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EGYPT Finance Energy 30/03/2023

Petronas, Apex, SDX and Dana poised to exit over late state payments

EGYPT Business 30/03/2023

Tourism rebound whets luxury hotel group appetites

Oberoi Hotels & Resorts is reportedly planning to open two new establishments in Egypt. A rapid increase in the number of visitors to the country has prompted the Indian giant, along with other international luxury hotel groups, to boost its presence there.

MOROCCO Business 30/03/2023

Danone's Moroccan branch tries one last throw of financial dice

The danger signals are everywhere for Centrale Danone, the Moroccan subsidiary of the French dairy giant, which has launched a financial salvage operation. The stakes are high for the parent company, since Morocco is its main African market.

ALGERIA FRANCE Politics Diplomacy 29/03/2023

Paris-Algiers ties still strained over extradition requests

French President Emmanuel Macron and Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers, on the 27th of August 2022. © APP/MaxPPP

MOROCCO Diplomacy 29/03/2023

Pan-African Youth Union welcomes its third director in 12 months

Established in Rabat since February 2022, the Pan-African Youth Union is struggling to find its marks in Morocco, as is indicated by its recurrent changes of executive director.

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EGYPT Energy 28/03/2023

Electricity and oil ministries clash over green hydrogen plans

Egypt's trade partners and international investors want to speed up the development of green hydrogen by incorporating it into the framework of the East Med Gas Forum. But Cairo's Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy does not see eye to eye with its Ministry of Petroleum and Resources over the way forward.

ALGERIA Politics 28/03/2023

Why Ramtane Lamamra's resignation as foreign minister was no surprise

Ramtane Lamamra had been considering stepping down from his job as Algeria's foreign minister for almost a year before he finally bit the bullet. His decision was partly motivated by a diplomatic crisis between Algiers and Madrid.

Former Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra in Algiers on the 2nd of November2022.

TUNISIA Defence Diplomacy 27/03/2023

Washington drags its feet over final phase of Tunisian-Libyan Border Security Project

Launched in 2016 the project is suffering from the increasingly frosty relations between the administration of Joe Biden and President Kais Saied.

Tunisian soldiers stand on a sandbank of the anti-jihadi fence, near Ben Guerdane, eastern Tunisia, close to the border with Libya, the 6th of February 2016.

ALGERIA Infrastructure 27/03/2023

Repair of damaged ferry delayed amid row over customs fees

A disagreement between Algérie Ferries and the national shipwright company is likely to prevent repairs to the Tassili II, which collided with a dock in November, being carried out on schedule.

Ferry Tassili II of the Algérie Ferries company, on 12 June 2018.

LIBYA Energy 24/03/2023

Honeywell UOP joins project to resurrect Fezzan refinery Free

Zallaf Libya Oil & Gas Co is trying to revive a refinery project in Fezzan in south-west Libya. The National Oil Corp (NOC) subsidiary has joined forces with the US group Honeywell UOP.

TUNISIA Politics 24/03/2023

Saied blindsided by Taoufik Charfeddine resignation

The interior minister's public announcement that he was stepping down was not cleared by the Tunisian president, who had not yet made up his mind about his successor.

The former Tunisian Minister of the Interior Taoufik Charfeddine.

ALGERIA Diplomacy 23/03/2023

French presidency proposes Stéphane Romatet as ambassador to Algeria

Stéphane Romatet was named French ambassador to Algeria on Wednesday, where he is slated to replace François Gouyette, who will leave the post in July. The appointment comes as tensions between Paris and Algiers are beginning to settle.

Stéphane Romatet, in Cairo, November 2018.

EGYPT Energy Diplomacy 23/03/2023

Green hydrogen on agenda of EU delegation to Cairo

The European Commission's sub-directorate for North Africa is due to visit the Egyptian capital in a few days. Energy and illegal migration are high on the agenda ahead of an EU-Egypt summit in May.

MOROCCO Business 23/03/2023

Rahal Boulgoute adds branding to his expanding business portfolio

Already active in property, agriculture and mining, the Moroccan businessman has moved into a new sector with a partner specialising in design.

ALGERIA Business 23/03/2023

Cevital upset with SACM over new oil production line

Algeria: Cevital management, which is under pressure from the government to ensure that sufficient table oil is available for Ramadan, is upset about the many malfunctions it has encountered on the new production line at its Bejaia refinery.

TUNISIA Politics 22/03/2023

Kaïs Saïed tightens control over new parliament

The president has instructed the speaker of the new Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple, the Tunisian parliament, Brahim Bouderbala, to do away with parliamentary structures that could constitute counter-powers to his increasingly autocratic rule.

ALGERIA Politics 22/03/2023

Boualem Boualem, President Tebboune's super-advisor

The presidential legal advisor's influence over Abdelmadjid Tebboune appears to be growing, to the point of being considered as one of his strategists.

SpotlightMOROCCO Diplomacy 21/03/2023

Rabat-Paris ties frostier than ever

The tension between France and Morocco has worsened in recent weeks, with officials in Rabat now under orders not to receive Ambassador Christophe Lecourtier. Paris, meanwhile, is unlikely to see a new Moroccan ambassador any time soon.

Christophe Lecourtier, French Ambassador to Rabat.

LIBYA Business Diplomacy 21/03/2023

France's foreign trade advisers chase new Libyan contracts

The business climate between the Libyan government and French companies has improved in recent weeks, opening up the prospect of new contracts in telecommunications, health and hotels.

In Focus ALGERIA MALI Diplomacy 20/03/2023

Algerian secret services in survival mode in North Mali

The Algerian intelligence services were long all-powerful in Mali, especially in the north of the country. But faced with a hostile junta and a reorganisation of the Tuareg movements, Algiers must now deal with a situation that is more fragile than ever.

The Algerian foreign intelligence service is seeking to renew its ties with the Malian Tuareg movements.

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Repair of damaged ferry delayed amid row over customs fees

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