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		<title>Algeria to go nuclear in 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Boechat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solar energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yousef Yousfi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yousef Yousfi, Algeria’s minister of Energy and Mines has told reporters that the government is planning to begin the construction of a nuclear power plant in 2025. If the plan gets executed in more than a decade from now, it will be the country’s first nuclear plant. The deadline to get its first plant has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian pound settles for a another new record</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Boechat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vodafone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Egyptian pound has strike a new low against the US dollar, after official exchange rates reached LE7, a rate unseen since 2003, in commercial banks in the country. It marks another turning point in the country’s crisis, despite financial assistance from Qatar and Libya. Egypt was able to register an increase in its foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algeria fights informal trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Addamah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dahou Ould Kablia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informal trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Algeria’s Interior Minister and Trade Minister, have a made  a joint announcement of plans to integrate more youth active in the black market into the formal sector, after the successful integration of more than 55,000 merchants in its past operations. According to a census conducted at the beginning of last year, more than 63,000 people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tunisia to reopen its embassy in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Boechat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damascus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisia wants to reopen its embassy in Syria which has been closed for more than two years and has sent a request in this vein to the government in Damascus. Tunis is yet to receive a reply from Syria’s foreign ministry and a diplomatic source said that the letter has been sent to the foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suez Canal investment project launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Addamah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hesham Qandil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suez Canal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Hesham Qandil has pointed out that the government is willing to offer some areas around the Suez Canal for investment projects, but it will be under the terms of usufruct. He made these remarks at the first conference on the Suez Canal Corridor Development Project. A law has been designed to regulate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tunisia’s “Corruption ban” to be uplifted for economic revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Addamah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marzouki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UTICA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisia’s president has called for the imposed travel ban on citizens suspected of corruption, which is estimated to be affecting 0,4% of businessmen to be uplifted in a move geared towards contributing to the revival of the economy, and the promotion of the nation’s reconciliation which needs transparency. President Marzouki made these remarks during a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya wants credit ratings return</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafid El Fassy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamic banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ratings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saddek Elkaber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The governor of Libya’s central bank, Saddek Elkaber, has revealed they are engaged in talks to have the country’s credit rating by Standard &#38; Poor’s in place after it was suspended when the armed campaign against the Gadhafi regime worsened. Standard &#38; Poor suspended it ratings for Libya in April 2011 and by that time, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algeria and South Africa to speed up trade and investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Boechat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Thabethe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob Zuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pretoria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa’s Deputy Minister of the Department of Trade and Industry said that they have agreed with their Algerian partners to put in place a Joint Trade and Investment Committee as soon as possible, in a bid to exploit economic opportunities between them. Deputy Minister Elizabeth Thabethe stated that four sectors will be targeted and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt: Islamists keep tourism orthodox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Addamah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hisham Zaazou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orthodox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salafist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tourism minister, Hisham Zaazou, said the government still has “optimistic goals” for tourism and welcomes visitors who can drink alcohol and wear bikinis during their stay. The arrival of an Islamist government raised fears that their policies will turn away tourists. Tourism continues to be an important sector and Minister Zaazou said they are planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algerian Ambassador Dr. Benflis continues his Pakistani tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geraldine Boechat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farooq Iftikhar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lahore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LCCI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNG]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Algerian ambassador in Pakistan has called for more business transactions and investments between the two countries during a speech addressed to the members of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). Ambassador Dr. Ahmed Benflis said the excellent political and economic relations between the governments should be transformed into increasing bilateral trade. Ambassador [...]]]></description>
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