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BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA; AND PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT

COMMERCIAL crime may not be as omnipresent in North Africa as in some other parts of the world, but companies operating in the region have risks to contend with.…

BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA

A TERRORIST attack on March 3 targeted the local headquarters of Algeria’s national rural police force ‘El Dark El Watani’ (in the southern Algerian border town of Tamanrasset with a booby-trapped car, leaving 23 people wounded.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE IN BEIRUT

THE ‘ARAB Spring’ uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past year have had a mixed effect on Arabic publishing. Book sales have plunged due to instability, and while some countries have loosened up on censorship, others have clamped down.…

BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS

When talking to Accounting & Business in her Paris office, Michèle Cartier Le Guérinel often struggles to make herself heard over the noise of the renovations shaking the walls on either side of her. Several floors of her international accountancy organisation FIDEF’s headquarters, in an anachronistically new and large building on an otherwise quiet street in the most elegant seventh arrondissement (a stone’s throw from the Eiffel Tower), are undergoing a thorough makeover.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OLIVE oil growers in the European Union (EU) are currently facing an increasingly frustrating situation: while demand is growing internationally and harvests have been unusually good in recent years, prices are falling at a rapid rate, threatening the livelihood of the thousands of farmers in the main growing countries.…

BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS

Michèle Cartier Le Guérinel qualified as an accountant and auditor in 1985

1990-93

President of the professional association of the Essonne region, near Paris.

1993-2000, 2003-10

Elected vice president of the Compagnie Régionale des Commissaires aux Comptes de Paris (CRCC – Regional Company of the Auditors of Paris, in English).…

BY MEGAN DETRIE and KACI RACELMA

THE IMPACT of the Arab Spring revolution has rattled though North Africa, leaving no economic sector unscathed – including the personal care products industry. Despite the fact that the growth of the cosmetics markets in countries like Tunisia, Egypt and Libya remains limited in lieu of the year of demonstrations and political upheaval, efforts are currently being made to boost the industry.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

UPRISINGS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) this year have hit demand for printers in Lebanon, which has long been the printing hub of the region. Lebanese printers canvassed privately for Print Week MEA report that the upheavals have seen demand from Egypt and Syria decline, while transportation has been marginally affected from Lebanon due to the situation in neighbouring Syria.…

BY ALYSSA MCMURTRY

Spanish canned fish products giant Conservas Garavilla has said its takeover of the family owned Conservas Cuca last Thursday is "one step more in consolidating its position as a national leader of this industry." So said Estanislao Garavilla, president of holding company Galicia-based Grupo Garavilla.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SERIES of bilateral civil aviation agreements negotiated by the European Union (EU) have remained unenforced because some EU member states have failed to ratify their terms. The European Commission has issued a report branding this "unfortunate", noting this "has the consequence of delaying their entry into force".…