Algeria Agrees To Build Energy Pipeline With Italy

Algeria and Italy have greed to build a new pipeline to carry Algeria’s gas and electricity to Europe.

At a joint press conference with visiting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said the project would make Italy “a key distributor of Algerian energies to Europe”.

Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni said in the light of the energy crisis in Europe, Algeria can “become a pioneer supplier at the African and global levels via Italy to all Europe,”

She  noted that Algeria is Italy’s first trading partner in Africa.

the Prime Minister also expressed Italy’s aspiration to diversify partnership with Algeria, especially in the areas of digital infrastructure, communications, biomedicine, industry and renewable energies.
Earlier in the day, Algeria and Italy signed several cooperation agreements during a ceremony co-chaired by Tebboune and Meloni.

The Italian prime minister arrived on Sunday in Algeria for a two-day working visit.

NAN/Confidence Okwuchi