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algiers
Temmar, WTO and Americans
   With the date for Algeria’s application to join the World Trade Organization approaching, foreign trade minister Hammid Temmar has mounted a strong campaign to prepare Algeria for the occasion.  (...)  [136 words]   [$2,1]
ORAN OUT IN FORCE IN PHILADELPHIA
   A big delegation of businessmen from the Oran region will take part in the next US/Africa business gathering that the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) is organizing in Philadelphia between Sept.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]
KHALIFA BANKING ON MEDITERRANEAN GAMES
   Algeria is counting on the Mediterranean Games in Tunis in September on helping to brush up its image.  (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
IMF APPEARS OPTIMISTIC
   Against all expectation, the International Monetary Fund provided some encouragement to economic reforms undertaken by king Mohammed VI in its report on its latest mission to Rabat.  (...)  [104 words]   [$2,1]
RABAT: DID KING INVEST IN OIL RESEARCH?
   Hostilities have broken out at Lone Star Energy Corporation (LSEC), a Moroccan company set up by the Texas-based firm Skidmore Energy.  (...)  [173 words]   [$2,1]
MOHAMMED VI IN NOUAKCHOTT NEXT MONTH
   The Moroccan king’s first-ever visit to Mauritania, which was initially scheduled for Sept.  (...)  [81 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
7 A BIG NUMBER FOR BEN ALI
   Tunisian president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali seized power on a November 7, will be 70 years old in 2004 after governing for 17 years and is thinking of standing for election again.  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
New Men in Security and Communications Posts
   President Ben Ali reshuffled his security services this summer.  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
MOROCCO
TDA
   TDA, the U.S. Trade Development Agency, has lent $399,888 to the Office National Marocain de Recherche et d’Exploitation Petrolieres (ONAREP) to carry out a feasibility study on installing a high-tech information system.  (...)  [49 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
CARTHAGO AIRLINES
   CARTHAGO AIRLINES has been launched as Tunisia’s newest charter company by Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
NORDANA LINE
   NORDANA LINE, a Danish shipping company, has opened a new freighter line between the Algerian port of Mostaganem and Houston, Texas.  (...)  [24 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
ONICL
   ONICL, the Office National Marocain Interprofessionnel des Cereales et Legumineuses, has issued two invitations to tender.  (...)  [48 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
TUNISAIR
   TUNISAIR will install a flight simulator center for Airbus airliners of the A-320 family in Tunis in 2003.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
VIP GROUPE
   VIP GROUPE is organizing a 6th international New Information and Communications Technology and Internet fair at the El Aurassi in Algiers between Oct.  (...)  [28 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
ADDL
   ADDL, Agence Algerienne de l’Amelioration et du Developpement du Logement (Housing Improvement Agency) has included CEZY, CSCE (China), Arab Contractors (Egypt), Fond INEX Interexport (Yugoslavia), COSAFORMA (Brazil), GHV Outinord (France) and World Wide (U.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
ALGERIA/FRANCE
YAZID ZERHOUNI
   Maghreb Confidential understands that Algeria’s minister of the interior and local communities, Yazid Zerhouni, has been tapped as new ambassador to Paris.  (...)  [82 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/TUNISIA
FAIZA KEFI
   Tunisia’s new ambassador to France, Faiza Kefi, will take up her posting in Paris on Aug.  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
GILLES PELLETIER
   Head of Proparco, an affiliate of AFD, Gilles Pelletier will travel to Morocco on Sept.  (...)  [59 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
ABDALLAH AGOUAOU
   A former prisoner of the dreaded Tazmamart prison, Abdallah Agouaou, won compensation from a government committee late last year.  (...)  [104 words]   [$2,1]

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