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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 593 - 03/06/2003

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Editor in Chief

Paris/Algiers: Secret Business of Corporate Bosses

On the sidelines of president Chirac's visit the bosses of leading French corporations weren't there purely for courtesy reasons. (...) [347 words] [$4.7]

algiers

WHO WILL REPLACE PRIME MINISTER?

The two most evident candidates to take over from Ali Benflis (FLN) as prime minister are Said Barkat (FLN) and Cherif Rahmani (RND). (...) [125 words] [$1.5]

WILL KHALIFA AIRWAYS RESCUE KHALIFA BANK?

Rafik Khalifa, owner of the beleaguered Khalifa group, is reportedly thinking selling off assets of Khalifa Airways and of transferring its traffic rights to Air Algerie and Aigle Azur to save his banking establishment, Khalifa Bank, that has been put under administration by the Banque d'Algerie. (...) [112 words] [$1.5]

IMF'S ASSESSMENT FOR 2002

While the IMF is globally positive about Algeria's economic performance in 2002 –inflation under control, a trade surplus –it pointed to a number of problems in its annual report on the country. (...) [151 words] [$1.5]

rabat

FIAT GIVEN SIX MONTH REPRIEVE

In dire straits ever since its sales began to tumble in Morocco (they plunged 13% in 2002 alone), Italy's Fiat group just managed to get the Moroccan government to agree to a six month extension of an agreement it signed in 1995 to build a cheap car in the country. (...) [119 words] [$1.5]

SEMINAR ON FISCALITY

The American Chamber of Commerce teamed up with PriceWaterhouseCoopers to organize a seminar on Feb. (...) [91 words] [$1.5]

tunis

CHANGE IN STORE FOR SECURITY SERVICES?

President Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, who seems to be taking it easy in recent weeks, is reportedly planning new changes in the country's security services. (...) [88 words] [$1.5]

LOW SALARIES FOR LOCALLY-EMPLOYED EMBASSY STAFF?

A right-wing senator, Christian Cointat, questioned foreign minister Dominique de Villepin about what he claimed was a big gap in pay between locally-hired staff at the French embassy in Tunisia and similar staff at France's embassy in Morocco. (...) [61 words] [$1.5]

A ?PRIVATIZED? MARINA?

To take pressure off the marina at Sidi Bousaid, where the great and the good of Tunisia tie up their yachts, president Ben Ali has decided to build a special harbor in the Tunis-La Goulette port. (...) [48 words] [$1.5]

2003-2004, FLURRY OF INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS.

Lacking tourists, Tunisia will have to settle in the coming two years for a host of international events. (...) [67 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	BALISTON
	BALISTON, a sporting goods company owned by Karim Oumnia, an Algerian-born businessman who accompanied Jacques Chirac on his state visit to Algeria between March 2-4, is planning to build a textiles plant near Algiers. (...) [53 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	KPMG
	KPMG is auditing the Cevital group owned by Algerian tycoon Issad Rebrab as a prelude to a possible listing on the stock exchange. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	CASAFORMA
	CASAFORMA, a Spanish company, has been deprived of a contract for the construction of 672 housing units in the western suburbs of Algiers which it won in early 2002. (...) [53 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	SOUFI
	SOUFI, which controls the CIAR insurance company and holds the Fiat dealership, is discreetly negotiating with the government on taking over the Fatia car assembly project that was dropped a few years ago. (...) [37 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	COFIDEV INC
	COFIDEV INC and the Quebec consultant Gerald Brassard are currently working in Algeria on a project by the Algerian industry ministry to inject fresh impetus into industrial zones in the country. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/EUROPEAN UNION
	EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
	EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK (EIB), which is putting up 225 million Euros towards a project to transfer water from the Taksebt dam in Algeria, has sent an expert to Algiers to examine bids by two firms competing for the work: (...) [56 words] [$1.5]

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