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Archive n° 614 - 09/04/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Skidmore, the King and Morocco's Virtual Oil

The American businessman Michael Gustin and John Paul DeJoria plan to file a suit in the United States against the Saudi group Dallah Al Baraka and the KPMG auditing concern following the eviction of their firm, Skidmore Energy, from the Maghreb Petroleum Exploration (MPE) company (formerly Lone Star Energy). (...) [332 words] [$7]

algiers

SECRET BOUTEFLIKA-ZEROUAL MEETING

Maghreb Confidential has learned that former president Liamine Zeroual met discreetly with current head-of-state Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the presence of retired general Abdellah Belhouchet, a close associate of Bouteflika on the Revolutionary Council in the 1970s. (...) [97 words] [$2,1]

BOUTEFLIKA REAL BOSS OF BANQUE D'ALGERIE

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has brought the country's central bank, Banque d'Algerie, under his control and that of his finance minister, Abdelatif Benachenhou. (...) [134 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S TO BLAME FOR BCIA LOSS?

According to provisional estimates, the Banque du Commerce et de l'Industrie d'Algerie (BCIA) piled up losses of around $1 billion. (...) [95 words] [$2,1]

rabat

DIA WATCHING MOROCCO FROM ITALY

According to our sources, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has set up a special unit to keep an eye on Morocco from a naval base in Italy, complete with eavesdropping gear and analysts. (...) [59 words] [$2,1]

A VOICE OF AMERICA AMBASSADOR

Just as U.S. ambassador Margaret Tutwiler prepared to leave her post in Rabat, Morocco's information minister was called in to sign an agreement with her to broadcast Arabic-language programs of Voice of America on seven Moroccan FM stations. (...) [57 words] [$2,1]

tunis

BAD PATCH FOR TLILI

A former, government-sanctioned candidate for the presidency and ex-chairman of the Office de l'Aviation Civile et des Aeroports (OACA), Abderrahman Tlili was roughed up by unknown assailants outside the home of his mother in Tunis. (...) [134 words] [$2,1]

TUNISIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS IN GENEVA

Despite the presence of Mourad Dhina, a leader of FIS, in Geneva, the Swiss police don't seem particularly worried about Algerian fundamentalists. (...) [105 words] [$2,1]

tripoli

PRIME MINISTER A ?VICTIM? OF UTA AFFAIR?

Although he is very close to Saif Al Islam, who has been asked by Muammar Kadhafi and French president Jacques Chirac to resolve the dispute over the downing of the DC10 airliner operated by UTA, Libyan prime minister Shokri Ghanem could well fall victim to the Franco-Libyan quarrel. (...) [137 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	TUNISIA
	GENERAL ELECTRIC
	GENERAL ELECTRIC is increasingly active on the Tunisian market, building power stations for STEG in conjunction with Italy's Nuovo Pignone and manufacturing gasoline pumps and gas meters. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	EUROPROTECT
	EUROPROTECT, a French firm, is selling the Algerian police 150,000 meters of aramid viscose textile for protective clothing for 1. (...) [27 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	METEO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL
	METEO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL is to supply a weather station worth 408,000 euros for Algiers international airport and 10 other stations for Algerian airports costing a total of 2. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	VIVENDI
	VIVENDI has quietly boosted its stake in Maroc Telecom from 35% to 51%. (...) [53 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	STI
	STI (Societe Tunisienne d'Ingenierie Internationale) has won a contract worth 56 million dinars from Algeria's housing ministry to draft a blueprint and conduct a study on a major real estate program involving several hundred housing units in Algiers. (...) [41 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	GARBOLI CONICOS/COSIDER/ALTRO
	GARBOLI CONICOS/COSIDER/ALTRO are to jointly build an 18 kilometer section and bridges on the Zennouna-Bord Bou Arreridi motorway some 200 km from Algiers. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	MAGHREB
	WORLD BANK
	WORLD BANK will stage a discussion on challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa region in Paris on Sept. (...) [70 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	MOROCCO
	DANIELLE MITTERRAND
	Ever since the « France Libertes » Foundation denounced the presence of Moroccan prisoners of war in Polisario camps at Tindouf, its president, Danielle Mitterrand, no longer finds herself described in the Moroccan press as ? (...) [77 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	SAID BOUTEFLIKA
	The brother and adviser to Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Said Bouteflika is attempting to forge ties with all of the senior officers pushed aside by army chief-of-staff Mohamed Lamari. (...) [80 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	HABIB AMMAR
	A follower of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali during the ? (...) [135 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	M. HANNACHI
	Managing director of the Arab Bank PLC Algerie, which won a license to operate in 1999 and is headquartered in Amman, Jordan, M. (...) [44 words] [FREE]