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Archive n° 609 - 07/03/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

French Business "Tripoli Style"

Doing business in Libya remains a highly tricky endeavour, according to speakers at a "Libya" conclave at the CFCE in Paris on June 26. (...) [358 words] [$7]

algiers

ONDEO IN FOOD AND DRINK DEALS

Infilco, an affiliate of France's Ondeo company (Suez group) that specializes in water purification is making fast inroads into Algeria's food and drink industry, landing yet another contract to supply equipment to Hamoud Boualem, one of the country's leading manufactures of soda-based drinks and other beverages. (...) [92 words] [$2,1]

FRENCH TRANSPORTATION FIRMS RUSH BACK

Air France's resumption of flights between Paris and Algiers on June 28 set off a rush of transportation firms anxious to pick up business in Algeria. (...) [93 words] [$2,1]

rabat

RABAT PICKS MILLER & CHEVALIER

Maghreb Confidential understands that the Moroccan government has hired the services of the U. (...) [109 words] [$2,1]

OUALALOU HITS JACKPOT

It wasn't $200 million that finance minister Fathallah Oualalou succeeded in raising when he toured European capital markets in late June but rather $400 million. (...) [78 words] [$2,1]

RABAT NEW EIB HUB IN NORTH AFRICA

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has chosen Morocco, the prime beneficiary of MEDA assistance between 1995-2002 (1 billion Euros), as its new regional headquarters. (...) [81 words] [$2,1]

MAROC-SOIR TAKES OVER SONIR PRINTING WORKS

Working in ever closer conjunction with French press groups like L'Express and Le Figaro, Moroccan news and printing concerns are consolidating. (...) [65 words] [$2,1]

tunis

AMERICAN BEEFS ABOUT BUSINESS IN TUNISIA

The Americans still haven't gotten over Tunisia's decision to allow a first Carrefour supermarket to open in the country in 2001 two years after the government ordered the Pizza Hut restaurant to close down. (...) [153 words] [$2,1]

tripoli

NEGOTIATING WITH FOREIGN-BASED DISSIDENTS?

Contacts have been made between the Libyan government and its opponents living abroad at the initiative of Saif al Islam, son and likely successor of Muammer Kadhafi. (...) [74 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	WESTERN SAHARA
	TOTAL
	TOTAL has reduced its operations off the coast of Western Sahara, according to Africa Energy Intelligence (Indigo Publications). (...) [39 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	BERTRAND
	BERTRAND, a French brewery, is interested in the privatization of Algerian breweries. (...) [42 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	AIRBUS INDUSTRIE
	AIRBUS INDUSTRIE appears on the inside track to win a $700 million contract from Air Algerie for eight airliners, including five wide-body aircraft. (...) [48 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	LUCAS NULLE
	LUCAS NULLE, a German firm based in Kerpen-Sindorf, is to supply electronic and automatic equipment for research at Skikda university in eastern Algeria. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	LIBYA
	SIDEM
	SIDEM, an affiliate of Veolia Water (formerly Vivendi Water) that specializes in desalination, is installing a desalination unit running on solar energy at Ras Ejder in Libya. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	SNTF
	SNTF, the Algerian national railway company, has approved none of the bids submitted for a contract to build a 360 km railway line between the towns of Mecheria and Bechar in south-west Algeria. (...) [106 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE
	FABRICE MAGNIER
	Head of a security firm named Defense Controle, Fabrice Magnier, has won a contract to see to security for Air France in Algeria. (...) [54 words] [$2,1]


	ITALY/TUNISIA
	ALFREDO LUIGI MANTICA
	An official visit to Tunisia by Italy's under secretary of state for foreign affairs, Alfredo Luigi Mantica, on June 21 didn't go exactly according to plan. (...) [59 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	TAOUFIK CHAIEB
	Will the Tunisian partner in the Carrefour chain, Taoufik Chaieb, succeed in opening new Carrefour supermarkets after his success in inaugurating a first in 2001? (...) [77 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA/UNDP
	PAOLO LEMBO
	The UNDP's resident in Algeria, Italy's Paolo Lembo, has run into trouble with the Algerian authorities who have declared him persona non grata. (...) [91 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	ANISSA BENAMEUR
	A psychologist and the wife of a doctor, Anissa Benameur, former minister in the Ghozali government (1991-92), was named secretary general of the Algerian Cultural Center in Paris in June. (...) [69 words] [$2,1]