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BY PAUL COCHRANE, BY VÉRONIQUE NARAME AND BY SEYDOU TRAORÉ

North Africa’s tobacco market opens to the world

North Africa’s tobacco markets have long been dominated by state-run companies and monopolies. But change has slowly come to the region through increased economic liberalisation, enabling international brands to gain market share.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Maverick airlines push forward on e-cigarette sales

Major low-cost airlines in Europe are consolidating their e-cigarette sales to passengers. But the taboo against public smoking makes smokers shy of ‘lighting up’ in the cabin – they dive into the toilets if they smoke on board.…

BY SAMI HALABI

BEFORE the county’s 1975-90 civil war Lebanon was an oil transit nation, with pipelines running through its territory from Saudi Arabia, and export terminals on its shores. Today, the country cannot even produce the electricity it needs to power its cities and is completely dependent on imports of oil and gas for energy.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

PETROBRAS, Brazil’s national oil company, has been heavily investing in pipeline technology via a large-scale project to expand its pipeline network. This investment of time, energy and money has put Brazil on the cutting edge of global pipeline technology developments.…

BY MARIYA PETKOVA, BY PAUL COCHRANE, AND BY KEITH NUTHALL

AFTER the economic crisis hit Egypt’s demand for vegetable oil imports in 2009/2010, industry experts from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) foreign agricultural servicepredicted a relative recovery for this sub-sector in 2010/2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PREPARATORY work for mining a major cobalt-copper deposit in Russia, could be funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD). The bank has released plans for an equity investment of US$21 million in Isle of Man-registered Imperial Mining Holding Limited, whose subsidiaries explore base and precious metal resources in Russia and Mongolia.…

BY MARIYA PETKOVA, BY ALAN OSBORN, BY PAUL COCHRANE, BY LEE ADENDOORF, BY MAKKI MARSEILLES AND VÉRONIQUE NARAME

THE EGYPTIAN political crisis could hardly have happened at a worse time for the European food industry, struggling to contain the significant increases in commodity prices of 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers and MEPs will over the next two years debate a newly proposed law authorising the use of air passenger name data by security and law enforcement teams across the EU. There is currently no such legislation, although this data is demanded by some non-EU countries, such as the USA, Canada and Australia.…

BY MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and EMMA JACKSON

WHILE European paint manufacturers are breathing sigh of relief having passed the first major compliance deadline for the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, the same cannot be said for paint manufacturers in India.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) climate change committee has banned the generation of tradeable EU carbon credits through investments in emerging market countries to reduce production of two chemicals associated with plastics and polymers. These are trifluoromethane (HFC-23) when produced as a by-product of making chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from adipic acid production.…