Economic News Highlights Meeting between Tunisian Minister of Trade and Export Development and Algerian Counterpart
In Algiers, the two officials displayed a common will: to overcome persistent obstacles in the circulation of goods and lay the foundations for durable bilateral economic integration. The goal is clear: to raise Tunisian-Algerian exchanges to the level of the history that unites the two peoples, while jointly opening the way to African markets.
This ministerial meeting, on the sidelines of the 4th Intra-African Trade Fair (Iatf 2025), is part of a broader dynamic, embodied by President Kaïs Saïed's speech at the opening of the event. In a vibrant intervention, the Head of State recalled that Africa could only emancipate itself by regaining control of its wealth and building a project thought out by its own peoples. More than a political plea, it is an ambitious roadmap: economic sovereignty, dignity, and justice as pillars of a new African order.
The parallelism is striking. While the Trade Ministers plan concrete mechanisms to fluidify Tunisian-Algerian exchanges, President Saïed sets the philosophical and historical framework for an Africa freed from external dependencies. The economic dialogue is thus anchored in a political vision: transforming Tunisian-Algerian complementarity into a springboard for continental integration.
Tunisia's presence at Iatf 2025 is a tangible illustration of this. Twenty-four companies, from artisans to startups, showcase national know-how in sectors as varied as textiles, leather, cosmetics, or automotive components. This showcase testifies to a Tunisia that believes in its driving role in emerging Africa. Algeria, for its part, highlights structuring projects - from the trans-Saharan gas pipeline to transport infrastructure - essential for giving substance to economic integration.
Thus, Tunisia and Algeria, linked by an unbreakable brotherhood, have the capacity to do much more than strengthen their exchanges: they can become the hard core of a Maghreb-African economic space. The time has come to overcome bureaucratic obstacles and administrative slowness to enter the era of real complementarity. For, as Kaïs Saïed recalled in Algiers, Africa does not need a simple sectoral project but a project of civilization. And this project begins here, in the Maghreb, with two neighboring countries that choose to walk together towards the future.
