Elected a member of parliament five months ago, Abdelkrim Ghrieb has given up his seat. On post in Bamako as Algeria’s envoy to Mali, Ghrieb has decided to remain in that job. Ghrieb is the leading ...

At the end of September, China First Highway Engineering Co (CFHEC) won the competitive tender launched by Douala mayor Roger Mbassa Ndine for the construction of the Wouri River embankment road. The ...

The son of an Algerian diplomat, Anouar El Mili, is reportedly being sought by the Algerian and American authorities for money-laundering. El Mili has already been sentenced in absentia to 10 years in ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

An inquiry was set up immediately by Mobil Producing Nigeria and Bouygues Offshore (BOS) to determine the causes of a blast and fire that killed six workers and left between two and four missing (all ...

The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...

The regularity with which Arab donors have been awarding the projects that they are financing to the Egyptian firm The Arab Contractors has brought this company to the fore and has enabled the Uganda ...

The Office Interprofessionnel du Lait et des Produits Laitiers (ONIL) could beat its own record for powdered milk imports. The volume of its purchases between January and September increased by 12% ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

MAROCINVEST FINANCE GROUP has just started up business as a new investment consultant. It has a registered venture/development capital of $20 million. Its shareholders include the World Bank affiliate ...

The dynamic leader of the Genuine Leather Craft Plc company was elected chairman of the Ethiopian Private Industrialist Association (EPIA) on November 20. Teshome Kebede had already been serving in ...

A Tunisian consultant, Ridha Mahjoub, has just set up Star Export to advise companies seeking to set up shop in Algeria and Libya. Star Export is to open offices in both countries. Mahjoub’s partner ...