Rentierstaat und Fußballkrawall

Vor fast vier Wochen habe ich auf Ibn Kafkas Synopse zu den Krawallen im Zusammenhang zwischen den beiden entscheidenden WM-Qualifikationsspielen zwischen Ägypten und Algerien hingewiesen. Dort war von vielen Übergriffen auf die algerische Telekommunikationsfirma Djezzy die Rede, einer Tochter der ägyptischen Orascom. Zufall?

Der Nordafrika Blog “Aqoul” berichtet, dass die algerische staatliche Ölgesellschaft und ein algerisches Privatunternehmen zusammen mit Vivendi Djezzy übernehmen wollen. “alle” (”Maghreb Politics Review”) kommentiert:

Not that I feel much sympathy for Orascom’s owners, crooks as they undoubtedly are too, but it seems to me one more sign that the just-recently moderately promising outlook for Algeria is dimming fast. At this stage, Bouteflika appears to have more or less given up on liberalizing the economy, to leave the country on a positive trajectory. And I think that’s what he will be remembered for: unexpectedly and brilliantly centralizing power, partly through fortifying the rentier state, only to then miss the opportunity to use all that power to transform the country. Sooner or later, the old man will die, and there will be no one (?) there to catch the reins except the officers and their civilian props, all jostling for sole possession — and back we are to square one.

Und Djezzy wirbt mit Bildern der Nationalmanschaft…

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Tags: Algerien, Ägypten, Fußball, Gewalt, Rentierstaat, Telekommunikation, Wirtschaft

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