King & investments

Tunisia Seeks to Do Business with the Gulf Countries

Economists are getting increasingly optimistic about the plan of Tunisia’s Prime Minister, Mehdi Jomaa, to tackle persistent unemployment and a tight budget. Mr Jomaa has recently visited a number of Gulf countries, accompanied by a delegation of businesspeople led by the head of the Tunisian Union of Trade, Industry, and Handicrafts (UTICA), Wided Bouchamaoui. Mr […]

BP exits Senegalese gas field amid disputes with Government over priority

British multinational oil and gas company, British Petroleum (BP) has left the Senegalese Yakaar-Teranga natural gas field following a fallout with authorities over the utilization of the commodity, Sputnik reports. The move came after Senegal’s Minister of Oil and Energy Antoine Felix Diome told media that both sides are on opposite sides when it comes […]

Mauritania Teams Up with United Nations to fight Money Laundering

Mauritania financial authorities, bankers and businessmen seems to have joined forces in the fight against money laundering, financial crimes, tax evasion and terrorism financing. At a meeting held lately in Nouakchott, experts from of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) showed mauritanian finance inspectors how to foil money-laundering operations, the various methods of […]