28.02.10 Algeria Focus February issue: Table of contents

POLICY FOCUS
> Tounsi killing highlights murderous splits in senior security establishment: Intense speculations about internal conflicts
> Government sets out a modest budget for 2010.

POLITICS AND SECURITY
> Anti-corruption drive claims more victims: East-west highway affair
> SNC Lavalin shuts down Tizi Ouzou operation
> Remembering the disappeared: Centre for victims of political violence opens
> Archbishop criticises state's 'Muslim bias'
> Politics in brief: Protests grip health and education sectors; Special training for metro officers; Death sentence for Jihadist.

GEOPOLITICS
> Relations with France hit new low
> Algiers accuses US of 'double standards'
> Western Sahara talks go nowhere: Sarhawi activist wins prize for resistance.

ENERGY INDUSTRY
> Hydrocarbons policy-making under scrutiny
> Sonatrach enquiry
> BG buys Gulf Keystone stake
> US relaxed about nuclear plans
> Energy in brief: Skikda refinery leak; Another Egyptian dispute; Polish deal for cooperation.

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
> IMF warns of medium-term challenges to economic growth
> Government contemplates more price fixing
> Renault to open factory in Algeria
> Zinc mine to open in 2013.