Algeria: oil and gas investments under uncertainty

Following the hostage situation in Algeria, analysts fear that oil and gas future investments are dominated by uncertainty due to fears that investors will be unwilling to venture into its Sahara desert. Some believe that investments won’t be affected because the resources will be too tempting for companies to ignore. Alison Lyall, a security analyst […]

Automotive Industry: New Comer Confirms Morocco’s attractiveness

Spain’s car parts maker, Ficosa, is planning to set up in Morocco a plant specialized in producing in-vehicle cameras, Spanish media reported. The Catalonia-based Ficosa, which has been sold to Japan’s Panasonic last July, plans to invest €50 million in two new plants in Morocco and Malaysia respectively. The Moroccan factory will be located in […]

Algeria faces double defeat following French assembly and UNSC votes

Algeria suffered two diplomatic setbacks in the final days of October, with the French National Assembly recommending the repeal of a decades-old migration accord and the United Nations Security Council endorsing Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara territory. On Oct. 30, lawmakers in France voted in favor of a resolution introduced by the far-right Rassemblement […]