Algeria inaugurates strategic railway to giant Sahara mine
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It is one of the "major strategic projects in the history of independent Algeria", according to the words of the Algerian president. Abdelmajid Tebboune inaugurated on Sunday 1 February a railway line of 1,000 km long. It connects the railway mine of Gara Djebilet, to the south-west, to the border with Morocco, to the city of Béchar, further to the north. The objective is to export the iron from the mine of Gara Djebilet to Oran. This pharaonic …
Algeria inaugurates strategic railway to giant Sahara mine
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday inaugurated a nearly 1,000-kilometre (621-mile) desert railway to transport iron ore from a giant mine, a project he called one of the biggest in the country's history. The line will bring iron ore from the Gara Djebilet deposit in the south to the city of Bechar located 950 kilometres north, to be taken to a steel production plant near Oran further north. The project is financed by the Algerian …
Algeria: Inauguration of a "strategic" railway line towards a mine in the Sahara Admin FCE 01 Feb 2026 - 22:11 Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune inaugurated on Sunday a railway line of nearly 1,000 km crossing the desert to bring iron ore from the south to the north of the country.Mr.Tebboune described this line as one of the "major strategic projects in the history of independent Algeria".
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune arrived on Sunday at Boudghene-Ben Ali Lotfi Airport in the Béchar province to preside over the official launch ceremony for the Gara Djebilet-Tindouf-Béchar Western Mining Railway, one of the largest strategic projects in the history of independent Algeria. The President, accompanied by the Minister Delegate to the Minister of National Defence, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army, General Saïd Chanegriha,…
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