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The global financial meltdown of the past year has had a major dragging effect on the country's own financing and credit capabilities, a turmoil that has accelerated with its disastrous political environment. The August 10, 2008 coup that toppled the president and the July 2009 elections have further exacerbated and eroded the country's already meager finances. Click here to read the Alert.

This document provides an analysis of North Africa's infrastructure sector. Click here to download the analysis.

Libya's economic transformation began in earnest after 2003. While the country's economic infrastructure remains below international standards, its hydrocarbons wealth is enabling the channeling of its oil revenues into an aggressive domestic development program. Click here to download the analysis.

It has been a busy decade for telecom carrier Maroc Telecom and the road ahead is an ambitious one too. In 1999, the company was transformed from a state-owned bureaucracy to become a vibrant private-sector firm. The primary enablers of such swift transformation have been its privatization, Vivendi's acquisition of majority equity of 53%, and its entry into the stock market. Later, its transformation into an international player was enabled when Maroc Telecom acquired majority stakes in a series of African peers, such as Mauritania's Mauritel, Gabon Telecom of Gabon, Onatel of Burkina Faso, and more recently Sotelma of Mali. Click here to download the analysis.