Category: North Africa

Planning Minister Ashraf el-Araby said on Saturday 28/5/2016 that investment projects carried out in Egypt in the first half of 2015/16 Fiscal Year (FY) hit 172 billion pounds compared to 142 billion pounds in the same period last year. Addressing a press conference, the minister said the value of investment projects carried out by the…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday China is ready to strengthen cooperation with Tunisia in such areas as infrastructure and industrial capacity, as well as expand two-way trade and investment. Wang said this during his official visit to Tunisia, which comes after the 7th ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) held…

A French naval vessel was en route to the eastern Mediterranean on Thursday to join the hunt for black boxes from a crashed EgyptAir jet, equipped with three specialist probes from a French company recruited to accelerate the search. France’s BEA air crash investigation agency said French naval survey vessel Laplace had left Corsica earlier…

A meeting between Algerian and Qatari businessmen will be held in Algiers by the end of 2016, on the sidelines of the 6th session of Algeria-Qatar High Joint Commission, announced Wednesday in Doha Minister of Industry and Mining Abdesselam Bouchouareb. In a statement to the press at the end of his discussions with Vice Chairman…

Minister of Energy, Salah Khebri held discussions Wednesday, in Algiers, with Danish ambassador to Algeria, Margit Thomsen, who expressed Danish companies’ interest in investing in renewable energy in Algeria. According to the ministry’s communiqué, the meetings between the two parties focused on the strengthening of cooperation relations in the energy field, particularly renewable energy. On…

EgyptAir will contract two companies, one French and the other Italian, to help in the search for the black boxes of its plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, Egyptian state television said on Wednesday. Egypt’s flag-carrier airline announced on Thursday that its Airbus A320-232 jetliner plunged into the Mediterranean en route from Paris to…

Chinese President Xi Jinping extended condolences to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and French President Francois Hollande over ill-fated EgyptAir plane that was heading from Paris to Cairo on Thursday. In condolence messages sent to his Egyptian and French counterparts, Xi Jinping expressed sincere sympathy to the victims’ families, Chinese media reported. EgyptAir flight MS804…

Companies producing electricity from renewable energy will benefit from the guarantee to sale their production over twenty years (20), Energy Minister Salah Khebri announced Sunday in Algiers during the Algeria-UK business forum. Speaking at a workshop on renewable energies, held part of the forum, the minister stated that the Algerian regulations guarantee to companies producing…

Damage to farming caused by strong winds in several governorates of the country will be under focus at a Cabinet meeting that will take place next week, said Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries Saad Seddik. Speaking at the 11th edition of the Mediterranean Agriculture and Food Industry Fair, he noted that measures will…

A strike by EgyptAir pilots, which resulted in the cancellation or delay of 40 flights in the past five days, has ended on Sunday, according to sources in the Egyptian airline. A number of pilots had announced on Wednesday that they were on strike to demand higher pay and improved working conditions. In line with…