VOL. XXXIII

NO. 7

20-NOVEMBER-1989

Algeria

Bouhafs Appointed General Manager of Sonatrach

Mr. Abdelhak Bouhafs was last week appointed General Manager of Sonatrach,Algeria's national oil company. The post has been held since August 1988 by Mr.Sadek Boussena, the Mining Minister, who was appointed to the cabinet post inNovember 1988.

Mr. Bouhafs was educated in Algeria and France and holds degrees inmathematics and energy economics. From 1974 to 1980, he was Deputy GeneralManager of Sonatrach in...