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algiers
DEADLOCK ON SHERATON PROJECT
   Construction work on a new Sheraton hotel at Hassi Messaoud for American oil executives and another at Oran isn't about to begin.  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
TEMMAR MEETING WITH FRENCH BOSSES POSTPONED
   A meeting between Algerian privatization and reforms minister Hamid Temmar with the French employers federation MEDEF and the Chambre Francaise de Commerce et d'Industrie en Algerie (CFIA) that was set for Oct.  (...)  [54 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
MAROC TELECOM'S SUITORS
   Expecting future candidates for a strategic partnership with Maroc Telecom to proceed with due diligence, the Moroccans are working to put the company's financial house in good order.  (...)  [176 words]   [$2,1]
GOODBYE TO SECOND HAND CARS?
   The finance ministry is seriously thinking of increasing customs duties on second hand cars imported from Europe.  (...)  [97 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
NATO VISIT
   Seven NATO ships belonging to the Alliance's permanent naval force in the Mediterranean visited the port of La Goulette 10 km north of Tunis between Sept.  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]
"OFFSHORE" CLINIC
   A highly unusual private clinic is going to be built just a kilometer north of Tunis airport for rich patients from North Africa and the Middle East.  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]
UNEASINESS OVER WORLD BANK REPORT
   The World Bank's report on its "cooperation strategy 2000-2002" with Tunisia is continuing to stir debate at the Carthage Palace.  (...)  [83 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
MAURITANIA
GEODASS
GEODASS, an affiliate of the South African Fugro group, has won a contract worth a little over $2 million from the World Bank to carry out institutional reforms in Mauritania's mining sector.  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
SAMIR
SAMIR and SCP, which manage Morocco's oil refineries, are reported to be technically incapable of processing oil and gas from Talsinnt if the field proves to be commercially viable (see Trends).  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
EURO MAROC ENTREPRISE
EURO MAROC ENTREPRISE appears to be rudderless. The former boss, Michael Langstaff, who had been in charge of the European Commission's program to help Moroccan companies improve their performance, left in early September to tend to his sick father.  (...)  [76 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
BGI-CASTEL
BGI-CASTEL has backed out of its project to buy bottling lines from the breweries of Algiers, Annaba and Oran, as we indicated in late September.  (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
RENAUT
RENAUT, in agreement with the ONA group, has boosted its stake in Renault Maroc from 50 to 80% and has taken over SIAB, exclusive importer of Nissan cars.  (...)  [37 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
FRANCE/TUNISIA
JACQUES LANXADE
Former French ambassador to Tunisia and ex armed forces chief-of-staff admiral Jacques Lanxade may have retired but he hasn't quit the Mediterrean region.  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
RABAH BEN BOUCHTA
Former secretary-general of Morocco's Office National d'Exploration et de Recherche Petroliere (ONAREP), Rabah Ben Bouchta, who has retired, made his geological knowledge of the region available to Lone Star Energy which discovered the Talsinnt oil field.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
SLIM CHIBOUB
Information about the tourism activities of Slim Chiboub, son-in-law of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, that we published in our last issue was wrong on a few points.  (...)  [77 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
FRANCO CIRANNI
Salvatore Leboffe has been replaced as head of Fiat Auto Maroc by Franco Ciranni.  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
UNITED STATES/TUNISIA
ROBIN LYNN RAPHEL
The American ambassador to Tunisia, Mrs. Robin Lynn Raphel, left her job in July after nearly four years in Tunis.  (...)  [72 words]   [$2,1]

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