Libya will have to pay Kuwait’s Kharafi group $930 million in damages for former leader Muammar Gaddafi’s cancelling of the construction of a vacation resort, Kuwaiti newspapers reported on Monday.
M. A. Kharafi and Sons, a company owned by one of Gulf state’s biggest merchant families, won the award in arbitration proceedings via the Arab League, Al-Rai newspaper said, without giving its sou
Egypt exported $773 million worth of gold to Canada in 2012, Fayez Ezz al-Din, head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, said on Monday.
Foreign exchange shortages are making it harder for Vodafone’s Egyptian business to buy network equipment and it has asked some suppliers to accept payment in Egyptian pounds, its local chief executive said.
British bank Barclays, seeking to fix its battered reputation caused by last year’s Libor rate-rigging scandal, said Wednesday that it returned to profit in the first quarter with net earnings of £839 million ($1.28 billion, 983 million euros) after a loss in the first three months of 2012.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi asked Russia on Friday for grain and a loan to help ease a deepening economic crisis but secured neither at talks with President Vladimir Putin.