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algiers
BOUTEFLIKA AND SECRET SERVICES STAND-OFF ON "DELICATE" AFFAIRS
   Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Algeria's secret services have settled into a period of peaceful co-existence.  (...)  [118 words]   [$2,1]
FRENCH EMPLOYERS GET MOVING AT LAST
   After holding off because of an erroneous reading of the political situation – some "specialists" were persuaded Bouteflika would be out of office on January 13 – France has begun advancing again in Algeria, a few weeks behind its European partners.  (...)  [174 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
DIRHAM TO BE DEVALUED?
   Moroccan political and financial circles have begun to once again seriously moot the devaluation of the dirham.  (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]
REMOVING POLITICS FROM THE MOROCCO-SPAIN PICTURE
   After a one-year chill in relations, the Averroes Committee that brings together leading figures in Morocco and Spain will meet next week in Rabat.  (...)  [117 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
EPILOGUE TO BANQUE FRANCO-TUNISIENNE AFFAIR
   On Jan. 11 France's Court of Final Appeal confirmed the ruling, reached by arbitration, that compelled the Banque Franco-Tunisienne (BFT) to pay Majid Bouden's ABCI company $8 million.  (...)  [86 words]   [$2,1]
NEW DROP IN OIL REVENUE?
   Forecasts for oil production in Tunisia's year 2000 budget are down once again, to an estimated 3,72 million tons this year against 3.  (...)  [92 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
THE SCUDS THAT DON'T MAKE MUCH NOISE
   Having launched a big business operation in Libya, the British government has been doing its best to play down its impoundment of parts of Scud missiles that Libya had ordered.  (...)  [269 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
ALGERIA
JEFFERSON WATERMAN
   JEFFERSON WATERMAN, an American consultancy, has been asked by Algerian state assets and reforms minister Abdelhamid Temmar to take charge of Algeria's lobbying operations in the United States, according to the publication algeria-interface.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
UMGENI WATER
   UMGENI WATER, a South African black business group that has worked with France's Vivendi in South Africa, has submitted a bid for drinking water projects in Algiers and Constantine.  (...)  [81 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
CREDIT AGRICOLE-INDOSUEZ
   CREDIT AGRICOLE-INDOSUEZ will count a lot on Saad Ketani from the Wafabank in fulfiling its contract to advise the government on the privatization of Royal Air Maroc.  (...)  [36 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
KRONENBOURG
   KRONENBOURG is to put its new "Tango" beer on the Algerian market next month following an agreement the brewery signed last year with businessman Djilali Mehri.  (...)  [50 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
MAROC TELECOM
   MAROC TELECOM and the privatization of Morocco's telecommunications system are still very much on the agenda in Rabat.  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ALGERIA/SWITZERLAND
AHMED ZAOUI
   The Algerian fundamentalist Ahmed Zaoui has cost Switzerland exactly Sfr145,527 ($93,286) since the Confederation deported him to Burkina Faso in October, 1998.  (...)  [107 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
RACHED THANNOUCHI
   Depite the Tunisian government's 10 years of "total war" against the Al Nahda fundamentalist movement, its leader, Rached Ghannouchi, remains highly active in exile.  (...)  [151 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/TUNISIA
CLAUDE SUQUET
   Head of the CSA company (Conseil, Sondages and Analyses), Mrs.  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]

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