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Subprime Entailed Dismissals or the Chronology of a Crisis

The drop of benefits prompted banks, fast earning mongers, to proceed to a wave of dismissals. In 2011, Barclays already split up with more than 4,400 employees, Crédit Suisse planned to expel 2,000 persons and Lloyds Banking Group, 10,000. The massive suppression of jobs is a trend that has affected the financial world for many […]

Business Energy Features Headlines Morocco

Longreach Completes 2D Seismic Program Onshore Morocco

Longreach oil and gas limited, an independent oil and gas company holding exploration and near term development licences in Morocco, announced earlier this week that it has completed its 2D seismic program on the operated Sidi Moktar Licence, near Marrakesh, onshore Morocco. The program was completed according to the scheduled deadlines and budget, the company […]

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The Algerian-Spanish Trade and Industry Circle

Economic transactions between Algeria and Spain has not seized to increase and it continues “to be more and more important,” according to the Consul General of Spain in Oran, José Manuel Rodriguez. Such fruitful relationships have led to the recent creation of an Algerian-Spanish Trade and Industry Circle (CCIAE) which will be located in El […]

Lifestyle Technology

Egypt’s paintings provide new technology clues

Scientists are turning back towards Egypt’s ancient paintings to develop new technologies and enhance better medical devices.  A pigment know as the Egyptian blue has been considered by the Journal of the American Chemical Society as having clues which can be used by modern scientists towards the development of new nanomaterials with potential uses in […]

Features Headlines Tunisia

Tunisian Ennahda Party: Power, Power when you Hold US…

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced on Monday that his proposal to form a technocrat cabinet to bring the country out of the deadlock has fallen short. Following the second round of negotiations with some 15 political parties on his initiative to form an apolitical cabinet of technocrats, Jebali was quoted by Tunisia’s official news […]

Headlines Libya

Siemens Wins € 100 Mln Contracts In Libya

German Siemens Company has won contracts worth 100 Million euro in Libya wherein the global energy corporation will provide services, carry out inspection and maintenance works in two power plants located in the cities of Khoms and Ruwais. These contracts, awarded by the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), will enable Siemens to overhaul and […]

Algeria Headlines

Algeria: Ain Amenas ready for action

Work will soon begin on the Ain Amenas facility which came under a fatal terrorist attack and hostage situation last month. The Algerian gas complex which is jointly managed by British petroleum (BP), Algeria’s Sonatrach and Norway’s Statoil might partially begin operations next week according to an official from sonatrach. Abdelhamid Zerguine, the head of […]

Egypt Headlines

Egypt: IMF loan not the answer

According to the analyses of the president of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), David Malone, the 4.8 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan is insufficient to end to end Egypt’s economic woes. President Malone is in Cairo when he said that what Egypt needed is not a “western tailored” development model. Malone, a renowned […]

Algeria Headlines

Algeria commemorates National Shaheed Day

A day before the official commemoration ceremonies begin in the country to mark the National Shaheed (martyr) Day observed on the 18th of February, the town of Annaba has already got the ball rolling. In a ceremony attended by the Minister of Mujahedeen (Liberation War veterans) Mohamed-Cherif Abbas, Annaba commemorated the day in style with […]