Tebboune: Algeria Commits to Providing 2,500 Scholarships for African Students
On Tuesday in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune reaffirmed Algeria’s commitment to offering an annual total of 2,500 scholarships to African students—specifically, 2,000 for higher education and 500 for vocational training. He also announced plans to establish a dedicated educational bank for Africa.
Speaking at the Continental Conference on Education, Youth, and Employability held in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the President pointed out that there are nearly 6,000 African students currently studying in Algeria, equivalent to 6,000 scholarships. He reiterated Algeria’s dedication to providing 2,000 higher education scholarships and 500 vocational training scholarships each year to African students.
“Guided by a genuine spirit of foreign policy centered on African solidarity,” President Tebboune stated that Algeria “has spared no effort in contributing to the development of education, teaching, and training across the continent, welcoming students from various brotherly African nations into its universities, training institutes, and learning centers.”
He expressed pride in the educational and training opportunities offered by Algeria since its independence, benefiting “65,000 young African students in various fields,” and noted that the country is actively working on constructing and upgrading schools in several African nations.
President Tebboune emphasized Algeria’s commitment to “increasing these numbers” and assured that, through the Algerian international coopération agency for solidarity and dévelopment (AACI), the government will “establish a bank dedicated to education based on the needs of our African brothers.”
“This initiative reflects our contribution to collective efforts aimed at enhancing educational systems on our continent and demonstrates our steadfast desire to strengthen cooperation and continental solidarity, while also establishing communication bridges in its human dimension through student exchanges among African peoples,” the President affirmed.
