North Africa

Overseas outsourcing may have pricked a nerve among Western workers who fret about rising unemployment rates and the loss of jobs to foreign shores, but it has also helped drive …

At a hotel by the Nile, politicians and civil society representatives from oil producing regions are indignant about the activities of oil companies in their home areas. Entire villages have …

The global financial crisis is causing Maghrebi economists to rethink dependence on foreign sources of financing economic growth. As financing possibilities at the international level grow increasingly limited, Maghrebi economies …

Higher world oil prices in recent years — which apexed in mid-2008 — as well as advances in technology and reforms easing foreign investment have renewed interest in hydrocarbon production …

Insecurity along Sudan’s roads has taken a toll on the country’s trucking industry. According to an assessment conducted by the United Nations Joint Logistics Center (UNJLC) in Sudan, two out …

In three years, Khadija Boutarbash’s life has been transformed. Once an economically vulnerable ambulant seller of handicrafts, she is now a proud entrepreneur who has expanded her family-run small enterprise …

With a 46% poverty rate and slack security situation, Mauritania is an at-risk nation whose significance to global investors and statesmen is at an all-time high. The sparsely populated Islamic …

Tunisia’s creation of a small-cap alternative market is part of an overall strategy that aims to promote financial markets as a complementary alternative to stock market financing of small-and medium-sized …

September was a bad month for Nhial Bol, editor and owner of Sudan’s The Citizen newspaper. Shut down by the national government Bol had to move printing from Khartoum to …

Who is really profiting from Algeria’s oil revenues? This question is fueling a heated public debate in the country. Former political officials, economists, and even political parties are questioning the …