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Archive n° 626 - 11/27/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Who Speaks for ?Real Bosses? ?

The atmosphere remains tense and the competition cut-throat between Franco-Algerian or Algerian-French employers federations. While the Chambre Francaise de Commerce et d'Industrie (CFCIA) led in determined fashion by Michel de Caffarelli holds the high ground at the moment a lot of people in the background are trying to undermine it. (...) [302 words] [$7]

MOROCCO/EUROPEAN UNION

Clandestine Immigration

The EU has offered to sign an assistance accord with Morocco to fight illegal immigration and to arrange for NGO's to care for non-Moroccan emigrants (...)

algiers

COOPERATION WITH U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

Still on its honeymoon with Algiers, the Bush administration has sent a legal adviser to Algiers to examine ways of increasing bilateral anti-terrorist cooperate. (...) [111 words] [$2,1]

WTO: WHAT OBSTACLES REMAIN?

Algeria is determined to secure membership in the World Trade Organization in 2004. (...) [85 words] [$2,1]

SHARP RISE IN FRENCH AID

Algeria has long shunned French financial assistance, which has never been without strings, and Morocco has largely benefited from that state of affairs. (...) [204 words] [$2,1]

rabat

BCM SNAPS UP WAFABANK

Morocco's leading private bank, Banque Commerciale du Maroc (ONA group) has just snapped up Saad Kettani's Wafa group after long casting a covetous eye at BMCE headed by Othman Benjelloun. (...) [145 words] [$2,1]

CFCE TO MULL MOROCCAN CORPORATE LAW

A conference on corporate law in Morocco will be held at the CFCE on December 2. (...) [102 words] [$2,1]

tunis

FRANCO-TUNISIAN CEREALS CONCLAVE

Henri de Benoist, chairman of Cerealiers de France, will lead a delegation of officials from French cereals companies to Tunis on Dec. (...) [111 words] [$2,1]

A MORE ?POLITICAL? ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE?

During a recent meeting, members of the Arab World Institute's board of directors suggested that chairman Denis Bauchard inject a more political note into the Institute's quarterly publication, Qantara. (...) [71 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	TUNISIA
	STUMENTAL
	STUMENTAL, Societe Tuisienne d'Emballages Metaliques, is going to be privatized. (...) [41 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	TUNISIE TELECOM
	TUNISIE TELECOM has issued a call to bids for the supply, installation and commissioning of digital transmission systems by optic fibre and electro-magnetic waves. (...) [27 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	GPE
	GPE, a European pharmaceutical group that works with Algeria's Saidal, will put its new plant in Algiers into service in the first half of 2004. (...) [43 words] [FREE]


	SPAIN/MOROCCO
	GLOBALIA
	GLOBALIA, a Spanish holiday company, has signed a partnership agreement with the Moroccan government. (...) [18 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/SPAIN
	ELECNOR-INABANSA-COBA
	ELECNOR-INABANSA-COBA, a Spanish consortium that bid for the electrification contract for the railway network in the suburbs of Algiers, has been eliminated because its price didn't include tax. (...) [61 words] [$2,1]


	LIBYA
	KOREA ELECTRIC
	KOREA ELECTRIC has just signed an 18 month technical assistance agreement with General Electricity Company of Libya. (...) [22 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/TUNISIA
	SPYKER ENERGY
	SPYKER ENERGY, a French company headed by former executives of Coparex, has bought Lundin Petroleum's concession at Sidi Al Itayem, according to Africa Energy Intelligence (Indigo Publications). (...) [52 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	ALGERIA
	LAZHAR BOUNAFAA
	President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has just fired Lazhar Bounafaa, managing director of the state-owned housing agency AADL, just as Algeria is making a special push to build low-cost housing in the wake of the May 21 earthquake (France's Bouygues Construction has returned to the country since the tremor). (...) [131 words] [$2,1]


	MAGHREB
	MOHAMED OULD TOLBA
	With the ?5+5? summit scheduled for Tunis in early December, the foreign ministers of the Union of Arab Maghreb, a pan-North African organization, are trying to align their positions on a number of key issues. (...) [85 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	CHRISTIAN POORTMAN
	The vice president of the World Bank for North Africa and the Middle East, Christian Poortman, held a meeting last week in Casablanca with the Moroccan employers federation CGEM. (...) [48 words] [$2,1]