Algeria president sacks central bank chief

ALGIERS — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Monday sacked central bank chief Rostom Fadli, in office for less than two years, the presidency announced without giving any further explanation.اضافة اعلان

Tebboune appointed Mr Salah Eddine Taleb to replace him. Fadli took office in June 2020 as interim head of the central bank of Africa’s fourth-biggest economy, later being confirmed in the role.

Algeria is a rentier economy dependent on oil exports for 90 percent of its foreign income, and therefore vulnerable to price movements. Despite seeing those revenues explode in recent months with the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the North African country has also been hit hard by concurrent price hikes on its vital wheat imports.


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