Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. (AMEX:WEL) announced it has signed a new Safeguard contract that is worth $45 million for a term of up to 36
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
(TrendHunter.com) Survivor Gabon will pit 18 contestants against each other in physical as well as social extremes. Survivor Gabon, which was filmed in North Africa, aired yesterday, and to build on the excitement, we thought…
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The International Organization for Migration estimates that up to 35,000 sub-Saharan clandestine migrants leave for North Africa and Europe every year.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The World Economic Forum's 2008-2009 Global Competitiveness Report ranks Tunisia 36th in the world and 1st country in Africa and the Maghreb region.
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
At least five people have reportedly been killed in floods caused by a new wave of powerful rains.
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
More than a hundred Egyptians have attacked policemen in a town south of Cairo after a pregnant woman died during a police search of her home.
IOL (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Egyptian police have arrested the owner of a building which collapsed, killing 11 residents.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Tunis Planetarium has set up a rich program of activities to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Backos family has renovated the restaurant part of Ernie's -- the huge dining room, bar and banquet hall at 19 Mile and Garfield in Clinton Township -- to create the Mediterranean Room, which is serving wines and dishes drawn from Greece, Italy, France, Spain and North Africa.
North Africa (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The American government, from the White House to Congress, has been sleeping at the wheel over the past eight years acting as an absent landlord. The political and financial crisis that is unfolding before our eyes masks a substantial weakness in the way the American political and economic systems function, including how the old ideologies [...]
Middle East Notebook (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
MEMRI: The Middle East ventures into nuclear energy Spurred by Iran's nuclear program and the risk it could pose to their security, a growing number of Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa are seeking to develop nuclear energy, ostensibly for peaceful purposes. With rich resources at the disposal of most of them, there is no shortage of suppliers willing to provide the know how, technical...
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The deployment of the CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft to North Africa this month for Operation Flintlock 09 overshadows the retirement of the long-serving MH-53 Pave Low helicopter. The final Pave Low mission was flow in Iraq in September by the Air Force's 20th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron. Once numbering 39 helicopters, the Pave Low fleet was employed around the world for low-level...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Now that the US economy has been hit with the financial meltdown, what are the options for investors from the Middle East and North Africa? The global financial crisis does not seem to distinguish between countries and regions or between sound and weak economic fundamentals. It seems that we have been through this before. During the Asian crisis and later the Russian default of the mid 1990s, an analyst...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
A research conducted by "SRI International" and "Intelligent Spas", ranked Tunisia second for most the profitable Spa and thalasso therapy business in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA).
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gumir | 03/19/2008
UAE . Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC) in the Middle East and North Africa, today opened its first fully-dedicated sales shop in the city of Almaty , Kazakhstan. The Sharjah-based carrier, which has provided direct flights to Kazakhstan since 2005, currently offers fours flights per week to Kazakhstan, including two flights per week to Astana and Almaty. Air Arabia’s new Almaty...
