North Africa – Angola: Minister in Algiers’ Pan-African Culture Festival
Angola: Minister in Algiers’ Pan-African Culture Festival
Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, travels to Algiers City, Algeria, leading a delegation from the sector to participate in the Pan-African Culture Festival.
Nigeria Militants: Will Attack Trans-Sahara Pipe If Built (Nasdaq)
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A Nigerian militant group on Saturday reiterated that foreign oil companies should leave the Niger Delta and threatened a planned trans-Saharan pipeline project.
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-07-04 16:48 Egypt economic growth 4.7 pct Q3 2008/09-MENA (Interactive Investor)
CAIRO, July 4 (Reuters) – Egypt’s economy grew around an annualised 4.7 percent in the third quarter of the 2008/2009 (July/June) fiscal year, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday, citing a finance ministry report. The figure compared with 4.2 percent in the second quarter of the same fiscal year, according to MENA, and suggested that most sectors of the country’s economy had resumed …
Nigeria: Govt, Algeria to Sign Gas Pipeline Deal
An agreement to build a gas pipeline from Nigeria across the Sahara Desert to Algeria will be signed next week in Abuja, Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Monday.
Morocco arrests brother of top Islamist group member (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Morocco has arrested the brother of a prominent figure in the country’s main Islamist opposition group on suspicion of belonging to a hashish smuggling ring, police said on Saturday.
Egypt expels 20 French suspected Islamists (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Egypt has expelled about 20 suspected French Islamists over the past month, an Egyptian security official told AFP on Saturday.
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