Oil revenue, tourism collapseThe novel coronavirus was late in arriving to North Africa but the number of COVID-19 cases has been increasing rapidly. “In addition, the two countries have the highest number of deaths not only among North African countries but on the African continent,” he said. “Since 2014, Algeria has been facing a crisis of a shortfall of financial resources due to the decrease in oil prices. There is no doubt that something positive has come out of this crisis: we were forced to work fast on digitization, and we must continue this after the crisis and generalize it at all levels,” Bin Othman said. “The more we reduce the number of people who intervene at the administrative level, the more we reduce opportunities for bribery,” Bin Othman said.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 26, 2020 18:33 UTC