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BOUTEFLIKA SEEKS AID IN U.S

Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika will drop in on Washington on June 12-13 for a working visit aimed at lending fresh impetus to cooperation between the U. (...) [153 words] [$2,1]

PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AIR ALGERIE AND EADS

Air Algerie and the European aeronautics and defense group EADS are currently mulling a "partnership of joint interest" in the maintenance sector. (...) [49 words] [$2,1]

TELEFONICA IN STRONG POSITION FOR SECOND GSM LICENSE

Maghreb Confidential’s sources in Algiers say Spain’s Telefonica Moviles is in a strong position to win Algeria’s second GSM license. (...) [59 words] [$2,1]

TIGHTER TIES WITH U.K

Relations between London and Algiers have improved vastly since British businessmen returned to the Algiers International Trade Fair after an absence of nearly 10 years. (...) [72 words] [$2,1]

rabat

"Professor" Basri Dispenses Lessons

With his picture on the front page and his thoughts spread across three pages inside the Moroccan daily L’Economiste on June 12, Driss Basri, the former irremovable interior minister during Hassan II’s reign, expounded on his pet theme: (...) [119 words] [$2,1]

FIGARO’S MOROCCO SUPPLEMENT

At the bidding of its publisher Yves de Chaisemartin, the Paris daily Le Figaro is preparing a special supplement on Morocco. (...) [67 words] [$2,1]

TOTAL’S OIL PAINTING CONTEST

The French oil group TotalFinaElf recently organized a competition for young painters at Essaouira. (...) [41 words] [FREE]

MOROCCO PARTNER FOR SNECMA

The French ambassador to Morocco, Michel de Bonnecourse, recently stated Morocco would become a "regional platform" for the aeronautics industry. (...) [76 words] [$2,1]

tunis

TLILI CANDATE IN 2004?

Abderrahmane Tlili, president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali’s "sleeping candidate" in the 1999 presidential elections, appears to already be trying to create a "pluralist climate" for the next elections. (...) [62 words] [$2,1]

STEER CLEAR OF "AFFAIRS"

If some human rights lawyers and militants like Sihem Bensedrine, spokesman for the Conseil National pour les Libertes en Tunisie (CNLT) have landed in legal hot water the reason is that they raised sensitive cases like the Banque Franco-Tunisienne (BFT) or imports of tobacco for narghilehs when they appeared on the Arabic-language TV station Al Mustaquilla in London. (...) [62 words] [$2,1]

TOKYO WANTS ASSURANCE ON FISH

The Japanese government wants to ensure that the free trade zone that will shortly be established between Tunisia and the European Union won’t sideline Tokyo on the Tunisian fish market. (...) [60 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	ROLLS ROYCE
	ROLLS ROYCE is negotiating a contract with Algeria’s Khalifa Airways for the supply of engines for the Airbus airliners it recently ordered, Maghreb Confidential understands. (...) [37 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	METRO
	METRO, the big German retail group, played host to a delegation of Moroccan exporters of biological products. (...) [20 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	GEOPHYSIQUE
	GEOPHYSIQUE, a French oil services company, has indicated it could post a loss for the first half of 2001 due to problems with its operations in Morocco’s offshore. (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT
	AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT (AFD) has opened a 150 million Euro ($129 million) credit line for the Oran chamber of commerce to help it bankroll projects in the agri-businesses, chemicals, building and pharmaceutical industries. (...) [49 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	TASSILI AIRLINES
	TASSILI AIRLINES, an Algerian airline owned by Air Algerie and the Sonatrach oil group, has issued an invitation to tender for 21 aircraft ranging from twin-engine airliners to business jets. (...) [33 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	SPIE-CAPAG/SAITEM
	SPIE-CAPAG/SAITEM, a French-Italian consortium, has signed a contract worth 364 million Euros ($313 million) with Sonatrach for the construction of six pumping stations and two terminals for the oil pipeline linking Haoudh El Hamra to Arzew. (...) [41 words] [FREE]


	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
	SOMED
	SOMED, a United Arab Emirates company, is to invest a first installment of 1 billion dirham in Morocco this year for the upgrading of a lead smelter, repair of four trawlers, construction of a holiday village and several hotels in Fes and the restoration of the Sheraton hotel in Casablanca. (...) [53 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	RAIFFEISEN ZENTRAL BANK
	RAIFFEISEN ZENTRAL BANK (RZB) of Austria was scheduled to sign a framework agreement on June 28 for a 30 million Euro ($26 million) loan for the Banque Nationale Algerienne (BNA). (...) [48 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE/TUNISIA
	ABDALLAH BENHAMIDA
	Abdallah Benhamida, a former professor who taught law to Claude Chirac, daughter of French president Jacques Chirac (she is now his communications adviser), reportedly played a key role in paving the way for the supermarket chain Carrefour to start operating in Tunisia. (...) [45 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	JEAN-PAUL DUMONT
	Presently France’s consul general in Liege, Jean-Paul Dumont has just been appointed France’s consul general in Algiers in succession to Philippe Larrieu. (...) [86 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	ALBERT MALLET
	A Moroccan Jew and psychologist, Albert Mallet (whose real name is Elmaleh) and who once ran Radio Shalom in Paris, has become a close associate of former minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement in recent months, serving as his communications adviser. (...) [101 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	SADOK CHAABANE
	President Zine el Abedine Ben Ali is reported to have asked Sadok Chaabane, current higher education minister, to take over as head of the ruling RCD party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) in succession to Abderahim Zouari. (...) [87 words] [$2,1]