HAThursday, 16 April 2009
Several events marked 2008 as a milestone year for relations between Turkey and Africa.  

Hannah ArmstrongThursday, 02 April 2009
The United States militarized its policy towards Africa, defended unpopular and undemocratic regimes, and undermined United Nations peacekeeping missions on the continent under the Bush administration, says the Africa-centered think tank Foreign Policy in Focus in its Africa Policy Outlook 2009.

Said Mekki, ParisMonday, 30 March 2009
The American predilection for bailout plans conflicts with the European Union’s respect for macro-economic balances and regulation. This is a debate that concerns the entire global economy.

H.A.Sunday, 29 March 2009
Libya will make public a draft constitution at the end of this month, according to a local television station.

HAFriday, 27 March 2009
European repo trades declined 26 % from June to December of 2008, as more banks cut credit and sought higher capital ratios, according to the latest survey by the European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).  

Interview conducted by El Kadi Ihsane Monday, 16 March 2009
Abdelhaq Bourouai is the Chief Executive Officer of the Algiers port company, EPAL. He has just signed the new Djazair Port World into being. This is a joint venture with the world’s third leading operator, the Emirates company, Dubai World Port. Djazair PW will have, as a concession, the Algiers container terminal for thirty years. The same operation is planned for Djendjen. EPAL’s CEO explains the goal of this unprecedented partnership in Algeria.

Sana Harb, Algiers Friday, 13 March 2009
Oil and power – that’s what Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi is offering to Libyans who publicly debated his proposal.

Interview conducted by Adama Wade, Casablanca Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Until now, Saifee Durbar, the Central African Republic’s Vice Foreign Affairs Minister, had refrained from making any comments on a current legal case – a troubling tale of power and money that concerns him deeply. The plot includes mysterious financial schemes, challenged take-over bids and, since the setting is the Central African Republic, mines. Lots of mines.

AW Monday, 09 March 2009
Gabon is denouncing the “provincial judges” who want to increase their popularity at Africa’s expense. They are making an official appeal for the “thorough” re-examination of “cooperative agreements with France.”

Sana Harb, Algiers Tuesday, 24 February 2009
“Lyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon” (LKP), Union against exploitation. A fire that sparked in Guadeloupe, then spread to Martinique now threatens to blaze even farther.

H.A. Monday, 23 February 2009
Hundreds of Touareg rebels laid down their arms in the northern Malian city of Kidal on Tuesday, symbolizing their readiness to negotiate a lasting peace with the Malian army, the AFP is reporting.  

Hannah Armstrong Thursday, 19 February 2009
Africa, already the world’s fastest-growing market for telecommunications, is about to get a lot more connected. A new study by Boston-based AfricaNext Investment is predicting fourfold growth in broadband connectivity on the continent by 2012.

H.A. Tuesday, 17 February 2009
With key indicators now reflecting the negative impact of the financial crisis on Egypt’s economy, government officials are admitting to some strain, and seeking treatment through adjusting monetary policy and investing in infrastructure.

HA Sunday, 15 February 2009
King Mohamed VI, ministers and leaders from the private sector assembled in Fes on Friday to inaugurate the country’s new National Industrial Emergence Pact.

HA Friday, 13 February 2009
Trading in Nigeria’s inter-bank currency exchange market froze on Wednesday, after the Central Bank decided to tighten restrictions on foreign exchange transactions by commercial banks.

HA Friday, 13 February 2009
Nissan, rocked by the financial crisis, is withdrawing from the Renault-Nissan Alliance’s industrial project in the Tangier Med Zone.

Hannah Armstrong Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Private equity funds dedicated to Africa were up 37% in 2008 compared to 2007, and the number of private equity funds with closes rose from 16 in 2007 to 21 in 2008.

Hannah Armstrong, Casablanca Monday, 09 February 2009
Next week, United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to elaborate the second phase of the country’s economic bailout program, currently under debate in the Senate.

Hannah Armstrong Saturday, 07 February 2009
Morocco announced on Wednesday it had selected Bull from a pool of seven candidates for the project of automating Casablanca’s International Mail Center.

Ismael Aidara, Paris Friday, 06 February 2009
A victim of its turbulent business climate, Guinea let a major tourism investment slip right through its fingers. Owned by the Libyan company, Laico, the future Afriquiya Hotel will be built in Bamako.