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Archive n° 677 - 01/06/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Basri's Happy New Year to Chirac

Morocco's strong-man during the reign of Hassan II, Driss Basri, wrote to president Jacques Chirac on Dec. 20. (...) [350 words] [$7]

TUNISIA

Tunisia: How Many Textile Jobs Threatened?

Experts say thousands of Tunisia's 210,000 textile workers, mostly women, could be thrown out of work by competition from China. (...)

algiers

BOUTEFLIKA SEES THE DOCTOR IN FRANCE

Maghreb Confidential understands that president Abdelaziz Bouteflika traveled discreetly to Paris just before Christmas for medical treatment (a sore throat? (...) [43 words] [FREE]

COMPROMISE ON DESTINATION CLAUSE

Launched two years ago with the European Commission, talks on lifting the destination clause for Algerian gas resulted in a compromise early this month. (...) [115 words] [$2,1]

HOTEL TRADE PULLS OUT STOPS

Hotel chains in Algeria are on a spending spree. Accor has reportedly won a green light to build 37 two and three star IBIS hotels while the Saudi Arabian holding company SIDAR is pushing to acquire land and to become prime contractor for a 20,000-bed holiday resort on the coast west of Algiers. (...) [58 words] [$2,1]

CHINESE MAKE HEADWAY ON WATER MARKET

China's CGC group has just won three contracts... (...) [74 words] [$2,1]

rabat

EU PUTS UP MONEY FOR BORDER SURVEILLANCE

Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, the director-general for internal affairs at Morocco's interior ministry, has signed an agreement that will allow Morocco to fit out its new ? (...) [89 words] [$2,1]

tunis

FRENCH PREMIER TO VISIT

French prime minister Jean-Pierre Rafferin will pay a visit to Tunis at the end of the month. (...) [35 words] [FREE]

CHIBOUB THROWS IN AD TOWEL

Inaugurated with considerable fanfare in January, 2003 to cover the African Football Cup, the Tunis United Advertising company owned by Slim Chiboub, son-in-law of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, has closed its doors. (...) [79 words] [$2,1]

BOUCHAMAOUI GROUP IN SYRIAN OIL VENTURE

A Tunisian firm, Hedi Bouchamaoui Sons International Ltd (HBS), has won a rare oil exploration license in Syria, in the western part of the Rekaa region. (...) [101 words] [$2,1]

tripoli

MILITARY PROCUREMENT CENTER OPENS AGAIN IN PARIS

Shut during the embargo against Tripoli, a military procurement center has opened its doors again in Paris under a new chief, colonel Naddab Salem Mohamed. (...) [91 words] [$2,1]

KADHAFI SEES BIG AT SIRTE

Looking ahead to the 40th anniversary the 1969 putsch that brought him to power, Muammar Kadhafi has launched work on a Pharaonic scale at Sirte, his home town that is destined to become Libya's capital. (...) [85 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	BELGIUM/TUNISIA
	AWACS
	AWACS in Belgium and TEF SA in Spain are to help Tunisia in decontaminating phosphoric acid (lowering the cadmium level) in the Gulf of Gabes. (...) [29 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/SWITZERLAND
	STUDER
	STUDER (Switzerland) and Incomtel GmbH (Germany) have been contracted to supply equipment to Radio Algerienne worth respectively Sfr2 million and 47,000 euros. (...) [26 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	SIDES
	SIDES (France) has won a contract to supply 39 tanker trucks, 37 power-driven pumps and 20 power-pump vans to Algeria's civil protection service. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	COYNE ET BELLIER / HAMZA INTERNATIONAL
	COYNE ET BELLIER/HAMZA INTERNATIONAL (France and Algeria) have been contracted to supervise work on a section of the Cheliff dam over a 36 month period. (...) [36 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	ALGERIAN POLICE FORCE
	ALGERIAN POLICE FORCE has ordered 1.5 million euros worth of telecommunications gear from ARESYS in France and Belgium's DAMOVO. (...) [56 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA/GERMANY
	IGEP
	IGEP, a German consultancy, was chosen by the Office National Algerien de l'Assainissement for the technical supervision and monitoring of construction work at the water purification center in the city of Saida in western Algeria. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	ALGERIAN FINANCE MINISTRY
	ALGERIAN FINANCE MINISTRY has called on Naftal, an affiliate of Sontatrach that specializes in fuel distribution, to invest in service stations on the east-west motorway to compete with private companies. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	TONIC EMBALLAGE
	TONIC EMBALLAGE (Algeria) is to inaugurate a paper production unit in western Algeria at the end of this year. (...) [32 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	LIBYA
	AICHA KADHAFI
	The only daughter of Muammar Kadhafi, Aicha, has positioned herself on the lucrative health care market. (...) [64 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	HUBERT VEDRINE
	Maghreb Confidential understands that Ex-French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine figures among ? (...) [88 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	JEAN BEAUSSOU
	The French ambassador to Libya, Jean Beaussou, who stood down in early October – a few weeks before president Jacques Chirac's official visit to Tripoli – in favor of Jean-Luc Sibuide, was awarded the Legion d'Honneur on Jan. (...) [71 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	HEDI MECHRI
	Promedia, a publishing company owned by Hedi Mechri, editor-in-chief of the twice-a-month L'Economiste Maghrebin and the monthly Le Manager, is going to put out a new magazine for TunisAir, El Ghazala. (...) [74 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	BACCAR TOUZANI
	The former secretary-general of the Chambre de Commerce Franco-Arabe (CCFA), Baccar Touzani, has been awarded the Legion d'Honneur in France. (...) [24 words] [FREE]