Algeria pushes for regional ties at UN Summit
Algerian Secretary of State for National Community Abroad, Sofiane Chaib, highlighted the nation’s efforts to drive development across Sub-Saharan Africa at the UN’s third conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LDCs) on the 6th August, as per Algeria’s government-friendly outlet, Al24news.
This comes under Algeria’s stated strategy to strengthen South-South cooperation and enhance regional integration and reflects the country’s increasing international prominence, as highlighted by its invitation to Qatar’s social development summit in May.
Chaib emphasised Algeria’s role as a ‘transit country’ within Africa, defined by the UN as a country that a shipment or individual passes through on their way to a final destination.
This had led Algeria to facilitate intra-African infrastructure projects, like the Trans-Saharan Highway, Trans-Saharan gas pipeline, and Trans-Saharan fiber optic backbone.
Chaib further reiterated the numerous obstacles that landlocked developing countries face, including limited infrastructure investment, weak technological transfer, and the growing impacts of global warming.
He argued that solutions lie in the conference’s recommendations, alongside those of the Fourth UN Conference on Financing for Development, held recently in Seville from June 30 to July 3, 2025.
The UN’s third conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held from 5 to 8 August 2025 in Awaza, Turkmenistan, under the theme “Driving Progress Through Partnerships,” convened 32 landlocked developing countries alongside transit countries, international financial institutions, and the private sector. The conference centred on the launch of the Azawa Programme of Action (2024-34).
This framework is meant to tackle the barriers to development facing LDC’s, including high trade costs, poor infastrcture and limited access to global markets.
Al24news, Maghrebi.org
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