Algeria's President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is said to have intervened to cancel the plan aimed at opening up farmland concessions to foreign investors.
Algeria cancels plan to offer farmland to foreign investors-official
(Reuters) - Algeria has dropped a plan aimed at opening up farmland concessions to foreign investors for the first time, a government official told Reuters on Monday.
“The president of the republic intervened to cancel the plan,” he said. (Reporting by Hamid Ould Ahmed Editing by Ulf Laessing and Louise Heavens)
