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algiers
ITALIANS ADVANCE
   Although France is by far Algeria's biggest supplier the French show some signs of concern over an offensive on the Algerian market by their Italian competitors.  (...)  [248 words]   [$2,1]
AIR FRANCE TO SET UP TENT?
   Air France has proposed a novel way of getting around the problem of screening passengers that has held up the resumption of Air France flights between Algiers and Paris.  (...)  [154 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
NEW GOVERNMENT
   Maghreb Confidential understands that a new Moroccan government will be named before May 1.  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
DEVALUATION OFF
   In flatly ruling out any devaluation of the dirham, Moroccan economy minister Fathallah Oualalou was determined primarily to reassure foreign investors.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
SEILLIERE VETOES RELOCATION
   During a recent visit to Morocco at the head of a delegation from the French employers' association MEDEF, the organization's chief, Ernest-Antoine Seilliere made it clear there would be no re-location of French firms to Morocco "as long as labor laws, the property question, the justice system and bureaucratic red tape remain unchanged.  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
CANARY ISLANDS: WIND OR NUCLEAR POWER
   The regional government in the Canary Islands has offered to build a wind-power park on Morocco's southern coast if Rabat scraps its decision to constuct a nuclear power station on the site.  (...)  [70 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
CONCERN OVER GOVERNMENT "ARABIZATION"
   Questioned by senator Xavier de Villepin, who represents French nationals living overseas, on the consequences of a decree compelling the Tunisian government to use only Arabic, French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine declared that "official correspondance and documents addressed to foreigners will continue to be drafted in French and the teaching of the French language in Tunisian schools won't be halted.  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
NO PRIVATIZATION IN "MILITARY" AREA
   The Tunisian government has decided not to privatize the Bizerte cement works for security reasons.  (...)  [38 words]   [FREE]
WHEN EU/TUNISIA ACCORD NEEDS UPDATING
   Tunisian businessmen want to re-negotiate the terms of a European Union-Tunisian trade agreement in such a way as to offer them wider protection.  (...)  [115 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
SWEDEN/TUNISIA
ERICSSON
   ERICSSON has reportedly won the contract for Tunisia's second cellular telephone network.  (...)  [105 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
AMERADA HESS
   AMERADA HESS has just signed its first exploration and enhanced recovery contracts worth $550 million from Algeria's Sonatrach.  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/KUWAIT
KUWAITI ALGERIAN INVESTMENT CORP.
   KUWAITI ALGERIAN INVESTMENT CORP. (KAIC) is thinking of building a Sheraton Hotel costing $80 million at Hassi Messaoud.  (...)  [42 words]   [FREE]
GERMANY/LIBYA
LIBYAN ARAB AIRLINES
   LIBYAN ARAB AIRLINES resumed flights between Tripoli and Frankfurt this week.  (...)  [65 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
LYONNAISE DES EAUX
   LYONNAISE DES EAUX has been declared winner of the Moroccan governmenbt contract for the Oum Er Rbia water supply franchise.  (...)  [54 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
UNITED STATES/MOROCCO
ABDALLAH EL MAAROUFI
   Director of the Banque Populaire du Maroc group since February, 1998, Abdallah el Maaroufi, a former World Bank official, will be Morocco's next ambassador to the U.  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]
UNITED STATES/FRANCE
DALILA BENAMEUR
   In claiming her right to religious freedom, and thanks to the intervention of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Dalila Benameur, a French woman living in Illinois, was able to get her passport renewed without removing her Islamic head-scarf.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
FETHI HOUIDI
   Brother in law of Tunisia's ambassador to Paris, Bousnina Mongi, Fethi Houidi has just been fired from his job as president of ERTT (Etablissement de la Radiodifusion et de la Television Tunisienne) that answers directly to president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali.  (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]
NORTH AFRICA/FRANCE
ANNIE-PAULE CAMUS
   North African program on Radio J, told Maghreb Confidential that she had never - officially, that is- invited the envoys of Algeria and Mauritania to her show.  (...)  [37 words]   [FREE]

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