ODEP, the agency that manages Morocco's ports, has announced a 114 million DH program to upgrade the port of Safi with the acquisition of new cranes and a tug. The program is aimed at increasing the ...

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 ...

Expected for some months, the resignation of Mostapha Terrab as head of ARNT (Agence Nationale de Reglementation des Telecommunications) was confirmed by the palace. King Mohammed VI named Othmane ...

The United States recently offered technical assistance to promote transparency in the transactions of the Libyan Central Bank (LCB), support that Washington hopes will help it maintain its influence ...

JOANNOU & PARASKEVAIDES J&P OVERSEAS (Greece) has won a contract to build a 120 km-long gas pipeline between Melitah and Tripoli.

BROWN & ROOT-CONDOR, a joint engineering venture between Sonatrach and the U.S. firm Brown & Root, an affiliate of Halliburton, posted net earnings of 1.9 billion dinar in 2001. Headed by Abdelmoumen ...

A former police inspector who converted into real estate, Moussa Touati, wants to stand in the presidential election on April 8 on condition the Constitutional Council agrees. Touati made his debut in ...

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 ...

LAICO (Libyan Arab Investment Co) could sell off part of its business to private investors. Its deputy managing director, Meftah Kikli, said during a meeting on Libya organized by Ubifrance (see P. 3) ...

WANADOO to lower flag in Algeria? According to Africa Telecoms Intelligence’s sources in Algiers, the French Internet service provider Wanadoo, an affiliate of France Telecom, is on the verge of ...

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, ...