A project to train local people in tanning and create goods from veg-tanned leather is being set up in Southern Algeria to try to use some of the skins that would otherwise be exported illegally, according to local press.

Funding agency ANGEM will offer financial support to 60 people who travel to national and international events to promote the project, and who will learn tanning and leather-making skills, and will then be eligible for loans for their new businesses.

Around 1,800 camel skins and 12,000 goat skins are produced monthly in slaughterhouses in Tamanrasset, but which are exported illegally to Niger for tanning and then re-imported to Algeria at exorbitant prices, said the reports.

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