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American hawks win voice in AmCham

By naming lobbyist Mark Cowan as senior adviser in the American Chamber of Commerce in Libya (AmChamLibya), its new president, [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.04.2013

Sedki Sobhi

Sedki Sobhi, chief of staff of Egypt’s army, was in [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 11.04.2013

Ali Mohamed Beherig

Ali Mohamed Beherig, Libya’s electricity and renewable energy minister, will [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 11.04.2013

Spotlight
Kaddafedam case defies swift resolution

Egypt quickly extradited Libya’s former ambassador to Egypt, Ali Marya, and financier Ibrahim Mansour to Tripoli on March 26 just seven days after they were arrested. But the case of Ahmed Kaddafedam, arrested on the same day, is far from [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.04.2013

Silicon Valley knocks on Tripoli’s door

The leaders of Libya’s cyber-security community will meet with the people who count in Silicon Valley between April 29 and [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.04.2013

Tug of war over VIP prisoners

An attack on the justice ministry in Tripoli on March 31 was the latest sign in a struggle between the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.04.2013

Jacques Myard

Jacques Myard, a legislator for the UMP party in the [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.04.2013

IFMH

IFMH (Institut Francais pour la Maitenance Medicale), headed by Claude [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.04.2013

Marland's spring offensive

British prime minister David Cameron's commerce envoy Johnathan Marland will [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.04.2013

Aujali lobbies against embargo

Still serving as Libya's ambassador to the United, Ali Aujali, [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2013

A gateway for gas groups

The sale of the German electricity producer RWE’s assets offers are rare opportunity for gas companies to break into the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.04.2013

EADS eyes new commercial targets

Maghreb Confidential understands the European aeronautics and defence group EADS has positioned its helicopter subsidiary Eurocopter on Libya's promising market [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.03.2013

Health minister draws up shopping list

Libyan health minister Nurideen Abdulhamid Dagman has given a green light to his department to start buying goods again. A [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.03.2013

Misrata keeps up fight against Zeidan

The Moslem Brotherhood in Misrata remains up in arms against Ali Zeidan's government. While continuing to press the General National [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.03.2013

Ali Aujali

Ali Aujali, Libya's ambassador to United States, has resigned. He [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 28.03.2013

Babcock International

Babcock International, a leading sub-contractor to the British armed forces [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.03.2013

Cteq

Cteq, an English company that supplies and manages hospitals, recently [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.03.2013

Tarsin the head hunter

A Libyan national who has spent his entire life in [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.03.2013

Megarief convalescing

The president of the General National Council (GNC), 73-year-old Mohamed [...]

Subscribers only 28.03.2013

Moore's tourism and trade ambitions

The US businessman John M. Moore slotted himself into a British trade mission led by the Middle East Association (MEA) [...]