Business & Economy Bound

By Ismail Bellaouali: A global fertiliser supply shock deepened by Russia's Ukraine invasion has brought boom times for the North African phosphate superpower Morocco and earned the kingdom new diplomatic capital. Rabat is using the leverage especially in the...

In a rare public show of protest in Egypt, "thousands of lawyers" staged a demonstration at their union in central Cairo Monday, prominent lawyer Tarek al-Awady said. After a smaller protest was held Thursday, lawyers assembled again in droves Monday to protest a new...

A French judge on Wednesday allowed European aerospace firm Airbus to pay 15.9 million euros ($16.4 million) to avoid a corruption probe into aircraft deals in Libya and Kazakhstan between 2006 and 2011. Prosecutors from France's national financial crime unit (PNF),...

By Boureima Hama with Pierre Donadieu in Abidjan Prospects for the world's nuclear industry have been boosted by the war in Ukraine and mounting hostility towards climate-wrecking fossil fuels -- but Niger, one of the world's biggest sources of uranium, has yet to...