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algiers
LAMARI MOUNTS NEW AIR INTERVENTION FORCE
   Following trips to Ukraine, China, South Africa and the Czech Republic, Algeria’s chief-of-staff Mohammed Lamari is now set to start seriously upgrading Algeria’s air force.  (...)  [118 words]   [$2,1]
SQUABBLE WITHIN GIA-GSPC
   In his bastion in the eastern part of Algeria around Jijel and Annaba, Hassan Hattab, head of the Groupe Salafist de Prediction et de Combat (GSPC:  (...)  [148 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
KING TO NAME "ADMINISTRATIVE MEDIATOR
   King Mohammed VI has opened a "Diwan Al Madhalim" (Grievances Office) as part of his campaign to raise moral standards in public life.  (...)  [69 words]   [$2,1]
Americans Win Solid Waste Work
   The Princeton-based company Edgeboro International/Ecomed has won a key contract to process solid waste at Fes.  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
MARSEILLES BACKS E-COMMERCE
   Marseilles is looking for ways to offer its expertise in a project to build an information technology center at Bouznika in the Casablanca region.  (...)  [70 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
DEADLINE FOR GMS BIDS AGAIN PUT BACK
   Tunisia’s telecommunications ministry has put back the deadline for bids for Tunisia’s second GSM network by a month, to Feb.  (...)  [77 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
A DST Official Testifies in "Vulcain" Case
   A senior official from France’s DST testified before an examining magistrate, Catherine Barbotin-Levy, in Paris on Dec.  (...)  [82 words]   [$2,1]
SAIF EL ISLAM IN OIL BUY-IN
   Col. Muammer Kadhafi’s youngest son, Saif el Islam, is about to invest in the oil industry following a move by the state-owned Oilinvest firm to team up with Britain’s Soco International.  (...)  [117 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
MOROCCO
EURONEXT-PARIS
   EURONEXT-PARIS will send a number of experts to Morocco in the first quarter of next year to assist the Casablanca Stock Exchange.  (...)  [26 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
SNTA
   SNTA, the Societe Nationale Algerienne des Tabacs et Allumettes, which is endeavoring to counter cigarette smuggling, has signed an agreement with a foreign partner to build a $50 million plant to manufacture cigarettes.  (...)  [37 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA/IRAQ
GAS FILLING COMPANY
   GAS FILLING COMPANY, an Iraqi firm, signed a contract to import 500,000 gas cylinders from EBAG, a gas bottling company based in Batna, Algeria.  (...)  [39 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA/FRANCE
AIR LIB
   AIR LIB has received a go-ahead from the French transportation ministry to inaugurate a regular service between Paris and Algiers and between Marseilles and Algiers.  (...)  [39 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
WINCOR NIXDORF
   WINCOR NIXDORF, a Moroccan affiliate of the German group which specializes in computer solutions and in serving the bank industry and retail chains, has opened a B to B transaction website.  (...)  [66 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
INRH
   INRH, Morocco’s fisheries research institute, has won a 1.12 billion yen ($8.  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT
   AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT will put up 12 million Euros ($10.  (...)  [34 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
YAL’LLA TOURS USA
   YAL’LLA TOURS USA, an American tour operator, organized a trip to Morocco by 26 travel agents from Oregon, Washington, Colorado and California in a bid to promote Morocco as a tourist destination.  (...)  [35 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
UNITED STATES
WILLIAM STANTON
   Although the under-secretary of state for the Middle East, William Burns, traveled alone when making his first tour of North Africa, he has two experts on the region working alongside him in Washington.  (...)  [156 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/RUSSIA
AMAR ABBA
   In his post as Algeria’s new envoy to Russia, Amar Abba will play a key role in building up bilateral relations.  (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO/UNITED NATIONS
OMAR HILALE
   Morocco’s new ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, who will keep a close eye on the Western Sahara issue, is a familiar face at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.  (...)  [83 words]   [$2,1]

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