Air Arabia sees expansion in Morocco Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa largest low cost carrier (LCC) announced today its flights details between new Moroccan airports and European cities for the winter season. In addition to its primary base at Mohamed V International Airport in Casablanca, starting end of October, 2010, the airline will also operate from Nador, Fez, Tangier and Oujda airports with a frequency of sixteen flights per week between the five Moroccan cities towards Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Paris and Montpellier. Italy's Saipem wins $500 million worth of onshore contracts Italian oilfield engineering group Saipem has been awarded new onshore contracts with a total value of some $500 million, the company said Monday. In Algeria, state-owned oil company Sonatrach awarded Saipem a contract for an oil-gas separation plant and a gathering system and the Hassi Messaoud complex, 900 km southeast of Algiers. Saipem, which is 43% owned by oil and gas major Eni, said the project will allow Sonatrach to complete the LPG processing facility that it is currently building in Hassi Messaoud. Tunisia to boost co-operation with Arab Tourism Organization On Saturday, Mr. Slim Tlatli Minister of Tourism conferred in Tunis with the Chairman of the Arab Tourism Organization (ATO) Bandar Fahad el Fehaid. The ATO Chairman and the delegation accompanying him took cognizance of the different prospects for tourist investment in Tunisia and examined the diversification and wealth of the Tunisian tourist product which includes in addition to seaside tourism, Saharan, cultural, health and golf tourism. Canadian suspected of ‘industrial espionage' held in Libya: report A Canadian suspected of industrial espionage on behalf of the United States has been prevented from leaving Libya for security reasons, the newspaper Oea reported on Monday. It said Douglas Oriali, who also has Australian and Irish citizenship, is suspected of working with U.S. intelligence “to gather information aiming to ensure the failure of a drilling project off the Libyan coast by Britain's BP.” Sudan: Activists Call for World Leaders to Avert War On Monday, thousands of activists are gathering at events in 14 countries in a global day of action coordinated by the Sudan365 Campaign, calling on world leaders to take urgent steps to prevent a collapse in diplomacy in Sudan that could lead to deadly conflict in 2011. Campaigners worry that if handled poorly, the January 2011 referendum for southern independence could have a devastating impact on millions of civilians and regional security. Analysts expect Southern Sudan to vote for independence. BM
