✍️ BY: Dr. Hana Saada
Algiers – December 2025 – Algeria is on the cusp of a momentous administrative transformation as the Ministry of the Interior, Local Authorities, and Transport has formally unveiled the draft law reorganizing the national territorial framework, paving the way for the elevation of eleven administrative districts to fully fledged provinces. The reform, if enacted, will expand the country’s territorial configuration to 69 wilayas and 1,541 communes, marking one of the most significant structural overhauls since independence.
The announcement was delivered on Thursday by Minister Saïd Sayoud before the Legal, Administrative and Human Rights Committee of the Council of the Nation. Sayoud clarified that the bill, which amends and supplements Law 84-09 governing territorial organization, seeks to bring Algeria’s administrative infrastructure in line with demographic and socioeconomic shifts, enhancing local governance capacity and accelerating territorial development.
According to the minister, the initiative is a direct implementation of repeated directives issued by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who has emphasized the imperative of adapting Algeria’s territorial architecture to contemporary realities. The reform is framed as a strategic endeavor to empower local authorities, improve service delivery, stimulate investment, and enhance quality of life — particularly in the High Plateaus and southern regions, where disparities in services and infrastructure remain acute.
The Council of Ministers, in its session of November 16, 2025, approved the promotion of eleven administrative districts to provincial status. These include: Aflou, Barika, Ksar Chellala, Messaad, Aïn Oussara, Bou Saâda, El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh, El Kantara, Bir El Ater, Ksar El Boukhari and El Aricha. Sayoud underscored that the measure is not a mere numerical expansion of provinces but an institutional response to citizen demands for quality public services, reduced bureaucratic burdens, and more equitable development opportunities.
The minister affirmed that the new administrative status will accelerate economic development, enabling large-scale, wealth-generating investment projects, valorizing territorial potential, and stimulating job creation. The reform thus represents an attempt to reconcile administrative modernization with socio-economic imperatives.
In quantitative terms, the new provinces span an area of 100,000 km², representing 43% of the surface of their parent provinces, and are home to more than 2.5 million inhabitants, or 25% of their combined population. Collectively, they incorporate 40 districts (daïras) and 108 communes, figures that Sayoud cited as evidence of the substantial demographic and administrative weight of these territories and the need to deepen decentralization as a mechanism for improved public service delivery and balanced development.
A one-year transitional period, extending until December 31, 2026, has been established to allow for the gradual operationalization of the new provinces. During this phase, the authorities of the parent provinces will retain full administrative prerogatives and responsibilities over the organizational and service structures of the newly created provinces.
In practical terms, governors (walis) of the parent provinces will continue executing the preliminary budgets, ensuring institutional continuity and preventing disruptions. Full administrative autonomy for the new provinces is expected to take effect on January 1, 2027, once conditions for functional governance are in place.
Following promulgation and publication of the law, the ministry will initiate a major administrative deployment, including the appointment of walis, secretaries-general, and executive directors, alongside regulatory measures to organize legislative and local elections and ensure the deployment of security and financial services.
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