North Africa

In June, Morocco entered into fresh free trade agreement talks to add Canada to its growing number of close commercial partners. The list of Morocco’s free trade allies already includes …

For fairly obvious reasons, Morocco’s pork production sector has never been one of the country’s sectoral heavyweights. In a nation with a majority Muslim population and minority Jewish community, farmers …

Tunisia was ranked the most competitive business environment in Africa in a report released during the World Economic Forum summit in Cape Town. The 2009 Africa Competitiveness Report, produced by …

Financial reforms conducted over the past two decades have left the Algerian banking sector well poised to bounce back from the global financial crisis, according to the World Economic Forum’s …

The most significant step toward creating an ambitious, $500 billion solar project in the North African desert occurred on July 13. Executives representing one Algerian and 11 European companies gathered …

Tunisia’s investment in information and communication technology (ICT) has begun to pay off. A flurry of recent reports has ranked the sector among the top in the region, highlighting its …

Private developers are moving to establish a permanent foothold in Algeria’s largely untapped real estate market, with a number of sizeable projects due to break ground in the coming year.  …

Like many of its neighbors, Morocco has a long-term tourism development strategy and has recently highlighted its flexibility by introducing a new program to follow its current tourism plan, called …

Construction has long been a mainstay of the Tunisian economy, and this year new projects will help stimulate an economy that is likely to see a contraction resulting from the …