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algiers
STRATEGIC ALGIERS/JOBURG LINK
   The visit by South African president Thabo Mbeki to Algiers between Sept.  (...)  [114 words]   [$2,1]
TEMMAR MEETS FRENCH BOSSES
   Hamid Temmar, Algeria's privatization minister and coordinator of reforms, will meet with French businessmen in Paris on Oct.  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
GERMAN TOURISTS IN DEEP SOUTH
   A group of German tour operators and other travel trade specialists visited Hoggar and Tassili in Algeria's deep south last week to examine the possibility of giving tourism a new push in the region in the coming winter season.  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS IN U.S
   A number of North African journalists toured the United States between July 28 and Aug.  (...)  [119 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
BIKES FOR THE OUDAYAS BOYS
   King Mohammed VI who likes to jetski on the Bouregret – a Morocan wag has called him "Sametski", a play on the French words for Your Majesty—has come up with a kind gesture for the "wayward youth" in the Oudayas, a picturesque district haunted by tourists on a bluff that overlooks the river in Rabat.  (...)  [121 words]   [$2,1]
KING REDUCES ELECTRICITY RATES
   Mohammed VI moved to stimulate economic growth on Sept. 25 by decreeing a 17% drop in the price of electricity for industry and farmers.  (...)  [87 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
THINKING AHEAD TO 2004
   The year 2004 is looming particularly large in Tunisia. That's the year when Zine el Abedine Ben Ali will be tempted to call a referendum on whether he can begin a fourth presidential mandate.  (...)  [117 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
GOOD NEWS FROM LOCKERBIE TRIAL
   A former Libyan intelligence operative who defected to the U.S.  (...)  [160 words]   [$2,1]
NEW BRITISH OFFENSIVE
   Five months after the U.K. organized a big trade show in Tripoli, British businessmen have mounted a fresh drive in Libya.  (...)  [82 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
ALGERIA
THOMSON CSF AIR SYS
   THOMSON CSF AIR SYS has just signed a Ffr200 million ($26 million) contract with the Etablissement National Algerien de la Navigation Aerienne to modernize its air navigation control system.  (...)  [38 words]   [FREE]
TUNISIA
INES FOOD
   INES FOOD has just acquired the Laino firm which produces milk-based goods.  (...)  [76 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
PROFURN
   PROFURN, a South African group, is to buy a 30% stake in BATAM in order to compete with the big Promodes clothing chain in North Africa.  (...)  [35 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
ENDESA
   ENDESA, Spain's leading power utility, has reportedly been chosen by ONE to install power-generating windmills in Tangiers and Tarfaya provinces.  (...)  [29 words]   [FREE]
SPAIN/MOROCCO
HISPANO CARROCERA
   HISPANO CARROCERA, the top car designer in Spain, has opened its first affiliate in Casablanca, Carrosserie Hispano-Maghreb, in partnership with Scania Maroc.  (...)  [31 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
GROUP BENJELLOUN
   GROUP BENJELLOUN has changed its name to Finance.Com. The change has gone hand in hand with a diversification of its businesses in recent years which includes:  (...)  [55 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
MEDITELCOM
   MEDITELCOM, a Moroccan-Spanish-Portuguese consortium which operates the second GSM license in Morocco, has just signed an agreement with the computer and engineering services firm Omnidata that provides for the development of a WAP system.  (...)  [44 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
AGEP
   AGEP, the Agence Algerienne de Gestion des Eaux Potables, will shortly choose the winner of a tender for Constantine's water network.  (...)  [50 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ALGERIA
LARBI BELKHEIR
   Once the all-powerful chief of staff to president Chadli, Larbi Belkheir has returned to president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's office as all-powerful chief of staff.  (...)  [116 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/FRANCE
LAYACHI YAKER
   A former trade minister under president Houri Boumediene, Layachi Yaker, is being sounded out as a potential ambassador to Paris.  (...)  [75 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/EUROPE
PIERRE GALLAND
   With a meeting between Morocco and the Polisario Front on the Western Sahara scheduled for Berlin on Sept.  (...)  [87 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MAURITANIA
MAOUYA OULD SID'AHMED TAYA
   The Mauritanian president, Maouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, has just sold the only home he owns in France.  (...)  [86 words]   [$2,1]

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