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, ...

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 ...

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 lot of changes at the top have occurred at the West African Portland Cement Company Plc (WAPCO) since it was taken over by Lafarge when the French group bought its parent company, Blue Circle ...

Renamed Hadin Kai, the military operation fighting terrorism in northern Nigeria welcomed its new intelligence director this week. Brigadier General Adebayo Adekola took up the post in Maiduguri, the ...

Also implicated in the investigation was Murad Hamaima, the chargé d'affaires in Paris, who was called as a witness in Tripoli. Yet in January he was given permission by the Presidential Council to ...

Consultancy EY (Ernst & Young) was awarded the contract for legal and financial studies for the reconversion of the port of Kenitra on March 22. Its task will be to find a new use for the city centre ...

The Mauritius council of ministers last week finally named Ghislaine Henry as the country's new ambassador to Madagascar, more than a year after having earmarked her for the post (ION 775). Ms. Henry ...

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 ...

With Sophie Ranaivo, the younger daughter of head of state Didier Ratsiraka, Justin Randrianasolo is one of the two administrators representing the largest shareholders of Banque de la Solidarité ...

Hydraulics specialist Envex is to rehabilitate the Les Dunes and Bousfer sea water desalination plants in Oran, two of the seven sited in the wilaya. The Oran water resources department awarded it the ...

EADS SOGERMA-TUNISIE, based at Monastir, aims to become a regional center for aircraft maintenance. Its local partner is Nouvelair, subsidiary of the hotel and transportation company owned by Aziz ...