Algeria has been rapidly drawing down its foreign currency reserves: from $194bn at the start of July 2014, just before oil prices started to slide, to $143bn at the end of 2015 and $137bn at the end of May (see chart).
Speaking on 15 June, Prime Minister ‘Abd al-Malik Sillal said that he expected that the country’s forex reserves would fall further to around $116bn be the end of 2016 (see chart). (CONTINUED - 441 WORDS)
