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algiers
POLISARIO BOSS MEETS BOUTEFLIKA
   The head of Polisario, Mohamed Abdelaziz, was received along with his right-hand-man by president Abdelaiziz Bouteflika.  (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]
POLITICAL BOSSES CONSULT TOUFIK
   With the May 30 legislative elections looming large, defense minister Mohammed ?  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
OIL STANDOFF
   The Algerian millionaire Djelali Mehri has just launched a project to build a sunflower oil plant at Jijel in eastern Algeria.  (...)  [42 words]   [FREE]

rabat
MANDARI AFFAIR: NO EXTRADITION TO MOROCCO
   Hicham Mandari, a former adviser to king Hassan II, who allegedly worked with a band of counterfeiters to circulate fake Bahrain dinars printed in Argentina on three continents, spent two and a half years in jail in the United States wringing a promise out of France:  (...)  [151 words]   [$2,1]
ACCORDING TO ALGIERS, RABAT HAS RECEIVED F-16s
   The Algerian secret service states that Morocco has indeed received 20 American F-16 fighter aircraft as a gift from Saudi Arabia.  (...)  [81 words]   [$2,1]
PROBLEMS WITH MADRID
   Barring any unforeseen developments, Morocco's ambassador to Madrid, Abdesslam Baraka, who was recalled last October, won't be returning to the Spanish capital until summer.  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
FRENCH TARGETED IN KARACHI LIKE GERMANS IN GHRIBA
   Investigators believe that French technicians from the warship constructor Direction des Constructions Navales were deliberately targeted this week in an attack in Karachi, as were Germans in April in the bombing of the synagogue in Ghriba.  (...)  [59 words]   [$2,1]
HELICOPTER CRASH AN ACCIDENT OR ATTACK?
   Speculation is increasing in government and diplomatic circles on the origin of the crash of a military helicopter at Medjez El Bab some 60 km north-west of Tunis on May 1 that killed 12 senior officers, including the army chief-of-staff Abdelaziz Skik.  (...)  [136 words]   [$2,1]
ORASCOM A LITTLE SHORT OF CASH
   The Egyptian group Orascom, which won the bidding for Tunisia's second GSM network, may have to relinquish it because of financial difficulties undoubtedly linked to the problems of the Palestinian Authority that was involved in its GSM projects in Tunisia and Algeria.  (...)  [157 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
MOROCCO
TABACALERA
   TABACALERA, the Spanish partner of Altadis, fears that the coming privatization of Morocco's Regie des Tabacs could fall victim to political horse-trading.  (...)  [52 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
VIVENDI ENVIRONNEMENT
   VIVENDI ENVIRONNEMENT is waiting for a reply from the Moroccan authorities to its offer to buy Electricidade de Portugal's 29% stake in Redal.  (...)  [72 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
BROWN, VENCE & ASSOCIATES
   BROWN, VENCE & ASSOCIATES, an American engineering consultancy, is to conduct a feasibility study for the greater Casablanca region on the management of solid waste in Casablanca.  (...)  [61 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
CNTS
   CNTS, Centre National Algerien des Techniques Spatiales, has issued a call for bids for a technical study of its project to build a unit to manufacture small satellites.  (...)  [31 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
SNC-LAVALIN
   SNC-LAVALIN has won a $90 million contract to conduct an emergency program to supply Algiers with drinking water.  (...)  [22 words]   [FREE]
LIBYA
BLUE PANORAMA
   BLUE PANORAMA, an Italian airline, has joined forces with the Libyan government to launch an carrier named Afriqiyah Airways to serve several African capitals from Tripoli.  (...)  [30 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
FINANCE MINISTRY
   FINANCE MINISTRY in Algeria has bought most of the debt of Algerian farmers to BADR, Banque de l'Agriculture et du Developpement Rural.  (...)  [44 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
TUNISIA
MONCEF BARCOUS
   Member of the executive bureau of the UTICA employers association, Moncef Barcous, personal tailor of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, is a rising star at the Carthage Palace:  (...)  [48 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
BRUNO PERDU
   A former technical adviser to out-going French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine, Bruno Perdu, has been named France's consul general in Rabat in succession to Serge Mucetti.  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
DRISS BASRI
   The late king Hassan II's interior minister, Driss Basri, is thinking seriously of making a political comeback.  (...)  [66 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
KHALID OUDGHIRI
   A graduate from a prestigious engineering college in Paris and the Institut Francais du Petrole, Khalid Oudghiri has joined the banking group BNP Paribas in the French capital.  (...)  [86 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
HOUADRIA GHANIA
   Post and telecommunications minister Mohamed Maghlaoui has named Houadria Ghania as head of Algerie Poste.  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]

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