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Archive n° 615 - 09/11/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

A Pro-Bouteflika FLN Branch in West

The open fight between Ali Benflis and Abdelaziz Bouteflika for next April's presidential race has transformed itself into a war of regional clans in eastern and western Algerian. (...) [336 words] [$7]

algiers

SENIOR GENERALS PUT OUT TO GRASS

Maghreb Confidential has learned that major general Salah Gaid, the oldest officer in the army—he is over 70—will shortly be named inspector-general of the armed forces, a post created specially for him in his twilight years. (...) [99 words] [$2,1]

WILL UNION BANK FOLLOW KHALIFA AND BCIA TO WALL?

A bank owned by businessman Brahim Hadjas, Union Bank, has run into financial trouble. (...) [91 words] [$2,1]

WHO IS BEHIND THE ?TONIC EMBALLAGE? COMPANY?

Working out of a large plot of farmland at Bou Ismail some 40 km west of Algiers, a mysterious firm named Tonic Emballage is fast gaining ground on the key paper and packaging market by practicing prices that none of its rivals can match. (...) [93 words] [$2,1]

CALL TO BID FOR OUED CHELIFF DAM

The Algerian government has organized a visit to the site of the future Oued Cheliff dam at Oran that a good 40 companies are interested in building, including Dragados, Lavalin, Astaldi and Condotti. (...) [51 words] [$2,1]

rabat

THE CASABLANCA GARBAGE DISPOSAL BATTLE

The greater Casablanca municipal council has taken over the collection of the city's solid waste that had previously been managed by 27 different municipalities. (...) [129 words] [$2,1]

GERMANS IN WATER PURIFICATION PUSH

The German chamber of commerce in Morocco organized a seminar in Rabat on the management of water purification on Sept. (...) [41 words] [FREE]

tunis

TEMPERS FLARE IN NORTHERN TUNIS SUBURBS

Municipal councils in the northern suburbs of Tunis, the favorite residential haunt of the country's political and business elite, are in an uproar. (...) [115 words] [$2,1]

BUG IN ECONOMIC INDICATORS?

The criteria used by the Tunisian government to measure the country's social-economic level and development of business sectors are increasingly out of step with those of international organizations. (...) [184 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	SOFRECOM
	SOFRECOM, the telecommunications engineering unit of France Telecom, has won a $2. (...) [41 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	LES MOULINS DE RELIZANE
	LES MOULINS DE RELIZANE (Algeria), which went bankrupt a year ago, has resumed production at a rate of 500 bushels a day, with a private partner buying raw materials and marketing its output. (...) [46 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	CANAL SATELLITE
	CANAL SATELLITE, Noos and NC Numericable have signed agreements with Morocco's SOREAD-EM that will enable the two French cable TV companies to carry the 2M-Maroc channel. (...) [39 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/EGYPT
	ORASCOM
	ORASCOM, the Egyptian telephone operator, has to pay $360 million to the Algerian government for the second operating part of its GSM license no later than Dec. (...) [45 words] [FREE]


	GERMANY/TUNISIA
	AFRIKA-VEREIN
	AFRIKA-VEREIN is organizing a visit by German businessmen specializing in high tech sectors to Tunisia between Oct. (...) [22 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	OFEC
	OFEC, the Casablanca fairs and exhibition board, is organizing an 8th food and drink exhibition during the Casablanca international fair between Oct. (...) [27 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/TUNISIA
	CTFCI
	CTFCI, the Tunisian-French chamber of commerce, is organizing a three day ? (...) [28 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	RADEEO
	RADEEO, the water and power service in the Moroccan city of Oujda, wants to reorganize its drinking water network and set up a service to run a pilot water purification plant. (...) [54 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	MAHMOUD MOHAND-AMOKRANE
	The secretary-general of Algeria's security agency Direction Generale de la Surete Nationale (DGSN), Mahmoud Mohand-Amokrane, is to attend courses this year at France's Institute for Higher Domestic Security Studies. (...) [129 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	PATRICK LEBRUN
	Previously deputy head of the trade mission at the French embassy in Oslo, Patrick Lebrun has just been appointed chief of the trade mission in Tripoli. (...) [67 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	CHERIF MOUBARAK
	A member of the Franco-Libyan chamber of commerce, Cherif Moubarak, has been named head of a new Libyan employers' federation. (...) [52 words] [$2,1]