Algeria Rises from the Depths and Ascends to the Ranks of Global Powers:
From the Mines of the Sahara, a New Force Emerges to Reshape the World Order
✍️ BY: Maamar Gani
Algiers – November 2025 – Algeria no longer speaks of the future; it has begun building it—deliberately, boldly, and with the assured posture of a state that knows precisely what it wants and how to reach it. In a turbulent regional and international moment, Algeria stands as the decisive variable in the equation of the coming era, redrawing its economic map far beyond the confines of black gold and breaking into the realms of food security and mineral wealth—today’s most consequential instruments of geopolitical influence.
Deep in the Algerian Sahara, not only has a new chapter of economic history been written, but a structural formula has taken shape—one that unsettles established actors on the global stage. A thousand-kilometer railway line, completed in a mere eighteen months, now links the Gâra Djebilet iron ore mine to the province of Béchar, marking the first historic transfer of iron ore toward western Algeria since independence. This project is more than an infrastructural feat; it is a clear proclamation of the birth of a national steel and iron hub capable of competing with world leaders and reintegrating Algeria—powerfully—into the market of strategic minerals.
Gâra Djebilet, frozen for decades, has been reborn as a colossal workshop anchoring a national megaproject that restores Algeria’s natural status as a global mineral power. Iron is no longer simply an industrial input; it has become a geo-economic lever capable of shaping spheres of influence. In a rapidly shifting world, any nation seeking to reinforce its industrial and defensive capabilities needs iron as critically as it needs energy. Here, precisely, Algeria returns to the map—not as a mere exporter of raw materials but as a state armed with a comprehensive national industrial project.
In parallel, Algeria’s economic engine is moving not only toward iron but toward other treasures buried beneath the sands. The région of Béled El-Hedba is preparing to emerge as one of the largest phosphate and fertilizer hubs in the region, propelled by an unprecedented leap: production soaring from 2.5 million tons to 10.5 million tons annually. This is not a numeric increase alone; it is a transition to a new level of influence over global food security. In a world whose priorities are shifting from oil to food, Algeria is stepping confidently onto the stage as a strategic and reliable supplier, holding one of the key components of fertilizer production—the backbone of 21st-century agriculture.
With these two monumental projects—Gâra Djebilet and Béled El-Hedba—Algeria is sketching the outlines of an entirely new economy, one no longer anchored in the fluctuations of oil markets but built upon solid, abundant, and sustainable resources. For the first time in decades, Algeria is poised to generate between 15 and 20 billion dollars annually in hard currency from outside the hydrocarbons sector. The country now possesses a genuine blueprint for loosening its historical dependence on oil revenues and steering its economy toward a stable and productive foundation protected from global market volatility.
Yet the most striking element—and the one that astonishes observers—is that all of this is being achieved with zero foreign debt. Algeria, which firmly rejected the International Monetary Fund’s prescriptions in the 1990s and insisted on preserving its financial sovereignty, is now proving its ability to construct a new economic model from its own resources alone: no subordination, no humiliating loans, no externally imposed conditions. It is an unprecedented economic experience in the Arab world and across the African continent, reflecting the maturity of a state that calibrates its compass with precision and understands that economic independence is the cornerstone of political sovereignty.
What is unfolding today in Algeria is not a mere collection of megaprojects; it is a historic transformation. It is a qualitative leap shifting the country from an era long tied to oil prices toward a new phase rooted in real production, transformative industry, and modern, rational exploitation of natural wealth. Algeria’s project today is not constructed on slogans but on railways crossing the desert sands, mines awakening after decades of stillness, and expanding industries in steel, fertilizers, mechanics, and technology.
This is Algeria in its new form: a nation forging its own future, fully aware that the age of oil dominance has faded, giving way to the age of food and minerals. By doing so, the Sahara transforms from a seemingly silent geographic expanse into a strategic launchpad for an ascending economic power.
Algeria has indeed entered a phase of economic re-foundation. What is happening today is not a continuation of the past but the beginning of an entirely new Algerian century.
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