Italian businessman Luciano Fragola who runs the Eldo group has dropped his project for an industrial zone specializing in clothing textiles, " Carthage Fashion City, " that was to have opened in the ...

The trade department at the French embassy in Nouakchott recently published a survey on the big family groups that corner most of Mauritania's economy. Top dog is the MAOA group (owned by Mohamed ...

Discussions about combating irregular migration are continuing between Abuja and London. Having visited the British capital last month, the Nigerian Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo could host his ...

On 14 December in Dubai, Oriental Energy Resources (OER) boss Muhammadu Indimi will unveil his company's newest gizmo: an oil and gas floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit costing ...

Ethiopia's former minister of transport and telecommunications, who gave up his post several years ago to become a UNICEF deputy director of emergency operations, has returned to public service with ...

Marc Deballon is to step down as the head of the economic service of the French embassy in Libya in mid-February. Guilhem Roger, his deputy, will fill in for him until his permanent replacement is ...

Representing UNDP in Senegal since 1999, Ahmed Rhazoui, a Moroccan born in Settat, has just been named head of the U.N. ?West Africa? bureau based in Dakar. Rhazaoui, an economist by training who ...

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 ...

Cameroon's national oil firm Société nationale des hydrocarbures (SNH) is anxiously seeking solutions to revive the country's morose oil industry, plagued by unrest in the anglophone and potentially ...

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 ...

According to well-informed sources, the Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, who has recently managed not only to end the long isolation of his country but also to establish it as a key regional player, ...

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 ...