The case of French hostages held by the branch of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) headed by Algeria's Abu Zeid has turned into a nightmare for Paris. Not only has France had to urgently repatriate the leading negotiator for [.
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Officially, the projected high speed train line between Tangiers and Casablanca that’s set to cost €2 billion won’t punch a [...]
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The new UK Algeria Business Council (UKABC) could hardly have hoped for a better endorsement. Set up in 2010, it [...]
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In the past the Tunisian employers federation UTICA (Union Tunisienne de l'Industrie, du Commerce et de Artisanat) wasn't all that [...]
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Sakher El Materi’s ghost seems to be haunting Tunisia. Maghreb Confidential understands that the country’s first Islamic insurance group, Zitouna [...]
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The Maltese branch of the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co. (LAFICO) doesn't appear to have suffered from efforts to rid [...]
The big French transportation engineering concern Egis is zeroing in on the Libyan market. At the behest of the treasury [...]
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French freemasons have set up a lodge in memory of Pierre Marziali, the boss of the private military company Secopex [...]
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In its debut on the world anti-terrorism stage, a Moroccan delegation attended the first meeting of the "Sahel" group (co-chaired [...]
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Openly challenged by Berbers, who are furious about being excluded from his government, and by certain regions in the east [...]
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Matthew Epperly has been retained to burnish the image of [...]
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Ali Issaoui, who was previously in charge of foreign affairs [...]
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Edouard Guillaud, the French armed forces chief of staff, was [...]
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AFD (Agence Francaise de Developpement) is to finance an appraisal [...]
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LAFICO (Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company) has begun disposing of [...]
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Cargotec, a Finnish company, is going to deliver two new [...]
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Azadea, a Lebanese franchise operating mainly in the Gulf, plans [...]
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Result Group, a private German security outfit run by Walfried [...]
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Owned jointly by the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co (LAFICO) [...]
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Chief of Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) since October, Nuri [...]
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After several years of legal infighting, ABCI Investments (one of [...]
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Working in the family textile group TFCE founded by his [...]
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Ever since he uttered the term "sixth caliphate" in reference [...]
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A former Tuareg rebel in Mali who once negotiated with [...]
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A climate of wheeler-dealing and intrigue hangs over Libya at [...]
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