FOUR years after the United States lifted sanctions on Libya, advocates of a free market are locked in a struggle with powerful state apparatchiks to decide the country's future.
Leader Muammar Gaddafi has said the oil-rich north African OPEC (...)
For US companies long excluded from Libya, the announcement that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Tripoli this week is a green light for business.
But getting a toehold in Muammar Gaddafi's energy-rich north African country may prove (...)
RUSSIA is reviving an interest in Africa that collapsed with the Cold War and its growing appetite for deals in African oil and gas is an added cause of unease in energy-hungry Western Europe.
Russian firms say the goal is to diversify energy (...)
AFTER years of watching from the sidelines, North Africa has begun to embrace Islamic finance as banking develops and governments try to channel more Arab Gulf petrodollars into an investment-starved region.
But growth could be far slower than in (...)
