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algiers
"YOUNG BOSSES" BANG ON CNPA DOOR
   The Algerian employers’ association Confederation Nationale du Patronat Algerien (CNPA) will meet on January 29 to elect its new president.  (...)  [125 words]   [$2,1]
NATIONAL COUNCIL TO PROMOTE INVESTMENT
   The Algerian government has just set up a "national investment council" and a "national agency for the promotion of investment" in a bid to attract foreign investment.  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
DIGITAL NETWORK FOR ALGIERS POLICE
   Algeria’s national police force is to be equipped with a digital communication system (dubbed TRUNC) for Algiers and close-lying regions.  (...)  [84 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
MOHAMED VI, USFP’S LEFT WING AND THE SAHARA
   The mandate of the U.N. mission for Western Sahara will come to an end in February and will need to be renewed – or otherwise- by the Security Council.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
DALLAH AL BARAKA WINS CONTROL OF LONE STAR ENERGY
   Oil exploration work on the Talsinnt region will resume shortly.  (...)  [139 words]   [$2,1]
French Philosopher Jet Set Guru in Marrakech
   The new capital of the jet set, Marrakech, seems to have elected French philosopher and film maker Bernard Henri Levy as its guru.  (...)  [116 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
HEAD OF SOUTHERN FRANCE REGION VACATIONS IN TUNIS
   Michel Vauzelle, the highly active president of the Province-Riviera region in southern France, spent a week in Tunisia during the end-of-year holidays to meet with Tunisian officials and talk of boosting cooperation with his region.  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA’S FRENCH "FRIENDS
   Faiza Kefi, Tunisia’s new ambassador to Paris who was given a mandate to improve her country’s human rights image with French public opinion, was able to count a number of Tunisia’s "truest" French friends during a party in the French capital.  (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
MOROCCO
VIVENDI ENVIRONNEMENT
   VIVENDI ENVIRONNEMENT is strongly interested in picking up Electricidade de Portugal’s 29% stake in Redal, the Rabat Power company that holds a 30 year concession to supply water and electricity to the Moroccan capital.  (...)  [55 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
FCE
   FCE, Forum des Chefs d’Entreprises Algerien headed by Omar Ramdane, believes that Algeria’s employers should have been consulted before the government signed an association agreement with the EU that calls for a lowering of tariff barriers.  (...)  [40 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
ENEL
   ENEL of Italy, ITOCHU/IHI (Japan) and SNC LAVALLIN/WEIR WESTGARTH (Canada and U.  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
MICEM
   MICEM, Morocco’s industry, trade, energy and mines ministry, indicated that investment in oil exploration could have topped the $47 million mark in 2001.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
MEDEX PETROLEUM
   MEDEX PETROLEUM, a Tunisian company registered in Cyprus, signed an exploration and development agreement with Sonatrach for the Bordj Omar Idriss field in the Illizi basin.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
ENEL
   ENEL, Italy’s power company, has teamed up with Sonatrach and Wintershall AG (a BASF affiliate) to study the feasibility of a gas pipeline project between Algeria and Europe, via Italy.  (...)  [33 words]   [FREE]
TUNISIA
ROULLIER
   ROULLIER, a French manufacturer of fertilizer, intends to build a $15 million plant at Gabes in Tunisia this year.  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
MAURITANIA
MOHAMED LEMINE OULD N’DIAYANE
   Col. Mohamed Lemine Ould n’Diayane has been named chief-of-staff of Mauritania’s army.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
SHOKRI GHANEM
   The appointment of Shokri Mohammed Ghanem as Libya’s new economy and trade minister on Dec.  (...)  [124 words]   [$2,1]
NORTH AFRICA/FRANCE
CAMILLE CABANA
   President of the Arab World Institute in Paris and a close associate of president Jacques Chirac who uses him often as go-between with Arab capitals, Camille Cabana was promoted to the rank of commander of the Legion of Honor on Jan.  (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]

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