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algiers
WORLD BANK GUARANTEE FOR BNP DEAL IN ALGERIA
   The International Finance Corp is ready to provide a $20 million guarantee for operations by Banque Nationale de Paris in Algeria.  (...)  [159 words]   [$2,1]
ARAB SYMPOSIUM ON POWER INDUSTIES
   Over 75 firms, including 30 foreign concerns, took part in the 3rd symposium on power industries in the Arab countries in Algiers between Nov.  (...)  [98 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
"RECOVERY UNDERWAY"
   The "executive summary" of the IMF’s Consultation Staff Report on Morocco’s economic condition starts with the encouraging claim that "recovery is underway.  (...)  [145 words]   [$2,1]
BOUKHARI TAKES ON DRISS BASRI
   A statement by an ex police intelligence agent on Nov.  (...)  [192 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
BEN ALI ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL FOR FOURTH MANDATE
   To make everyone happier with the idea he will stand for a fourth presidential mandate in 2004, president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali announced on Nov.  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
KADHAFI THE FIRST ANTI-BIN LADEN MILITANT
   Muammar Kadhafi’s secret service was the first to try to track down Osama Bin Laden when the latter was living in Khartoum and his network counted numerous Libyans opposed to Kadhafi, the latest issue of Intelligence Online (Indigo Publications) has revealed.  (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
ALGERIA
JBIC
   JBIC, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, is to lend $178 million to Sonatrach to help it develop the Ourhoud oilfield.  (...)  [24 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
APICORP
   APICORP, the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation, and TAIC, The Arab Investment Company, have awarded Sonatrach a $50 million loan.  (...)  [37 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
ROYAL AIR MAROC
   ROYAL AIR MAROC inaugurated a direct service on Nov. 12 between Paris and Essaouira, hometown of Andre Azoulay, adviser to king Mohammed VI.  (...)  [53 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
EL KHALIFA BANK
   EL KHALIFA BANK, KHALIFA AIRWAYS and KRC KHALIFA RENT-A-CAR have teamed up with Algeria’s national solidarity ministry in an operation to send food, mattresses and blankets to areas hit by devastating floods.  (...)  [35 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOOPEMENT
   AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOOPEMENT is to put up Ffr196.7 million ($28.  (...)  [28 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
NET’EXPO
   NET’EXPO, a new information technology show being staged in Marseilles between Dec.  (...)  [28 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
ISPAT-TEBESSA
   ISPAT-TEBESSA, a new Algerian-Indian venture set up by Ferphos and LNM Holdings, has increased its registered capital from one million to 613 million dinar ($419 million)  (...)  [28 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
   EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK is to award a 225 million Euro ($202 million) loan to Algeria for a water supply scheme.  (...)  [24 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
NAVISION
   NAVISION, a consultancy that works with small and medium sized companies, is opening a regional office in Casablanca to cover the Maghreb, Mashrek and sub-Saharan Africa.  (...)  [30 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
ALGERIA/FRANCE
CHARLES PELLEGRINI
   Ex-police superintendent Charles Pellegrini, a former boss of anti-terrorism operations in France who now works in the private sector as an international consultant, has won a contract worth around Ffr5 million ($715,000) to oversee security on the first section of the new OZ2 oil pipeline linking Haoud El Hamra to the Arzew terminal.  (...)  [87 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/FRANCE
PIERRE HABIB DELONCLE
   Times have turned tough for Pierre Habib Deloncle, former treasurer of an association of supporters of president Jacques Chirac.  (...)  [114 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
BECHIR TEKKARI
   Born at Ksibet Mediouni in the Sahel and holding a PhD in law and advanced degree in political science, justice minister Bechir Bekkari won a lot of applause in business circles during a meeting of corporate chiefs in Sousse on Nov.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
BOUALEM M’RAKACH
   In appointing Boualem M’rakach as new president, the Confederation Algerienne du Patronat, the most powerful of the three Algerian employers associations, voted in fact for continuity.  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]

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