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Archive n° 610 - 07/10/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

London Offers Weaponry

Increasingly present on the business scene in North Africa, Britain has also made a major push in the specific and sensitive field of armaments over the past year. (...) [315 words] [$7]

algiers

NO RETIREMENT PLANS FOR TOP GENERALS

While the champagne corks have popped with the promotion of colonels to the rank of general, official sources in Algiers say none of Algeria's top, decision-making military leaders has plans to retire or ? (...) [88 words] [$2,1]

STILL MORE TO EMERGE IN KHALIFA AFFAIR?

What is known about the Khalifa affair could only be the proverbial tip of the iceberg. (...) [135 words] [$2,1]

FIASCO FOR CEMENT WORKS PRIVATIZATION

The government's effort to partially privatize the Meftah, Hadjar Soud and Zahana cement works - based respectively in Blida, Tebessa and Annaba - has once again fallen flat. (...) [119 words] [$2,1]

ALGIERS STOCK EXCHANGE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE

The Algiers stock exchange, Societe de la Bourse des Valeurs Mobilieres d'Alger (SGVB), is virtually bankrupt. (...) [77 words] [$2,1]

rabat

US-FRANCE TRADE RIVALRY

Feeling pressure from the U.S. which intends to adopt a free trade accord with Morocco in 2004 under the fast-track procedure, the CFCIM and UBIFRANCE organizations and the trade mission at the French embassy in Rabat plan to stage a new ? (...) [118 words] [$2,1]

RABAT SEEKING BRITISH FARM PARTNERS

Moroccan farm minister Mohand Laenser led a delegation of Moroccan companies to London to arrange for trade in farm products and in fresh or processed food and drink goods between the two countries. (...) [66 words] [$2,1]

BANQUES POPULAIRE GROUP SOUNDS OUT CANADIAN MARKET

After doing the rounds in France, Morocco's Groupe Banques Populaires wants to make the maximum out of the flow of remittances generated by Moroccans living and working in Quebec. (...) [86 words] [$2,1]

tunis

TIMETABLE FOR UK TRADE MISSIONS

A leading partner of Tunisia in the gas, pharmaceuticals and clothing trades, Britain is planning a series of missions in coming months to build up markets in other areas. (...) [92 words] [$2,1]

LIMOS A HOT ITEM

Six months after the government slashed customs duties by 60% on the import of luxury cars, American limos are making their appearance on the streets of Tunis. (...) [87 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	SAIDAL
	SAIDAL, the Algerian pharmaceutical group that may soon sell off stakes in its business, has signed an agreement with Cameroon's Pervenche to market Algerian medicine in Cameroon. (...) [45 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	NUMHYD
	NUMHYD, an oil company owned by Algeria's Sonatrach and Etap in Tunisia, plans to explore blocks 220A and 220B in the Illizi basin in Algeria. (...) [46 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	ENERGOPROJEKT
	ENERGOPROJEKT is to carry out a preliminary study, provide technical assistance and supervise interconnection work on the Oued Cherf and Ain Dalia dams in west Algeria. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	MILK ITALY
	MILK ITALY has been accused by state-owned ?Complexe Laitier Taghast? (...) [49 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	PALM DORINT
	PALM DORINT, a company owned by Moroccan businessman Mohamed Bouab, has been stripped of the management contract for new ? (...) [64 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	ADM
	ADM, the state-owned roads authority in Morocco, will shortly examine bids for a contract to build a 28 km section of the Tetouan-Fnideq motorway. (...) [44 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
	EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK (EIB) has offered a 14 million Euro loan for the renovation and upgrading of five Moroccan ports: (...) [31 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	MOHAMED CHERIF
	Muammer Kadhafi's adviser on Islamic affairs and head of ?Dawa Islamiya,? (...) [133 words] [$2,1]


	UNITED STATES/LIBYA/TUNISIA
	AMIN GEMAYEL
	Former Lebanese president Amin Gemayel's prime reason for traveling to Tripoli in late June was to mediate between Muammer Kadhafi and hawks in the Bush administration on bringing about a resumption of relations between the two countries. (...) [84 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	DJAMEL EDDINE KHENE
	Will Algeria's energy minister, Chakib Khelil, who signed an energy cooperation pact with Paris last week, take over once again as boss of the state-owned oil company Sonatrach. (...) [52 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/Arab World
	CLAUDE GOASGUEN
	French legislator Claude Goasguen recently voiced the ?concern? of the French Jewish association CRIF and called on the Arab World Institute in Paris to have Israel included on the map of the Middle East at the entrance of the Institute in Paris. (...) [109 words] [$2,1]