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Algeria's frosty business climate may thaw
ALGIERS: After a three-year campaign against one of its biggest foreign investors chilled Algeria's business climate, the country is sending out tentative signals that it may be ready for a thaw. A period of aggressive economic nationalism, (...)

17 - 04 - 2012
First president of independent Algeria dies
ALGIERS: Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president after the country became independent from France half a century ago, has died following an illness, state media reported on Wednesday. He was 96 and died at his family home in the Algerian (...)

11 - 04 - 2012
Libya bourse resumes trading after year closure
TRIPOLI: Libya's Stock Exchange resumed trading on Thursday after more than 12 months out of action, as the country gets back to business after last year's conflict ousted leader Moammar Qaddafi. Officials on the trading floor rang a bell then (...)

16 - 03 - 2012
Morocco king pardons jailed Islamist leaders
RABAT: Morocco's King Mohammed issued pardons to several leading Islamists who rights groups say were unfairly jailed, signaling a less hardline approach after moderate Islamists came to power in an election last year. Royal pardons are customary (...)

05 - 02 - 2012
Islamists to rule Tunisia; clashes in cradle of revolt
TUNIS: The leader of the Islamist party which won Tunisia's first free election appealed for calm in the town where the "Arab Spring" began, accusing forces linked to the ousted president of fanning violence there. Party officials said coalition (...)

28 - 10 - 2011
Analysis: Tunisia shows democracy can work for Arab Islamists
TUNIS: Tunisia gave birth to the "Arab Spring" and now it is again showing the way in the Middle East by demonstrating that moderate Islamists can win an election without causing a crisis. But Arab countries who are wondering, along with the (...)

25 - 10 - 2011
Huge turnout in Tunisia's Arab Spring election
TUNIS: Tunisian voters poured into polling stations to vote on Sunday in their country's first free election, 10 months after a vegetable seller set fire to himself in an act of protest that started the Arab Spring uprisings. The leader of an (...)

23 - 10 - 2011
Libya rebels enter strategic town near Tripoli
ZAWIYAH: Libyan rebels hoisted their flag in the centre of this town near the capital on Sunday after the most dramatic advance in months cut off Muammar Gaddafi's capital from its main link to the outside world. The swift rebel advance on the (...)

14 - 08 - 2011
Algeria sees Orascom Tel unit valuation by end-May
ALGIERS: Consultants hired by Algeria to value Orascom Telecom's local mobile phone unit are scheduled to complete their work by the end of May, Algerian telecommunications minister Moussa Benhamadi told Reuters. Algeria's government has said it (...)

02 - 03 - 2011
Orascom seeks to solve Algeria row
ALGIERS: Egypt's Orascom Telecom may seek international arbitration to end a dispute with Algeria that is holding up its $6.6 billion plan to sell assets to Russia's Vimpelcom, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Uncertainty over Orascom (...)

09 - 11 - 2010
EU sees solar power imported from Sahara in 5 yrs
ALGIERS: Europe will import its first solar-generated electricity from North Africa within the next five years, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in an interview on Sunday. The European Union is backing projects to turn the (...)

21 - 06 - 2010
Algeria has several routes to buy Orascom unit, says Algerian TV
CAIRO: Algeria's government might consider buying Orascom Telecom's Algerian unit directly or purchasing it via another body, a minister said on Tuesday, complicating a sale to South Africa's MTN. Orascom has said it is in talks to sell some or (...)

04 - 05 - 2010
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