{"id":59377,"date":"2026-04-25T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59377"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:51:18","slug":"algeria-mauritania-free-trade-zone-set-to-launch-may-2-in-historic-economic-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59377","title":{"rendered":"Algeria-Mauritania Free Trade Zone Set to Launch May 2 in Historic Economic Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Algeria-Mauritania Free Trade Zone is on the verge of becoming fully operational, with construction work now 83.13% complete and an official handover expected on May 2, according to exclusive information obtained by dzwatch during a high-level official delegation visit on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Tindouf province, this strategic project is set to serve as a pivotal logistics and commercial hub, designed to supercharge economic exchanges and boost Algerian exports into African markets.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was conducted in the presence of senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Export Promotion, represented by Abdesslam Jahnit on behalf of Minister Kamel Rezig, alongside Tindouf Governor Mustapha Dahou and several accredited African ambassadors to Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had announced in 2024 the launch of free trade zones with Mauritania, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, and Niger. The Algeria-Mauritania zone will be the first to go operational, marking a defining step in Algeria&#8217;s ambitious African integration strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Algeria-Mauritania Free Trade Zone is on the verge of becoming fully operational, with construction work now 83.13% complete and an official handover expected on May 2, according to exclusive information obtained by dzwatch during a high-level official delegation visit on Friday. Located in Tindouf province, this strategic project is set to serve as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59376,"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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59377","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=59377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}