Vital Kamerhe, OIF summit, Denis Sassou Nguesso, François Gouyette

French-speaking nations club OIF helps firms set up in Cairo and Casablanca 

The French-speaking nations club OIF is organising business prospection trips to Cairo and Casablanca to attract entrepreneurs and investors from French-speaking regions to the two cities. The OIF is targeting the agri-food, renewable energy and digital sectors. [...]

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After a slow start, Medef turns to Tebboune-era employers' organisation CREA 

On the sidelines of the Franco-Algerian high-level intergovernmental committee held in Algiers on 9 and 10 October, Medef vice-president Fabrice Le Saché had a long discussion with Kamel Moula, president of the Algerian Economic Renewal Council, CREA. [...]

CREA employers' federation seeks to embody Algerian economic revival 

Algeria's brand new CREA employers' federation has hit the ground running and established itself as a key player in the business community. It is keen to distance itself from the defunct business leaders' forum led by jailed oligarch Ali Haddad, a vestige of the last years of the Bouteflika regime. [...]

As they return to Algiers, French bosses caught between old and new worlds 

Representatives of more than a dozen major French companies will later this month pay their first visit to Algiers in five years. But the government is unhappy with their umbrella organisation's continuing collaboration with a counterpart entity associated with the ousted Bouteflika administration. [...]

Tahakom, MBS' latest creation, hastens push into big data 

The state-owned cyber technology company Tahakom has recently issued its first tenders for a big data processing tool. Several Western [...]