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Archive n° 669 - 11/04/2004

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

A Re-Elected President's Financial Friends

More discreetly that the Chiboub, Trabelsi and Mabrouk family clans which gravitate around Zine el Abedeine Ben Ali... (...) [327 words] [$7]

UNITED STATES/LIBYA

Bush-Kadhafi Lobbyist

Registered as Libya's lobbyist in July, Randa Fahmy Hudome, who meanwhile worked for Bush's re-election, hasn't yet signed her $1.4 million deal with Tripoli. (...)

algiers

DEVEDJIAN IN ALGIERS THIS MONTH

French industry minister Patrick Devedjian will travel to Algiers at the end of November to work out the details of a plan aimed at boosting French investment in the country in 2005. (...) [94 words] [$2,1]

KHELIL A PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE, TOO

In addition to finance minister Abdelatif Benhachenhou, energy minister Chakib Khelil is being tipped in Algiers as a potential successor to prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia. (...) [51 words] [$2,1]

WATANIYA TELECOM TO SWITCH STRATEGY?

Nedjma, the Algerian subsidiary of the Kuwait operator Wataniya Telecom, is taking a fresh look at its commercial strategy. (...) [48 words] [$2,1]

SAIDAL SELLS STAKE TO KUWAITIS

The semi-private pharmaceutical firm Saidal has sold 15% of its business (or 1. (...) [46 words] [$2,1]

THREE DEATHS TIED TO ABDEREZAK THE PARA RETURN

Three officers, a Libyan and two Algerians, were killed when Amari Saifi alias Abderezak the Para was turned over to Algerian custody last week. (...) [82 words] [$2,1]

rabat

WASHINGTON INCREASES AID

The United States is planning a four-fold increase in its economic assistance to Morocco. (...) [115 words] [$2,1]

DGSN SETS UP ?URBAN SECURITY GROUPS.?

To fight new forms of crime, the public safety division of Morocco's DGSN security agency headed by Bouchain Rmili has just set up ? (...) [53 words] [$2,1]

VOLVO WINS CONTROL OF BERLIET MAROC

Renault Trucks, an affiliate of the Volvo group, has acquired 25% of the 35. (...) [100 words] [$2,1]

tunis

UNIONS' BRUSH WITH THE LAW

The former secretary-general of the UGTT union, Ismail Sahbani, and Ali Trabelsi, secretary-general of the Union Regional du Grand Tunisie, are meeting regularly with officials from the justice ministry these days to talk about their management methods at UGTT. (...) [43 words] [FREE]

BIDDERS FOR ENFIDHA AIRPORT

Three out of seven initial bidders for a contract to build the first part of the new Enfidha airport have been pre-qualified. (...) [65 words] [$2,1]

NO PRIVATIZATIONS IN PIPELINE

Direct foreign investment dropped to DR752 million in 2003 from DR1.1 billion the previous year for want of any major privatization of state-owned companies. (...) [74 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	SOTRAMEST
	SOTRAMEST, an Algerian-Italian consortium, is to complete work on the new El Kala fishing port in eastern Algeria. (...) [36 words] [FREE]


	LIBYA/MALTA
	AMATECH
	AMATECH (Malta) has been selected by the international computer equipment company Acer to distribute its products in Libya. (...) [22 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	BNP PARIBAS
	BNP PARIBAS is putting up $100 million towards Sonatrach's purchase of a methane tanker from Japan's Kawasaki shipyard. (...) [46 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	FERTIAL
	FERTIAL, an affiliate of the Algerian food and drinks group Asmidal, is going to buy a closed circuit TV survillance system for its ammoniac production unit in western Algeria. (...) [32 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	ODEP
	ODEP, the Moroccan port authority, has proceeded with a DH500 million bond issue. (...) [49 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/TUNISIA
	PIERRE AUDOIN CONSULTANTS
	PIERRE AUDOIN CONSULTANTS (France) has signed a partnership agreement with the private Tunisian firm Carthago Information Technology to conduct studies in the technology and information fields in North Africa and Africa. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	UNITED KINGDOM/TUNISIA
	BRITISH GAS
	BRITISH GAS plans to launch a $120 million program in 2006 to enhance production on the Miskar field in Tunisia (installation of a compressor). (...) [64 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE/TUNISIA
	ABDELWAHAB HANI
	A Tunisian journalist, Abdelwahab Hani, who works for a Paris-based opposition TV station named El Hiwar (? (...) [101 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	LARBI BELKHEIR
	... (...) [53 words] [$2,1]


	UNITED KINGDOM/TUNISIA
	PHIL BATSON
	British diplomat Phil Batson will shortly take up his new job as deputy head of mission at the British embassy in Tunis. (...) [61 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	ABDENNACER NAIT-LIMAN
	A Tunisian political refugee who has resided in Switzerland since 1995, Abdennacer Nait-Limin, already managed to get former Tunisian interior minister Abdallah Kallel to hastily break off medical treatment at a hospital in Geneva in February, 2001 by filing a criminal complaint against him. (...) [140 words] [$2,1]