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Archive n° 613 - 07/31/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

French Wheat Out to Conquer North Africa

In free-fall between mid 2001 and mid 2002 because of poor quality, French wheat exports to North Africa – France is the European Union's biggest supplier to the region-- took off again in 2002-2003. (...) [376 words] [$7]

algiers

BANQUE D'ALGERIE'S WINGS CLIPPED

With its credibility badly damaged by the Khalifa financial scandal, the Banque d'Algerie will shortly see its powers singularly reduced. (...) [99 words] [$2,1]

NEW 2003/2005 PRIVATIZATION PROGRAM

The new government department in charge of state assets and promotion of investment has just published a list of state-owned companies that could be sold off between now and 2005. (...) [74 words] [$2,1]

REBRAB JUNIOR STARTS OUT ON OWN

Yacine Rebrab, son of tycoon Issad Rebrab, boss of the powerful Cevital group, has just taken over the management of a plant to assemble bicycles and motorized bikes under license from Austria's Puch make. (...) [60 words] [$2,1]

rabat

SECRET SERVICE: OLD GUARD SWEPT ASIDE

Ten weeks after the series of suicide attacks that claimed 44 lives in Casablanca on May 16, king Mohammed VI has revamped the country's security services. (...) [177 words] [$2,1]

RENAULT SEES MOROCCO AS EXPORT PLATFORM

The French car maker Renault has acquired a 38% stake in Somaca, the Societe Marocaine de Construction Automobile, which the government is privatizing. (...) [122 words] [$2,1]

WHO'LL DO GROUND HANDLING FOR RAM?

With deregulation of Morocco's airline industry looming large, Royal Air Maroc intends to hive off its ground handling operations to a private company. (...) [89 words] [$2,1]

WILL MADRID AND RABAT MAKE IT UP IN OCTOBER?

Spanish and Moroccan officials are due to meet in Rabat in October to try to reach agreement on ? (...) [65 words] [$2,1]

tunis

BEN ALI LIMBERS UP FOR FOURTH MANDATE

Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, who announced on July 28 that he would stand for a fourth presidential mandate, has already celebrated the news in family fashion by naming his nephew and former environment minister, Mohamed El Mendi Mika, a permanent member of the ruling RCD party. (...) [57 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
	SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC is settling up a retail network in Algeria and 20 dealerships are already operating. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/UNITED STATES
	US ALGERIA BUSINESS COUNCIL
	US ALGERIA BUSINESS COUNCIL, a business forum founded by the ex chairman of the US Arab Chamber of Commerce, Richard Holmes, is organizing a conference to promote a partnership in the food and drinks industry in Chicago on Oct. (...) [45 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	DAGRIS
	DAGRIS, a French company, is forming a joint venture with Algeria's Textile Manufacturing Company (Texmaco) to grow cotton in Algeria. (...) [48 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA/UNITED STATES
	TRADE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
	TRADE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY in the U.S., which is financing a study on the feasibility of building a second port terminal in Algiers (the study is being conducted by the U. (...) [50 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	CREDIT AGRICOLE DU MAROC
	CREDIT AGRICOLE DU MAROC has bought Banque Marocaine pour l'Afrique et l'Orient (BMAO), which has 27 branches in the country, and primarily at Casablanca, for a symbolic dirham. (...) [58 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	STEG
	STEG, Societe Tunisienne d'Electricite et de Gaz, will install six monitoring centers on its national grid to try to reduce power cuts. (...) [40 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	ALGERIA
	FODHIL CHERIF
	Major-general Fodhil Cherif, head of Algeria's 1st military region and close to army chief-of-staff Mohamed Lamari, is highly unhappy about being overshadowed by president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the case of European hostages in the Sahara that had previously been handled by the military. (...) [77 words] [$2,1]


	ISRAEL/MOROCCO
	MOHAMED BENAISSA
	The royal palace appears to be playing a role in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. (...) [88 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	ABDELKADER BELGHARDI
	The Banque d'Algerie, which will soon have a new governor, has named Abdelkader Belgharbi as head of the Societe des Garanties et Depots (SGD), the new watchdog agency set up in the wake of the Khalifa affair. (...) [86 words] [$2,1]


	GERMANY/TUNISIA
	ERNST HINSKEN
	The chairman of the German parliament's tourism committee, Ernst Hinsken, traveled to Tunisia last week to prepare the annual convention of German travel agents (Deutsche Reiseburo und Reiseveranstalter Verband) in Hammamet in October. (...) [81 words] [$2,1]