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Algeria has submitted an official application to join the emerging-market bloc of BRICS, which groups Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, media reports said on Monday, citing Leila Zaruki, the Algerian Foreign Ministry special envoy for international partnership.
Algeria is Africa’s biggest gas exporter and reportedly supplies about 11 percent of the natural gas consumed in Europe. As the global…
