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Naguib seems to have inherited his father's golden touch. Over the past six years, Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holding has grown into an increasingly profitable company, with more than $4 billion in revenue and 17.1 million subscribers in Muslim countries, including Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia...
Since getting back on its feet, Orascom has jettisoned some markets, including Chad and Ivory Coast, and concentrated on a handful of key nations. At the top of the list is Algeria, where Orascom has more than 70% of the market. The firm also has 6 million customers in Pakistan...
...attraction of Italy, a wealthy nation saturated with telefonini. That's one reason Sawiris is investing his own money, not Orascom's. "It doesn't fit," he acknowledges--at least not for now. Yet Sawiris can point to his record of success in unlikely places: "When I went into Algeria and Pakistan, people thought I was crazy. They still think I'm crazy because I'm in Iraq." --With reporting by Amany Radwan/Cairo...
Risky Business Orascom has tripled its subscribers in three years by focusing on developing markets like Iraq and Algeria...
...Calcutta to be phased out by the end of the year, after more than a century in use, by legislators who have called this mode of transport a "human indignity" 404 Number of Moroccan prisoners of war, captives from the 30-year conflict over Western Sahara, released from Algeria last week 17 Average number of years the POWs were held, the longest known internment of soldiers in modern history 15 million Number of Popsicle sticks used to construct the Mjollnir, a 15-m replica of a Viking vessel that will launch from Amsterdam next year in an attempt to cross...