opened by congratulating the Minister of Culture on the successful papal visit to Annaba, and issued directives to newly appointed ministers of Mines and Water Resources, setting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58978,"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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58979","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\/58979","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=58979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}