One of the world’s greatest rivers passes through Africa’s newest capital. Unlike much of the dry country, mango green Southern Sudan’s Juba does not look like it should have water …
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The Egyptian government is working with the World Bank to update its mining legislation, in the hope of drawing international investors to the country’s untapped gold reserves. The International Finance …
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With the lifting of the last remaining customs barriers, Tunisia’s free trade agreement with the European Union forcefully entered into effect on January 1, 2008, opening a range of prospects …
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In San Francisco, a “bedouin” is a young urban freelancer, saddled with the latest in laptops and cell-phones, who has traded in the sedentary lifestyle of the office for the …
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At the Festival of World Sacred Music in Fes, artists and scholars from all over the world converge on this ancient Islamic capital to ruminate on the sacred and its …
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Oujda, flanked by the Algerian border and the Mediterranean Sea, is Morocco’s potential gateway to the East. Geographically cut off from the rest of Morocco, separated by a five-hour train …
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Andrew Mayen worked in the banking sector in America before he came back home, together with thousands of others, to South Sudan after the 2005 peace agreement. His new place …
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During the Cold War, Egypt’s centralized, state-directed economy served as a model for other countries looking to adopt a socialist system. All commercial banks were state-owned, and bank employees were …
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Although storm clouds of a deteriorating external economic environment loom ahead, the Tunisian economy preserves a sunny outlook, posting promising signs of sustained growth and continuing open market reforms. Foreign …
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Among all North African countries, Algeria continues to have the best excuses for the state of its economy. Under foreign control until 1956, the country faced nationalization schemes for several …