Algeria: School items' price hikes on the eve of new academic year

The price of school items has witnessed a steep hike on the Algerian market a few days before the kick off of the new academic year slated for September 9th for all primary, intermediate and high schools across the national territory.

• The price of school items has witnessed a steep hike on the Algerian market a few days before the kick off of the new academic year slated for September 9^th for all primary, intermediate and high schools across the national territory.
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• With all the whopping expenses made by most Algerian households during the holy month of fasting of Ramadhan which wound up about 10 days ago and those made for the purchase of brand-new clothes for their children on the occasion of Aid El Fitr feast, parents are now at a loss in the face of the staggering cost of the various school items needed by their offsprings for the new academic year.

• Distributors of school furniture have meanwhile warned the pupils’ parents to avoid buying certain low-down school items now rife on the informal market because of their toxic character saying they could be harmful to their children’s health under manipulation.

• According to a price-list drawn up the bona-fide Techno book-stores, all the necessary school items package needed by the pupils of all cycles taken together ranges between 2.500 dinars and 5.000 dinars but the high-grade quality of the items is fully guaranteed, according to Mohamed Said, one of the managers of the Techno chain libraries.