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algiers
SEMINAR ON ALGERIAN BUSINESS IN PARIS
   Can entrepreneurs thrive in Algeria? That’s the question that bosses of several big Algerian holding companies will endeavor to answer at a seminar staged at the French Senate on Oct.  (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]
BELGIUM’S ECONOMIC PUSH
   Belgian businessmen don’t appear worried over the upsurge in terrorist assaults in Algiers.  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
AIRLINE COMPETITION FOR FRANCE-ALGERIA MATCH
   Khalifa Airways carried the day over Air Algeria by winning a contract to officially sponsor the Algerian team taking part in the Mediterranean Games in Tunis.  (...)  [86 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
DOES DRISS BASRI AIM TO TAKE UP "SAHARA" ISSUE?
   Fired in November, 1999, Driss Basri, former Moroccan interior minister and strongman under Hassan II, has spoken out angrily over the U.  (...)  [115 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
BEN ALI WANTS TO LIVEN UP CAPITAL
   President Zine el Abedine Ben Ali appears to have taken strong exception to the somewhat bloodless modernization of downtown Tunis, particularly from Avenue Habib Bourguiba to the Nov.  (...)  [65 words]   [$2,1]
PRINCE ALBERT HEADS MONACO BUSINESS GROUP
   Around 15 companies from Monaco that operate in the building, finance, logistics, agri-businesses and services sectors paid a visit to Tunisia between Sept.  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]
NEW ACQUISITIONS BY MONOPRIX-MABROUK
   The Monoprix group and its local partner, Marouane Mabrouk, has just bought a big retail store at El Menzah IV from its competitor, Le Passage.  (...)  [61 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
PURGE LOOMS IN OIL INDUSTRY
   In a bid to stamp out what he calls "pervasive corruption," colonel Muammer Kadhafi has named Mohamed al Misrati as justice and security minister.  (...)  [125 words]   [$2,1]
NEW FAMILY ALLIANCE
   Following the misadventures of his three brothers this summer in Italy (Hannibal, Al Mootasem and Al Saadi) that were largely covered in the Italian press, the youngest son of col.  (...)  [127 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
ALGERIA
BOUYGUES OFFSHORE
   BOUYGUES OFFSHORE said its order book stood at 840 million Euros ($756 million) on June 30, a 32% rise over the same period last year, and that it expected a rich harvest of bookings in the second half as well, including a contract for Sonatrach’s project at Mesdar.  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
HYUNDAI ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO.
   HYUNDAI ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO. has joined the race for a $500 million contract from Agip for the construction of a gas plant on the Libyan gas field of Wafa.  (...)  [49 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
TRADE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
   TRADE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY in the U.S. has offered a $200,020 grant to EPA-ANSA, a new town planning establishment at Sidi Abdellah in Algeria, to finance a study on building two waste water treatment centers in the city.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/NIGERIA
TSGP
   TSGP, the Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline Project that involves the construction of a 4,000 km pipeline between Abuja in Nigeria and Beni Saf in Algeria is shortly to be launched.  (...)  [58 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
ONAS
   ONAS, the Office National Tunisien de l’Assainissement, has issued an invitation to bid for work on reinforcing and extending the water supply network in the city of Zaghouan.  (...)  [31 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
MIDEN
   MIDEN, INQUAM TELECOM and MORATEL have responded to a call for bids from Agence Nationale Marocaine des Telecommunications for a license to set up and operate a shared radio-electric network.  (...)  [34 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
WORLD BANK
   WORLD BANK is planning to finance major water projects in Algeria and particularly in the Constantine region.  (...)  [55 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
TUNISIA
MOHAMED MZALI
   Despite discreet appeals from the Carthage palace, former prime minister Mohamed Mzali doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to return to the country before the authorities cancel a jail sentence pronounced against him in 1986 and allow him to recover a home in the Tunis suburbs that had been confiscated.  (...)  [70 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
DRISS JETTOU
   The new managing director of the powerful Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP), Driss Jettou, will stay on in his other functions despite the appointment.  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]

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