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algiers
AMERICAN BUSINESS KNOCKS AT DOOR
   The Corporate Council on Africa's interest in Algeria certainly isn't waning.  (...)  [206 words]   [$2,1]
DISCREET BACKING FROM WORLD BANK
   A planned reduction in Algeria's budget deficit that will be written into the draft budget which finance minister Abdellatif Benachenhou is preparing can be attributed in large part to the rise in the price of oil.  (...)  [107 words]   [$2,1]
SWISS TRADE MISSION
   The two biggest Swiss industry and employers associations, VOVRORT and USAM, are to lead a Swiss corporate mission to Algeria between May 19-22.  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
TIGHT MONEY CHAMPIONS VS SPENDERS
   The battle lines are drawn between the champions of tight money management headed by finance minister Fathallah Oualalou and the advocates of wider consumer spending led by farm minister Habib El Malki.  (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]
STEP-UP IN AMERICAN LOBBYING
   Morocco now has a second firm to lobby for it in Washington, the Solomon Group, alongside the firm Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein, Taylor & Kolker that was hired specifically to follow the Mandari affair.  (...)  [149 words]   [$2,1]
TEXTILE CRISIS
   During a visit to Morocco, British trade minister Richard Caborn formally brought up the question of Morocco's textile crisis due to the dirham's rise against the Euro.  (...)  [52 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
BOSSES FROM SOUTH MEET EURO COUNTERPARTS
   Hedi Djilani, chairman of the Tunisian employers federation UTICA, announced during a meeting of European and Mediterranean employers that an organization speaking for bosses on the southern bank of the Mediterranean was being set up.  (...)  [205 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
FRANCE/MOROCCO
CFAO
   CFAO from the Pinault group that now concentrates on the automotive industry and pharmaceuticals, is setting up its first operation in Algeria with DIAMAL (official importer of General Motors:  (...)  [115 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
COSUMAR
   COSUMAR, the Office Marocaine de Sucre, has just contracted the Cargill USA group to supply 300,000 tons of brown sugar.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
SONATRACH
   SONATRACH will join the bidding to win a contract to transport and distribute natural gas from the Camisea field in Peru.  (...)  [75 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
GROUP JETTOU
   GROUP JETTOU from Casablanca has just signed a contract to manufacture over 100,000 pairs of shoes for a leading Italian shoe-firm, Stonefly.  (...)  [32 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
FRANCE TELECOM
   FRANCE TELECOM is reportedly in pole position to win a 30% holding in Maroc Telecom.  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ALGERIA/FRANCE
JACQUES JAYET
   An elected official from Grenoble and adviser to that city's mayor, Michel Destot, Jacques Jayet is in charge of the wholesale fruit and vegetable market.  (...)  [61 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
MICHEL VAUZELLE
   The president of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, Michel Vauzelle, met in Marseilles to sign a bilateral cooperation pact with his counterpart from the Tangiers-Tetouan region, Saad el Alami.  (...)  [52 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
JOMAA AL MOARRAFI
   A close associate of Muammer Kadhafi's son Saadi, colonel Jomaa al Moarrafi has just set up a special brigade named the "Kadhafi Brigade" that is composed of youths who will be paid to accompany the leader on his travels abroad and applaud vigorously whenever he airs his thoughts in public.  (...)  [61 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
SABRI ABDALLAH
   Major Khomildi Hamidi, coordinator of Libya's security service and number two man in the regime, has managed to impose captain Sabri Abdallah, a personal friend who hails from his region (Zawai), as head of Libyan Arab Airlines.  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA/PHILIPPINES
ABDUL RAJAB AZZAROUK
   A former Libyan ambassador to the Philippines, Abdul Rajab Azzarouk, who was chosen by the Filipino fundamentalist group Abu Sayyaf to negotiate the release of 21 hostages being held on Jolo island for almost a month, appears closer to the heart of negotiations than had been thought.  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]

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