Ten Days That Shattered the Silence Around Algeria’s Cost-of-Living Crisis
On 20 September 2026, the Trade Union Confederation of Productive Forces (COSYFOP) published its study on the collapse of purchasing power and the real cost of living in Algeria. Within just ten days, its figures had moved beyond the confines of a trade union report, appearing on international trade union network websites and in the coverage of independent journalists. At the same time, local newspapers were publishing similar prices recorded by their own reporters in markets, before the Minister of the Interior himself acknowledged […]