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

The European Investment Bank is to co-finance the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Kafr el-Sheik, in the north of the country. The project is expected to cost €23m.

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 ...

CITIBANK has just opened a second branch at Hassi Messaoud. Installed in Algiers, the American bank found it increasingly hard to work long-distance with its oil company customers based in the ...

Little information has filtered out from the British embassy in Algiers about the country's new ambassador. Graham Steward Hand, whose appointment hasn't yet been officially announced by the Foreign ...

The tender call for the installation of a second submarine cable link to Mauritania was launched in August and has attracted two foreign firms and one local company.

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, ...

A Fonds de Garantie Malgache S.A was just established by the main primary banks, thanks to the support of the Agence française de développement (AFD) and the Malagasy government. The new financial ...

The Seychelles is a country composed of 116 sparsely populated islands with a total population of 90,000 and an economy in which the only real drivers are tourism, commerce and the domiciliation of ...

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 ...

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 ...