Sonatrach’s acquisition of the Augusta refinery was supposed to strengthen the downstream oil sector. But the case says more: in a rent-based economy, sovereignty is not measured only by reserves or accounting results. It is measured by productive chains, ports, inputs, standards, spare parts and the prices paid by society.
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Au Mali, l’Office du Niger n’est pas une administration agricole ordinaire : c’est une infrastructure de souveraineté. Des irrégularités financières signalées dans ce périmètre stratégique ne relèvent donc pas seulement de la comptabilité publique. Elles interrogent la manière dont l’État protège ou fragilise son propre grenier.
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Algeria wants to turn petrochemicals into a tool of industrial sovereignty. But a transformed rent does not automatically cease to be a rent.
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In Gafsa, every disruption of phosphate says more than a local conflict: it reveals a strategic rent that enriches public accounts on paper while leaving the mining territory with unemployment, pollution and social anger.
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Soft wheat is never merely an agricultural product. In Morocco, it concentrates the constraints of drought, import dependence, budgetary subsidies and the political fear of higher bread prices.
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African economic forums speak of investment, sovereignty and transformation. But a country is not transformed by announcement: it is transformed by production, employment, energy, taxation and control of value.
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A tuna quota is not just a number assigned to a fleet. It says who fishes, who processes, who exports, who earns and how a maritime resource is inserted into the national economy.
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Tobacco is never only a matter of individual behavior. It is a fiscal object, a commercial market, a smuggling channel and a public health burden. Its contradiction is brutal: the state can collect revenue today while society pays the bill tomorrow.
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A card in a wallet is not yet a change in economic behavior. Algeria’s electronic payment figures show movement, but they also reveal the distance between technical modernization and real banking inclusion.
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In Algeria, import policy is never only a customs matter. When health control enters the commercial circuit, it can protect consumers. It can also become a tool for filtering flows, delaying goods and redistributing access to the market.
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