Angola’s President Visits Algeria’s Fouka 2 Desalination Plant During State Visit
The President of the People’s Republic of Angola, João Lourenço, visited Tuesday the Fouka 2 seawater desalination plant in Tipaza as part of the State visit to Algeria he began on Monday.
The visit to the strategic facility, completed entirely through Algerian expertise and national companies, took place in the presence of Minister of State and Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energies Mohamed Arkab, Minister of Water Resources Lounes Bouzegza, CEO of Sonatrach Noureddine Daoudi, and Governor of Tipaza Mohamed Amine Benchaoulia.
During a tour of the plant’s control room, President Lourenço received detailed explanations on the facility’s operating system, seawater desalination process and production capacity estimated at 300,000 cubic meters per day. The plant was inaugurated in February 2025 by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Speaking on the occasion, Sonatrach CEO Noureddine Daoudi highlighted Algeria’s major progress in strengthening water security, stressing that the country has become Africa’s leading producer of desalinated water, the second largest in the Arab world and the Mediterranean region.
He added that Algeria aims to increase its desalination production capacity from 3.7 million cubic meters per day currently to 5.6 million cubic meters per day by 2030.
Daoudi also revealed that Algeria launched this year a new national program for the construction of six additional seawater desalination plants along the country’s coastline, with a combined future production capacity of 1.8 million cubic meters per day.
The Fouka 2 plant is part of a complementary national desalination program that includes four other facilities with the same production capacity located in El Tarf (Koudiet Draouche), Boumerdès (Cap Djinet), Oran (Ras El-Abyad) and Béjaïa (Tighremt-Toudja). Together, the five plants provide a total production capacity of 1.5 million cubic meters per day to support Algeria’s water security strategy and ensure drinking water supplies through national expertise and advanced technologies.
