The US recently offered technical assistance to promote transparency at the Libyan Central Bank (LCB) under the institution's ...

CITIC/CRCC (China) has signed an agreement with Algeria's public works ministry to build a training center for middle-management staff in the construction sector.

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

The Tunisian government's deepening financial crisis has not entirely put the brakes on the armed forces' spending spree. According to sources in Tunis, the French missile manufacturer MBDA and ...

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 ...

For several years, the BEAC has been trying to get these funds, estimated to amount to several hundred million dollars, into its accounts, seeing them as potential foreign exchange reserves. The ...

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 ...

In charge of king Hassan II's personal security since 1971, Mohamed Mediouri has just been fired by Mohamed VI. Among other things, the security chief was the direct boss of Hicham Mandari, the former ...

Andry Rajoelina, who has been president of Madagascar's High Transitional Authority since March 2009, is Africa's youngest head of state. The controversial circumstances of his accession to high ...

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 ...

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, ...