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 ...

Katanga, Kipushi Corp still has to build a new exit road for its zinc production. But the planned route encroaches on a ...

On 9 September, Bugesera Airport Co (BAC), which is owned by state-owned Qatar Airways and by the Rwandan government, officially awarded the contract for the new Bugesera airport, located 50km south ...

TEMASOL, a joint venture between Total Maroc and Electricite de France, has won a contract to supply electricity to 37,000 rural households in Morocco. The EUR21.2 million project is being financed by ...

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 ...

A 56-year-old civil servant holding a degree in economic sciences and serving as wali (prefect) of Djelfa up to now, Addou Mohamed Kebir, has been named head of the wilaya of Algiers. Related by ...

The Cameroonian head of state has instructed his presidential guard to look into a vast fraud case, in which the names of high ranking military officers and members of the presidential security ...

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 ...

With no consensus among its members, it is the head of state Joaquim Chissano who has named Jamisse Taimo chairman of Comissao Nacional de Eleiçoes charged with organizing the general election in ...