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Archive n° 612 - 07/24/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Raffarin to Assess Morocco Country-Risk

French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin was due to pay an official visit to Morocco on July 24-25 along with six ministers: (...) [288 words] [$7]

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GERMAN INQUIRY INTO HANDLING OF HOSTAGE RELEASE

The way that Algeria has handled the matter of 31 European tourists held hostage in the Sahara desert has intrigued the German authorities and media to the point that a television channel is planning to investigate how the Algerian army functions. (...) [130 words] [$2,1]

COSIDER-DYWIDAG OUT?

The government's decision to award a 14.6 billion dinar contract to the Algerian-German Cosider-Dywidag consortium to build the El Hamma-Hai el Badr section of the Algiers underground system (4. (...) [72 words] [$2,1]

AIT YALA BROTHERS TO BUILD RESORT

The Ait Yala brothers (see Who's Who) who head the Universal Multimedia company in France and Bya Electronic in Algeria, are intent on developing a $17 million seaside resort at Mostaganem. (...) [67 words] [$2,1]

THE REAL COST OF THE KHALIFA AFFAIR

Maghreb Confidential understands that prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia estimates that the El Khalifa bank scandal has cost the Algerian finance ministry $2 billion, or twice the amount announced earlier before the Algerian parliament. (...) [51 words] [$2,1]

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WHO ARE THE FOREIGN BIG HITTERS ON CASABLANCA STOCK EXCHANGE?

Roughly 24% of the Casablanca Stock Exchange's capitalization - or $2. (...) [99 words] [$2,1]

AMERICANS ADVISE BANKERS

A delegation from the Financial Services Volunteer Corps backed by the US Agency for International Development and the State Department visited Morocco between July 13-18 to set up a technical assistance program for local banks. (...) [70 words] [$2,1]

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WORLD BANK ADVOCATES FACELIFT FOR HOLIDAY TRADE

The World Bank has called for a radical switch in Tunisia's tourism strategy In a survey on holiday-making in the country. (...) [100 words] [$2,1]

RETAIL MARKET TO REMAIN CLOSED

Tunisia's ministry for international development and cooperation issued an official ? (...) [121 words] [$2,1]

GROWTH OF 6.5% THIS YEAR

According to our sources, Tunisian officials estimate that the country's GNP could grow by 6. (...) [75 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	MAURITANIA
	CANDIA
	CANDIA signed a franchising agreement with the Mauritanian milk company Tivisky Sarl headed by Nancy Abderahmane. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	ENTV
	ENTV, Entreprise Nationale Algerienne de Television, is going to set up a multi-media editorial team with the help of the U. (...) [43 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	PANKO
	PANKO, a Czech firm that applied some months ago to represent the Skoda car make and to market several Czech products, such as crystal, hasn't managed as yet to win a green light from Algeria's financial and loan council. (...) [43 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	KARTHAGO HAMMAMET
	KARTHAGO HAMMAMET, a new shopping center that belongs to Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, will shortly boast a ? (...) [32 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	GROUPE MABROUK
	GROUPE MABROUK, named after the son in law of president Ben Ali, is beefing up its retail business (see opposite) and plans to take over the local Touta chain. (...) [47 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	GTZ
	GTZ, the German overseas development agency, has launched the second phase of its $4 million cooperative program with Morocco. (...) [32 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	DEFENSE CONTROL
	DEFENSE CONTROL, a Luxembourg-based security company, doesn't have an authorization to operate in Algeria, as we wrongly wrote in our last issue. (...) [70 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	ALGERIA
	EL HADI KHEDIRI
	Algeria's police chief between 1978-87 and interior minister in 1987-88, El Hadi Khediri divides his time between Algiers and Tunis, where he manages his affairs since he was fired following the bloody riots of October, 1988. (...) [76 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	KACEM AIT YALA
	A Franco-Algerian businessman, Kacem Ait Yala, who heads a company that makes LCD screens, Universal Multimedia, was recently made a knight of France's Legion d'Honneur by president Jacques Chirac. (...) [85 words] [$2,1]


	UNITED STATES/MOROCCO
	PHIL ENGLISH
	Relations between Morocco and the United States appear to be advancing smoothly. (...) [66 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	SAADI KADHAFI
	The son of Muammer Kadhafi, Saadi, has started out on a tour of French Polynesia after a stopover in Paris and in Bordeaux. (...) [60 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	JEAN-JACQUES BEAUSSOU
	The French ambassador to Libya, Jean-Jacques Beaussou, was received in Tripoli by Libya's new prime minister, Shukri Ghanem, on July 14, France's national holiday. (...) [42 words] [FREE]