Algeria-starting to work for 3 years, safety

[nick_z]

Dear all,


I will start in april 2006 to work for 3 years in Algeria, a few km away from Medea.
I have some questions:
1. how is the safety in the region around Medea / Blida ?
2. I'm married. Would you bring your wife with you ?
3. I'm german, living in Switzerland. Is there any possibility to bring your own car into the country ? The reasom: mobility, and... I have two dogs too. Or should be the mobility (as the safety too)guaranteed by the "employer"? :-) :-)

Thanks a lot,
Nicholas

[FORTUNATO]

Originally posted by nick_z
Dear all,


I will start in april 2006 to work for 3 years in Algeria, a few km away from Medea.
I have some questions:
1. how is the safety in the region around Medea / Blida ?
2. I'm married. Would you bring your wife with you ?
3. I'm german, living in Switzerland. Is there any possibility to bring your own car into the country ? The reasom: mobility, and... I have two dogs too. Or should be the mobility (as the safety too)guaranteed by the "employer"? :-) :-)

Thanks a lot,
Nicholas

Saha Nicholas

You are welcome to algeria, but I think you better come alone (without family and dogs) for the first year, and than see by yourself, Medea is not Blida, if Blida than it should be okay, but Medea I dont know, I know that some Germens (I think Semens/Sonatrach??) did start building an Electric ditribution system there, and they are mostly at site personel.

Car? Yes you can bring your car but your company should atatst that it is used for the job, or they should give a bond equal to the taxe value, the registration (Blue plate)and deregistration are charged diffrently

Hope this help you

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[nick_z]

Dear Fortunato,

thanks for the very quick reply. It is in Berrouaghia and it is Siemens.

Can you tell me something about Berrouaghia ? Or somebody else in this forum? I know just a few thing about it. And beleve me: it is so hard to get informations.
I'm in a very lucky situation, to have an acquaintance, he is an algerian, living in Germany. I (we) learned a lot from him about Algeria.He is glad too, us to help there: all his family is living in Al Jaza'ir (I've learned something :-)). But I want some other informations too.
I'm not afraid to work there, I just want to be informed, to be able to judge the "risk". And this not for me, but for my family.
During my university time (it was in Romania, end of the 70th), I had a lot of colleagues coming from Algeria and other Maghreb countries, and... not just from there. I could learn a lot about all this countrys and I learned (later on, through my jobs all over the world too): be open for everything, than everywhere are just people like me and ... you. For me, everybody is just a human being, no matter if black, yellow, white or different religion.
"Meet everyone with the necessary respect".

Thanks again, Nicholas

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Originally posted by nick_z
Dear Fortunato,

thanks for the very quick reply. It is in Berrouaghia and it is Siemens.

Can you tell me something about Berrouaghia ? Or somebody else in this forum? I know just a few thing about it. And beleve me: it is so hard to get informations.
I'm in a very lucky situation, to have an acquaintance, he is an algerian, living in Germany. I (we) learned a lot from him about Algeria.He is glad too, us to help there: all his family is living in Al Jaza'ir (I've learned something :-)). But I want some other informations too.
I'm not afraid to work there, I just want to be informed, to be able to judge the "risk". And this not for me, but for my family.
During my university time (it was in Romania, end of the 70th), I had a lot of colleagues coming from Algeria and other Maghreb countries, and... not just from there. I could learn a lot about all this countrys and I learned (later on, through my jobs all over the world too): be open for everything, than everywhere are just people like me and ... you. For me, everybody is just a human being, no matter if black, yellow, white or different religion.
"Meet everyone with the necessary respect".

Thanks again, Nicholas

Saha Nicholas
Sorry I have no information at all about Berouaguia; hope somebody esle in this forums can help you, I just know that Siemens and many international companies do build many projects in Algeria and did not suffer any safety problem; the same apply for you, I guess if you have been in many other countries you should know (aquire experience) that you must be carefull anywhere in the world. Algeria is not any exeption.

One thing you can do; of course is talking to both algerian ambassy in Germany, and to the German consulate in Algeria, you should also talk to your colleagues who have been in Algeria before

Wishes you a good luck

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