Development works for the Mbalam-Nabeba cross-border iron ore mining project may soon commence. An official ceremony to mark the handover of equipment required to launch operations is due to be held ...

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 ...

His association with TGV has boosted the activities of the Sodiat group he set up in May 1990 and which today counts a dozen or so companies in different fields of activity. In return, Ravatomanga ...

The Zambian mining sector has been in a state of high tension since populist Michael Sata became the country's president at the end of September 2011. During his election campaign, Sata promised to ...

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

When he came to power on December 21 2010, President Alpha Conde promised a "new era". Two years on, it has become clear that management of the country's mineral resources is more than ever under his ...

Just as international companies are preparing to invest colossal sums of money in gas reserves in the province of Cabo Delgado, a handful of retired generals, who come from this northern region and ...

Yassir Zenagui joined Mohammed VI's private office in 2011 after two years as Minister of Tourism. A former City trader, Zenagui, who is 46 and has French and Moroccan nationality, has since ...