Sonia Ounissi
No image available
/ 13 February 2007

African growth needs financial openness

Africa struggles to turn natural resource exports into lasting wealth because it fails to manage the revenues openly enough, World Bank experts said on Monday. ”We don’t know how governments and the elites receive their money,” said World Bank petroleum economist Eleodoro Mayorga Alba.

No image available
/ 6 December 2006

Nip-and-tuck tourism brings hard cash to Tunisia

Melinda Tricoli sits beaming with joy in a four-star Tunisian hotel after an operation to flatten her stomach. ”I’m so happy. I feel up with the angels. It’s spotless, a job well done,” she enthuses. Tricoli caught a plane from her native France to Tunisia after a botched job by a French surgeon left her with three lumps on her stomach.