Until this incident, Martin UAV was considered a strong candidate, especially since it had the backing of the US embassy in Tunis - Washington is a major financer and supplier of equipment to the ...

The facts date back to the early 2000s when Ivory Coast was in the throes of a political and military crisis. Bictogo contracted a loan in several tranches of just under €4m from the CEO of Soeximex, ...

CITIC/CRCC (China) has signed an agreement with Algeria's public works ministry to build a training center for middle-management staff in the construction sector.

JOANNOU & PARASKEVAIDES J&P OVERSEAS (Greece) has won a contract to build a 120 km-long gas pipeline between Melitah and Tripoli.

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 ...

NASCO, Libya's National Supply Corporation, no longer holds a monopoly on wheat sales in Libya. The government has deregulated the sector and done away with subsidized prices. As a result, ...

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 ...

Located 550 km south-west of Addis Ababa in the regional state of Oromia, the Yayu coal field was discovered in 1996 by the Ethiopian Institute for Geological Surveys (EIGS). Late last year, four ...

LAICO (Libyan Arab Investment Co) could sell off part of its business to private investors. Its deputy managing director, Meftah Kikli, said during a meeting on Libya organized by Ubifrance (see P. 3) ...

SMTI (Societe Meditrraneenne de Transport International), which specializes in industrial logistics and transportation, is beefing up its business. Its boss, Tunisia’s Mongi Trimeche, has just founded ...

A first CH-4 combat drone system has been delivered to the DRC by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC). The batch, which includes three drones in addition to a ground station, is ...

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, ...