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

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 ...

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 ...

MAROCINVEST FINANCE GROUP has just started up business as a new investment consultant. It has a registered venture/development capital of $20 million. Its shareholders include the World Bank affiliate ...

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 ...

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 ...

With his Franco-Malagasy nationality, his Karana Indian origins, his Italian wife and Indian overseas citizenship, Ylias Akbaraly is a businessman with an international outlook. He was trained by his ...

Theoretically a consultative body, the NSC has become the president's direct line to the police, whose activities are becoming increasingly political.

American businessman Evens Saint Clair, who registered his mining firm SWR International in Guinea in June, has filed the company's first permit application. In early January, SWR International ...

Jean-Louis Billon is a case apart in Ivory Coast. He is heir to the leading private sector group, SIFCA, which was founded by his father, Pierre Billon, but is reputed to scorn networking in a country ...