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algiers
THE SAHARA A PARADISE FOR INVESTORS
   If there's any top place to invest in Algeria it's obviously the oil-producing part of the Sahara in the country's south.  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIANS OUT IN FORCE IN LYONS
   Algeria will be particularly well represented at the 83rd International Lyons Fair to be held between March 16-26.  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
LEAKS AT FINANCE MINISTRY?
   Finance minister Fathallah Oualalou is concerned about leaks on a number of sensitive issues that appear to emanate from his department.  (...)  [128 words]   [$2,1]
RECORD BUDGET DEFICIT IF MAROC TELECOM WERE EXCLUDED
   The mathematics are simple: the partial privatization of Maroc Telecom (MT) could limit Morocco's budget deficit to 3% of GDP next year compared to 6% --or a record $2.  (...)  [92 words]   [$2,1]
FRENCH SENATORS AT LAAYOUNE
   The head of the France-Morocco friendship society in the French Senate, Paulette Brisepierre, led a delegation of French legislators to the "Saharan provinces," in late November.  (...)  [84 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
"AA," THE REGIME'S UNBUDGEABLE COMMUNICATOR
   The pet hate of Tunisian journalists, government spokesman Abdewahad Abdallah, who is known in ruling circles simply as "AA", serves as the main "search engine" for information deemed of interest to president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
BEN ALI PLANS FILLIP FOR PRIVATE SECTOR
   President Zine el Abedine Ben Ali is anxious to boost private investment in the economy.  (...)  [113 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
KADHAFI'S ELDEST SON IN "EXILE" IN U.K
   Mohammed Kadhafi, the son of col. Muammer Kadhafi by his first wife, set up home in London on Nov.  (...)  [196 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
ALGERIA
BP, ENDESA
BP, ENDESA (Spain), ENI (Italy), GAZ DE FRANCE, and TotalFinaElf have been chosen by Sonatrach and Spanish oil company CEPSA to take stakes in MEDGAZ, a company set up to study and promote the construction of a pipeline between Algeria and Europe via Spain.  (...)  [72 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES, a Chinese firm specializing in telecommunications, will play host to Algerian posts and telecommunications minister Mohamed Majhlaoui at its headquarters at Schenzen near Hong Kong after the Asia Telecom 2000 show.  (...)  [43 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
ENTERPRISE OIL
ENTERPRISE OIL, a British oil company, is to operate in Morocco on the Cap Draa Haute Mer exploration permit which it has just acquired, Africa Intelligence Energy (Indigo Publications) has learned.  (...)  [59 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
AIR ALGERIE
AIR ALGERIE is thinking of selling stakes in its business to investors and is seeking an accountancy firm to conduct an audit.  (...)  [31 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
CONDOR UND NECKERMANN
CONDOR UND NECKERMANN, Germany's second-ranking tour operator, has just signed an agreement with Morocco to build a big, 960 bed resort at Agadir.  (...)  [32 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
CERIC
CERIC, a French firm specializing in engineering and construction material, is negotiating with privarte interests in Algeria to construct five brickyards in the country.  (...)  [43 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
STROITTRANSGLAS
STROITTRANSGLAS, a Russian engineering company, and the Algerian-U.S. consortium Cosider-Sonatrach/Kellog, Brown & Root, have won two separate contracts to build a 822 km-long pipeline between the Haoudh el Hamra field and the refinery port of Arzew.  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ALGERIA/FRANCE
JACQUES DUMASY
The Algerians are likely to be highly pleased that the new counsellor at the Mission Economique et Financiere (MEF) at the French embassy in Algiers is a former department chief at COFACE.  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/FRANCE
YVES BONNET
A new member of the Parti Radical de Gauche (PRG:  (...)  [121 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
NADIA BENJELLOUN
A French-Moroccan academic, political expert and author of two books on the Palestinians, Nadia Benjelloun has been serving for some months as political adviser to Hassan Abouyoub, Morocco's ambassador to France.  (...)  [75 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
SAMMY OUSSEDIK
Having long lived in the shadow of Abderrahmane Hadj Nacer, former governor of the Banque Centrale d'Algerie and current chairman of SBFI, an affiliate of Natexis Banques Populaires, Sammy Oussedik has managed to draw in investors to form a new investment bank:  (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]

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