Vol 37 No 5 | LIBYA Unsanctioned 1st March 1996 US companies fear their Libyan oil holdings may be picked off by European rivals When President Bill Clinton hosted President Jacques Chirac in January, a crucial item was missing from the summit agenda: Libyan oil. The omission is extraordinary as a row over t...
Vol 37 No 5 | MOROCCO Ganja grief 1st March 1996 Business leaders, among others, are complaining that Interior and Information Minister Driss Basri has been using the kingdom's latest crackdown on drugs smugglers to consolidate h...
Vol 37 No 2 | ALGERIA Zeroual's next move 19th January 1996 Disarray in the Islamist opposition is making the President more confident Following his convincing win in November's election, President Lamine Zeroual faces the much harder task of holding legislative elections this year. Harder for him because he hasn'...