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Egypt Bets on Upstream Investment to Reverse Gas Production Decline
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Business: As Relations With France Strain, Algeria Broadens Its Grain Suppliers
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Libya: Despite war, city of Tripoli to have its bus service for first time in three decades
Algeria: Regime loses control of the economy, construction sector collapses
French version here-ย By Arezki Daoud - 10 October 2019: While the Algerian government is working to pass its 2020...
Egypt: Tension escalates with Ethiopia over Nile dam
Cairo, Oct 6, 2019 - Egypt has urged international mediation over what it called "deadlock" in talks in Sudan over a...
Egypt: Fear of more unrest prompts Sisi government to lower fuel prices
Cairo, Oct 4, 2019 - Egypt lowered fuel prices on Friday, the oil ministry said, following several rounds of price...
Sahel: Protests over bad roads continue in Mali
Bamako, Sept 11, 2019 (By Maฤซmouna Moro) - Like many of his fellow Malians, Ousmaneย Maiga used to drive regularly...
Egypt: Actor Mohamed Aly flees to Spain, accuses Sisi and military of corruption
Cairo, Sept 9, 2019 - Videos posted online by an Egyptian construction contractor accusing President Abdel Fattah...
Thousands of Aigle Azur passengers stranded as Air France makes offer to acquire collapsed airline
Sept 9, 2019 - French flag carrier Air France on Monday offered to snap up its much smaller rival Aigle Azur after the...
Sahel: Unrest in Mali over dismal road conditions
Kati, Mali, Aug 27, 2019 (AFP) - More than 1,000 trucks loaded with merchandise were blocked Tuesday at the entrance...
Egypt: One third of Egyptians live with less than $1.4 per day
Cairo, July 30, 2019 - Nearly a third of Egyptians live below the poverty line, up from 27.8 percent in 2015, Egypt's...
Libya: Oil production from Sharara back after sabotage on pipeline
Tripoli, July 22, 2019 - Libya announced the resumption of production Monday at its largest oil field and the loading...
Algeria: Arrest of former industry minister Youcef Yousfi paves way for probes on major corruption cases in energy sector
Commentary by Arezki Daoud:ย Algeria has been plagued by widespread corruption ever since Bouteflika became president...
Egypt: Consumers in Egypt confronted with higher fuel prices
Egypt: General Sisi attacks businesses, accuses them of plotting against him
Cairo, June 25, 2019 - Egyptian authorities raided 19 businesses Tuesday accused of funding a plot to overthrow the...
Libya: Parliamentary speaker calls for the shutdown of national oil production
Libya's National Oil Company has warned that any bid to tamper with the sector could escalate unrest in the...
Algeria: Businessman Hassen Arbaoui detained in corruption probe
Algeria: Sovac caught in a complex web of corruption
An Algerian public prosecutor has officially communicated the facts in the corruption case related to the SOVAC...
Algeria: Business tycoon Ali Heddad jailed six months over illegal passport possession
Algiers, June 17, 2019 - Algeria's top businessman Ali Haddad, a key supporter of ousted president Abdelaziz...
Libya: NOC warns of possible collapse of oil production amid intensifying civil war
Libya’s power sector: collateral damage of the civil war
France’s Total to get Anadarko Africa’s assets: What are the challenges ahead?
The takeover of Anadarko by Occidental paves the way for France's Total to acquire Anadarko assets and projects in...
Algeria: Unemployment riots in oil-rich Adrar
Algiers, May 15, 2019 - At least 24 police officers have been wounded in clashes with protesters rallying against...
Tunisia: Government faces domestic pressure as it negotiates free-trade deal with EU
Egypt: New app tests streaming business in Egypt, challenges old media
Moroccan firms increase trade and investment focus on Africa ($)
Energy: Total wants to acquire Anadarkoโs Algerian assets ($)
Libya: Clashes at Sherrara oil field in Murzuk
Tripoli, April 29, 2019 - Fighting took place overnight at Libya's main oil field, the National Oil Company said on...
Algeria/Brief: CEO of Sonatrach fired
Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, the Chief Executive of Sonatrach has just been fired. Interim president of the Algerian...
Algeria: Private business sector swept away by protest movement, several businessmen under arrest
Algeria resurrecting major graft probes as police raid Sonatrach and Public Works ministry and ban hundreds from leaving the country
Libyaโs Escalating Civil War: The Oil Dimension
By Rauf Mammadov* and Theodore Karasik** - 10 April 2019: Libyaโs civil war intensified this month after General...
Algeria: Expect unprecedented purge of the Bouteflika clan, as Algerians seeks to uproot the “deep state”
Algeria: Bouteflika backer and businessman Ali Haddad arrested
Algiers, March 31, 2019 - Ali Haddad, one of Algeria's top businessmen and a backer of ailing President Abdelaziz...
Algeria: Central Bank seeks to appease growing public fear over capital flight as political crisis persists
There has been growing public fear over regime operatives moving money from Algeria to foreign banks. Rumors have been...
Algeria: Media campaign against financial backers of Bouteflika: the Kouninef brothers
The North Africa Journal - 26 March 2019: The Kouninef brothers have been the focal point of several influential...
Algeria: Petroleum sector facing uncertainty as political crisis escalates
By Arezki Daoud - 21 March 2019: Echoing the positions of many of the foreign companies operating in Algeria, peaking...
Algeria: Exxon-Sonatrach talks on gas project stall as political crisis in Algeria deepens and fate of Sonatrach CEO at risk
Libya: NOC takes control of al-Sharara oil field, set to resume production
Tripoli, March 4, 2019 - One of Libya's most important oil fields is set to reopen nearly three months after it was...
Sahel: Growing concern over impact of climate change on the Sahel
Niamey, Feb 25, 2019 - Leaders of 17 countries on the rim of the Sahel began talks on Monday on a nearly $400-billion...
European Parliamant adopts EU-Morocco fishing agreement, angering Polisario Front
Strasbourg, France, Feb 12, 2019 (AFP) - The European Parliament on Tuesday adopted a new fishing agreement with...
Libya: Haftar forces enter al-Sharara oil fiel
Libya, Feb 6, 2019 (AFP) - A force led by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar, engaged in an offensive in...