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algiers
SURPRISE PACKAGE FOR BOUTEFLIKA VISIT
   To lend a "historical" dimension to president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's visit to France between June 16-18 the two sides are preparing a number of major announcements.  (...)  [128 words]   [$2,1]
FIVE SENATORS TEST THE WATERS
   Algerian officials who fear demonstrations during Bouteflika's state visit to Paris sent a group of five senators from the RND, FLN and Hamas movements to France a few days ago to test the temperature.  (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]
FRENCH FRIGATE IN ALGIERS
   The French missile-launching frigate La Motte Picquet put in at Algiers, the first French warship to do so in Algeria since 1989 and in Algiers since 1985.  (...)  [109 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
IN THE KING'S WAKE
   On the sidelines of king Mohamed VI's visit to Washington in the third week of June, a delegation of Moroccan businesmen will visit New York, San Francisco and Chicago between June 26-27 under the auspices of the Morocco-US Council on Trade and Investment.  (...)  [105 words]   [$2,1]
MOURAD CHERIF PLACES HIS MEN
   Mourad Cherif is continuing to appoint his stalwarts to top jobs in affiliates of ONA.  (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]
TANGIERS, SUMMER CAPITAL
   During a recent trip to Tangiers, Mohamed VI asked the city's prefect, whose residence lies just above his palace, to take himself elsewhere.  (...)  [70 words]   [$2,1]
TANGIERS AS FREE TRADE ZONE
   The new, 345 hectare free trade zone in Tangiers is faring well.  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
FARMERS IN DIRE STRAITS
   According to a survey by Morocco's association of fruit and vegetable producers, 6,000 of the nation's 25,000 farmers have gone bankrupt since the association agreement between Morocco and the European Union came into effect in March.  (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
NEWCOMERS WELCOME AT CASABLANCA STOCK EXCHANGE
   Performing poorly of late, the Casablanca stock exchange is doing its utmost to lure foreign investment funds.  (...)  [75 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
TUNISIA
MGI COURIER TUNISIE
   MGI COURIER TUNISIE, a French group that manufactures electrical and electronic components for the car industry, has just opened a new production unit at Mateur in Tunisia.  (...)  [36 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
BRICK WATER
   BRICK WATER, a Canadian mining company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Algeria to mine the Oued Amizour lead and zinc deposit in Bejaia wilaya.  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITANIA/TUNISIA
TUNISIA TELECOM
   TUNISIA TELECOM and Somital, an affiliate of Mohamed Bouamatou, head of Mauritania's employers federation CGEM, has won a $28 million cellular telephone contract in Mauritania under the nose of France Telecom.  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]
SWITZERLAND
SWISSAIR
   SWISSAIR can't re-open its service between Zurich and Algiers for the moment for want of available aircraft.  (...)  [40 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE/LIBYA
PEUGEOT
   PEUGEOT is returning to Libya. Over 450 of its 406 model were ordered during the Tripoli trade fair compared to around 100 in normal years.  (...)  [48 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/UNITED STATES
COCA COLA
   COCA COLA has given a franchise to International Drinks Co., a private Algerian company headed by Djamel Ouinez, to manufacture soft drinks under the Schweppes trademark.  (...)  [55 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
COLACEM
   COLACEM, industrial affiliate of Italy's Financo group, has just bought the Jebel Jelloud cement plant in Tunisia (Societe des Ciments Artifiiciels) for 50 million dinars.  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
FRANCE/MOROCCO
FREDERIC GRASSET
   Maghreb Confidential understands that the current head of protocol at the French foreign office, Frederic Grasset, will shortly be named French ambassador to Morocco in succession to Michel de Bonnecorse, who is returning to Paris with no other post immediately in sight.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
JOSEPH-GEORGE BERDUGO
   The secretary-general of the Alliance France-Maroc has just published an angry statement saying he will suspend his activites for as long as the present Moroccan ambassador to Paris remains in his post.  (...)  [113 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/TUNISIA
PIERRE PASQUA
   Son of former French interior minister Charles Pasqua, who remains attached to Morocco, Pierre Pasqua has just rented a large home in Sidi Bousaid.  (...)  [33 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE/TUNISIA
TAOUFIK BEN BRIK
   The publishing house La Decouverte will issue a book containing articles by journalist-writer Taoufik Ben Brik early this month.  (...)  [86 words]   [$2,1]

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