Offshoring From France to Africa
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Northern Africa is host to a new call center that's offshoring French-language technical support calls.
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Hardbeatnews.com, JOHANNESBURG, SA, Tues. Oct. 12: Jean Bertrand Aristide is thousands of miles away from South Africa but remains tuned to the strife ongoing in his homeland of Haiti.
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ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST - The federal government is hiring a plane to help Canadians leave Ivory Coast. Those who want to leave the country will be flown from Abidjan to Accra, Ghana, this week.
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PARIS, Jul 13 (IPS) - While oil profits have flooded into countries such  as Angola and Nigeria in recent decades, some African observers  see new potential for the continent in the form of increasingly  in-demand biofuels.
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Bodies of African migrants wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not Italy or Spain, but the small central African country of Gabon.
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A boatload of migrants arrives almost daily. A decade ago, most were from Eastern Europe. Increasingly, they are from Africa and Asia.
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Developing countries are starting to flex their financial muscles and invest overseas.
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Faced with rising costs and a tangle of regulations, more and more British firms are moving their operations abroad, often to China and Eastern Europe.
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Accounts for half of global deals Demand for outsourcing in Europe has increased dramatically in the first half of 2007, compared with the same period last year, according to the latest Quarterly Index from labour sourcing advisers TPI.â¦
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- An exodus of foreigners from Ivory Coast showed no signs of easing yesterday as African leaders prepared to seek ways to end the crisis in the West African country.
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BusinessWeek Online - Many people fear that the availability of cheap global labor in our increasingly integrated world economy -- or "globalization," -- is prompting companies to relocate production abroad. Yet a recent study by the European Commission (EC) suggests that high labor costs aren't so much the problem as the European Union's failure to cope with increased international competition and an accelerated speed of technological change.
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Nicolas Sarkozy heads for Algeria and Tunisia - his first visit outside Europe since becoming French president.
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PARIS, Sep 25 (IPS) - While its economic landscape is brightening, Africa  is still bedeviled by some of the same obstacles that has  historically served to undermine economic development in the  resource and labour-rich region. And many of those woes could be  solved through development of further intraregional trade.
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Matalan offered Rightshored[tm] services Capgemini has offered to shift UK jobs overseas in a bid to retain its Â£40m contract to provide IT services for the retail chain Matalan, The Register has learned.â¦
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For more than 100 years, French families have made their homes in this tropical country, rich in coffee and cocoa. Its main city, with its towering skyscrapers, crisp croissants and fine wines, became known as the Paris of West Africa.
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PARIS, Sep 24 (IPS) - Not a bad idea when French President Jacques Chirac  proposed a global tax on weapons sales and corporate profits to  pay for development in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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DAKAR, Senegal The news reports streaming out of Abidjan, Ivory Coast&#39;s once-shining metropolis, seem like a throwback to a bygone era: white men and women cowering in their homes, black men and women rampaging through the streets, European soldiers