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Archive n° 578 - 11/14/2002

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Jettou's Hands Tied for Urgent Changes

Political horse-trading in the formation of the new government (each party was entitled to present a list of four names for each portfolio to the king) prevented prime minister Driss Jettou from placing his own minister-entrepreneur favorites in top jobs. (...) [340 words] [$2,1]

algiers

ROARING TRADE IN USED CARS

Algeria's new budget has been kind to sellers of used cars. (...) [63 words] [$2,1]

COFACE LOWERS COUNTRY RISK

Paris has sent a strong signal to Algiers after its ? (...) [104 words] [$2,1]

BUSINESS CIRCLES MOBILIZE FOR CHIRAC VISIT

The Franco-Algerian business community is hard at work preparing for French president Jacques Chirac's visit to Algeria early next year. (...) [89 words] [$2,1]

rabat

Jettou's Hands Tied for Urgent Changes

SECRET REPORT ON ?MOROCCAN AFGHANS.?

No sooner had Mustapha Sahel taken up his function as Morocco's new interior minister than he was presented with a secret report on radical fundamentalists movements in the country. (...) [108 words] [$2,1]

SECOND TELEPHONE LICENSE STALLED?

The time has long past when Vivendi Universal would spend millions on buying into Maroc Telecom. (...) [145 words] [$2,1]

tunis

ARMY IN FULL FAVOR

Since the attack on the Ghriba synagogue the Tunisian army has once again found itself in command of Tunisia's security system. (...) [154 words] [$2,1]

SOUR NOTE FROM WORLD BANK

The Carthage Palace wasn't too happy about the latest press release from the World Bank that was issued along with a $34 million loan to improve living conditions of people residing in mountainous regions in the north-west of the country. (...) [80 words] [$2,1]

FRANCO-TUNISIAN REAL ESTATE SQUABBLE

As we indicated in our last issue, a real estate issue between France and Tunisia will be among the subjects discussed during French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin's visit to Tunis on Nov. (...) [66 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	DANIELI
	DANIELI in Italy is still waiting for a reply from Algiers on its offer to invest in the free trade zone in Bellara in eastern Algeria. (...) [71 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	PHARMAPLAN
	PHARMAPLAN, a German firm specializing in pharmaceutical facilities, is to build a new $35 million production unit for the Algerian multinational Tassili Arab Pharmaceutical Company (Taphco) headed by Ahmed Boulala. (...) [71 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	ADUBOS INTERNATIONAL-ADUBOS DE PORTUGAL LDA
	ADUBOS INTERNATIONAL-ADUBOS DE PORTUGAL LDA has increased its stake in the Moroccan fertilizer company FERTIMA to 22. (...) [21 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	ASMEX
	ASMEX, Association Marocaine des Exportateurs, is organizing a trade mission to Stockholm between Dec. (...) [33 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	RATC
	RATC, the Casablanca transit system, is weighed down by 486 million dirham in debt and can't cope with competition from private operators. (...) [54 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	MAROC SEGEDEMA
	MAROC SEGEDEMA, a company belonging to the Pizzorno group that collects solid waste in the Adal-Ryad district of Rabat, seems to have attracted no complaints from municipal counselors about the quality of its cleaning services. (...) [54 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	UNITED KINGDOM/TUNISIA
	TOM MCNALLY
	The secretary-general of the British-Tunisia All-Party Parliamentary Group, Tom McNally, traveled to Tunis on Nov. (...) [107 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	RITAB CHARQUI
	The head of the new Regional Investment Center at Laayoune, capital of the disputed territory of Western Sahara, Ritab Charqui, was very much in the news last week. (...) [114 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	ZINE ZAHIDI
	Sought by the Moroccan police, the former boss of Credit Immobilier et Hotelier (CIH), Zine Zahidi, is said to have taken refuge near Marbella in Spain. (...) [81 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	ABDESSALAM EL MAZOUGHI
	The Libyan ambassador to Paris, Abdessalam el Mazoughi, was thought for a while to be on his way out but he remains firmly in the inner circle around Aicha Kadhafi, daughter of the Libyan leader. (...) [50 words] [$2,1]