The French telecoms carrier France Télécom and Tunisia's first VSAT operator Divona have recently won a license for mobile and fixed-line telephony services in Tunisia after submitting the best technical offer and presenting a competing bid worth TND257million.  (more)

Libya's state-run Zuetina Oil Company has awarded a cooling water contract on its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal to BAM International, the operating-arm of the Dutch-based construction group Royal BAM group. The value of the contract was EUR11.5mn.  (more)

Algerian state-owned energy company Sonatrach has awarded three contracts worth more than US$1.3bn to expand the country's gas transportation network.  (more)

Taqa Arabia, a subsidiary of Cairo-based Citadel Capital, has won a EUR118mn (US$165mn) contract to build a natural gas distribution network in Libya which should supply 370,000 homes in Tripoli, Benghazi and Misurata.  (more)

Morocco's state-owned Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) has recently announced a new gas discovery at its Sebou concession in the Gharb Basin northeast of Rabat in partnership with the UK's oil and gas exploration company Circle Oil.  (more)

Morocco's largest investment fund CDG and French tourism group Pierre&Vacances have recently signed strategic partnership agreement aimed to develop tourist and real estate projects in Morocco.  (more)

According to the Tunisian official news agency, two foreign companies were involved in the final phase of the tender for studying, funding, building and managing a deep water port at Enfidha which will be achieved in a Build-Operate-Transfer basis. The port will have a capacity of 5 million containers per year.  (more)

Itissalat Al Maghrib, Morocco's main telecoms operator, has recently signed an investment agreement worth MAD10.57bn (US$1.3bn) with the Moroccan government to bolster telecoms infrastructure in the country.  (more)

South Korea's Samsung Engineering has recently emerged as the frontrunner to lead a bid for Algeria's Skikda refinery upgrade contract. The company has submitted the most competitive offer worth DZD93.038bn (US$1.2bn) to the Algerian state energy giant Sonatrach.  (more)

The US rating agency Fitch has assigned Libya a BBB+ local currency rating and a BBB+ country ceiling, and an F2 short-term foreign currency rating. The long-term ratings have stable outlook.  (more)