Elected a member of parliament five months ago, Abdelkrim Ghrieb has given up his seat. On post in Bamako as Algeria’s envoy to Mali, Ghrieb has decided to remain in that job. Ghrieb is the leading ...

One of the protagonists in the affair of fake Bahrein dinars, Hicham Mandari has been behind bars at the Sante prison in Paris since last September on charges of trying to extort funds from the ...

The Commander of the 2,100 French troops in Somali deployed in Operation Oryx, is a veteran of Africa. Born in 1938 in Lyons, he joined the armed forces at the age of twenty, as an artillery soldier ...

The Air Force High Command has called on Kalandor to equip its new T-129 attack helicopters with Turkish weapons systems.

Belgian diplomat Alphonse Creusen, who recently sat on Belgium’s UNESCO committee, has been named the country’s ambassador to Libya. Creusen’s promotion came as Brussels also appointed new envoys to ...

The new trade counsellor at the French embassy in Tripoli, Jean-Louis Fontenille, won't suffer cultural shock in the byzantime atmosphere in Tripoli. He has just spent four years in Damascus and had ...

After waiting since last July, the Algerian government has finally named Amine Kherbi rather than Mohamed Salah Dembri as Algeria's ambassador to Washington. The Bush administration reportedly ...

The chairman of Compagnie Minière de Touissit was handed down an 827 million dirhams (€77m) fine and six-month suspended ...

Nearly two years after winning the tender for the Makelele gas block in Lake Kivu, US company Symbion Power has still not ...

The regularity with which Arab donors have been awarding the projects that they are financing to the Egyptian firm The Arab Contractors has brought this company to the fore and has enabled the Uganda ...

Abdul-Rahman Al Ageli, coordinator for security questions on the staff of former Libyan prime minister and defence minister Abdallah al-Thani is due to attend a lunch thrown by the Franco-Libyan ...