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Gaelle Arenson
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The ?Hidden Message? from Army Men
A letter of grievances that a group of ?free officers? in Morocco's Armed Forces sent to king Mohammed VI – and the foreign press—late last week contained several hidden messages. (...)   [333 words]   [$7]

algiers
SOUTH AFRICA'S ABSA SNUBBED BY ALGERIANS
   With president Thabko Mbeki arriving in Algiers for a meeting of the joint South African-Algerian committee, South African bankers are disappointed, to say the least, over the fate of a partnership accord signed last year between South Africa's ABSA and the Algerian banks BEA, BNA and Khalifa for projects involving the Entreprise National Algerienne d'Exploitation des Mines d'Or (ENOR).  (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]
AN ?ASSIMILATED? ALGERIAN WEEKLY
   Bilal Thaminy and three French members of Amnesty International have decided to put out a weekly named France-Algerie in response to an incident last year when the French national anthem was booed by young North African youths during a football game between France and Algeria in Paris.  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]

rabat
QOTBI RECEIVES DE VILLEPIN
   During an official visit to Morocco, French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin is due to discuss the ?  (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
WORLD BANK SETS UP SHOP IN MARSEILLES
   It was only at the last minute that the president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, learned of the initiative of his enterprising North Africa/Middle East director, Jean-Louis Sarbib, to set up a new office of the World Bank in Marseilles.  (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]
POLITICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE GROOMS BOSSES.
   The Political Sciences Institute in Paris is going to send some of its teaching staff to help a private Moroccan training firm, IS FORCE, coach senior officials (finance ministry, customs service, OCP, ONEP, ONDA) and executives from private firms (BMCE, Brasseries du Maroc, Maphar) .  (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]

tunis
PRAISE FROM IMF CHIEF KOHLER
   During a trip to Tunis, Horst Kohler, president of the International Monetary Fund, had a lot of nice things to say about the way Tunisia runs its economy, declaring the current rate of the Tunisian dinar to be ?  (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]

tripoli
FRENCH BUSINESS IN A TIZZY
   French businessmen flocked around Libyan officials at a meeting organized by the Chambre de Commerce Internationale de Paris (CCIP) to capitalize on French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin's visit to Muammer Kadhafi in Tripoli on Oct.  (...)  [263 words]   [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS
LIBYA
TOTALFINAELF
   TOTALFINAELF is pinning a lot of hope on its Libyan fields.  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
KARTHAGO
   KARTHAGO, a group owned by Belhassen Trabelsi, appears to be growing by the day.  (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
CEVITAL
   CEVITAL, an Algerian group owned by the millionaire Isaad Rebrab, has hired an audit and accounting firm to help bring its operations up to international standards so that it can attract foreign investors.  (...)  [53 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
MONTE PASCHI DI SIENNA
   MONTE PASCHI DI SIENNA, a Franco-Italian bank that specializes in managing assets for wealthy individuals and companies is opening an affiliate in Algeria.  (...)  [27 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO/RUSSIA
RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY
   RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY (RKA) signed a memorandum of understanding last week with the Centre Royal Marocain de Teledetection Spatiale during a visit of king Mohammed VI to Russia and the establishment of a ?  (...)  [45 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO
AMICA
   AMICA, a Moroccan automotive industry association, signed a partnership accord with the Messe Frankfurt, which organizes the annual Automechanika show in Frankfurt.  (...)  [41 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
ISRAEL/MOROCCO
LEV LEVIEV
   On the heels of Moroccan king Mohammed VI's official visit to Moscow, the Russian-Israeli diamond trader Lev Leviev traveled discreetly by business jet to Morocco last week.  (...)  [116 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
HICHAM MANDARI
   The head of Morocco's domestic security agency, Hamidou Laanigri turned up in Paris recently to discuss the case of Hicham Mandari, a former adviser to king Hassan II implicated in the ?  (...)  [81 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/LIBYA
FRANCOISE RUDETZSKI
   The head of an association that represents the victims of terrorist attacks, SOS Attentats, Francoise Rudetzski, who has been badgering Muammer Kadhafi and his cousin, Abdallah Senoussi, for years concerning the downing of a DC10 airliner operated by UTA, has enrolled as a student for courses this year at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Securite Interieure (IHESI :  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA/FRANCE
MOURAD MEDELCI
   Like interior minister Yazid Zehrouni a year ago, Mourad Medelci, a former Algerian trade minister who is close to Larbi Belkheir and a group made up of Chakib Khelil, Hamid Temmar and Mohamed Terbeche, is being sounded out about becoming Algeria's new ambassador to France.  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]

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