Egypt has given five new gold exploration contracts worth $13 million to three mining companies in the back of 11 others. The contracts, Arab Finance reports citing a cabinet statement, include a $9 million (EGP 141.49 million) agreement with Canada’s Lotus Gold to explore 11 blocks; a $3 million (EGP 47.16 million) deal with Mining […]
Morocco’s football association, FRMF, held talks Thursday with former French national team coach Roland Blanc for the position of the Atlas Lions manager as negotiations with favorite candidate Bosnian Vahid Halilhodžic reached a stalemate over his salary. Blanc who managed Les Bleus 2010-2012, met Thursday with the FRMF boss, Fouzi Lekjaa who is in […]
The Algerian regime has confirmed through its news agency the arbitrary arrest of Boualem Sansal, a renowned novelist with a critic of the military regime in Algiers. In a diatribe on the national news agency APS, the military regime showed its contempt for free writers such as Sansal whom it called “pseudo writer,” while describing […]
