Demonstrators who have been clamouring for the fall of Ali Laârayedh’s government since the assassination of legislator Mohamed Brahmi on July 25 have found improbable but powerful allies: Tunisia’s international donors. According to our sources, the World Bank and International [.
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The editorial boss of the North African edition of Huffington Post, Tunis-based Kader Abderrahim, had a busy summer, travelling, as [...]
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The Moroccan railway system Office National des Chemins de Fer (ONCF) spies a major role for itself in shopping centers. [...]
Algeria's leading bus operator, Mahieddine Takout, has discreetly begun turning over the wheel to his sons. The businessman reputed to [...]
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The French shipping company CMA CGM lost little time in getting back to business in Tunisia two months after putting [...]
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A discreet private security company based in Champlin, Minnesota, DECO Inc. has hit the jackpot in Libya with a leg-up [...]
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The former British ambassador to Libya, Dominic Asquith, continues to see Libya as a business opportunity, to the point of [...]
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The president of UTICA, Wided Bouchamaoui, was forced by her peers at Tunisia’s biggest employers federation in mid-August to deny [...]
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Qatar is on the verge of both launching a satellite television channel, Al Naba TV, and a big-circulation newspaper that [...]
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The Moslem Brotherhood didn’t waste its time this summer. Thanks to Libya Shield, it tightened its grip on Tripoli. The [...]
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Abdelkader Amara, Morocco’s industry and trade minister, is due to [...]
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Jomaa Attiga, former vice president of Libya’s General National Congress [...]
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Joel Lascaux, cooperation and cultural action adviser at the French [...]
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Suez Environnement and Veolia, rival French water distribution giants, figure [...]
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Riva y Garcia, a Catalan financial firm headed by Albert [...]
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La Rose Blanche, Tunisia’s leading pasta and semolina firm (under [...]
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Visiomed, a French firm specializing in medical equipment for hospitals, [...]
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French national Charles Dufour has taken over as Thales’ man [...]
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The commercial prospects of railway stations (see P. 2) have [...]
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The nomination of Sebastien Bazin as boss of Accor on [...]
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Arriving directly from China, where he had been on post [...]
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France has regularly drawn down the staff at the French [...]
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Named on Aug. 6, Libya’s new defence minister, Abdullah Al [...]
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Barring new developments, Morocco's agriculture minister (and business tycoon) Aziz [...]
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