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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Tunisian consultant, Ridha Mahjoub, has just set up Star Export to advise companies seeking to set up shop in Algeria and Libya. Star Export is to open offices in both countries. Mahjoub’s partner ...

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 ...