Four Chinese telecoms engineers – three men and a woman – sip orange juice in a café on an Algiers' square, opposite a statue of the 19th-century nationalist leader Emir Abdelkader.
Three are children of farmers, back in China, but the most senior, 25-year-old Yuan Hua, is son of an engineer. Slightly homesick, they say the locals are welcoming but they wish public transport was more user-friendly for visitors with little Arabic or French.
Employed by Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies, they are developing mobile phone networks both for the former state monopoly, Algerie Telecom, and its private-sector rival, Djezzy, owned by Egypt's Orascom. They are glad for the work, even if expatriate salaries are not as good as they once were.
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