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algiers
KHELIL TALKS WITH RUSSIANS
   The Russian oil company Stroytransgaz wants to beef up its presence in Algeria.  (...)  [126 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA TO SIGN ANTI-TERRORISM ACCORD WITH EU
   According to reliable sources in Brussels, a clause providing for "anti-terrorism cooperation" will be included in the Algeria/EU association agreement that is to be initialed in Brussels on Dec.  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
WORLD BANK HITS OUT
   Jean-Louis Sarbib, the World Bank’s vice president for the Middle East and North Africa, slammed Morocco for its economic footdragging during a conference at John Hopkins University in the U.  (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
SECRET SERVICE TAKES EIGHT MOROCCAN "AFGHANS" INTO CUSTODY
   A dozen Moroccan secret service officials traveled to Islamabad last week to meet their counterparts from Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and take delivery of eight Moroccan "Afghans" who had been captured in the "tribal zone" on the Pakistani-Afghan border.  (...)  [75 words]   [$2,1]
LONDON SEEKS TO INCREASE INFLUENCE
   The United Kingdom’s drive to win business in Morocco is going hand in hand with a cultural offensive.  (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
BANK DEBTS
   Despite a vast overhaul of Tunisia’s banks that has enabled them to discreetly wipe out some debts, a lot of bad debt remains on the industry’s books.  (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
A SECURITY SERVICE CAREER FOR SAADI KADHAFI
   In response to protests over the incarceration of the powerful boss of Libyan external security and Muammer Kadhafi’s brother-in-law Abdallah Senoussi for a week for "corruption," Kadhafi is said to have replied that Libyan justice was "independent.  (...)  [81 words]   [$2,1]
Scores ff Libyan "Afghans" Killed at Qala-I-Janghi Prison
   The Libyan "Afghans" who fought with the Taliban in the Mazar I Sharif region are said to have suffered heavy losses in the mutiny that turned into a massacre at the Qala I Janhi prison.  (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
ALGERIA
BNP PARIBAS MILAN
   BNP PARIBAS MILAN has agreed to lend Sonatrach 53 million Euros ($47.  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
ADDAX & ORYX LTD
   ADDAX & ORYX LTD signed a partnership pact with Morocco’s Somepi group to distribute lubricants in Benin, Senegal and Ivory Coast.  (...)  [50 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
NOUVELLES FRONTIERES
   NOUVELLES FRONTIERES invited 460 travel agents to Marrakech in late November for a training seminar.  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
The EUROPEAN UNION
   The EUROPEAN UNION is to disburse a new installment of 140 million Euros ($124 million) for Algerian transportation, education and environment projects as part of its Mediterranean Development (MEDA) program.  (...)  [75 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
SOL MELIA
   SOL MELIA, the Spanish hotel group, has reportedly pulled out of Morocco.  (...)  [47 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
ALCATEL
   ALCATEL has signed a contract with Tunisie Telecom to boost the capacity of its fixed telephone network by over 100,000 lines.  (...)  [43 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
ALGERIA/FRANCE
FATHI MESTIRI
   The chairman of the new Algerian bank BNP Paribas El Djazair (which is wholly owned by BNP Paribas and has a registered capital of 500 million dinar), Fathi Mestiri, is highly familiar with Arab countries.  (...)  [187 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
KHALIL HACHIMI IDRISSI
   A new French-language daily newspaper has appeared on newsstands in Morocco, Aujourd’hui le Maroc.  (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
AICHA KADHAFI
   Like her older brother "Mohammed" who chairs the "Kadhafi Association for Human Rights," Aicha Kadhafi, the only daughter of Muammer Khadafi, has set up a welfare association to finance humanitarian programs in Libya.  (...)  [55 words]   [$2,1]

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