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Oil at $100 Rattles Egypt While Boosting Algeria

There are hopes the oil-price surge will relieve Algeria’s strained public finances.
A fuel station in Cairo, Egypt, on March 11.Photographer: Islam Safwat/Bloomberg

Welcome to Next Africa, a daily newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. Sign up here to have it delivered to your email. In today’s edition, we look at how the Iran war has impacted North African nations, as well as:

They’re far from the missiles striking the Gulf, but North Africa’s Arab-majority states aren’t escaping the effects of an Iran war that’s raging for a third week.