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Archive n° 679 - 01/20/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Spanish business has great ambitions

With bilateral trade thriving and the figures for first-half 2004 given as up by 12 percent, Moroccan-Spanish business circles were in gala gear for the visit of king Juan Carlos on January 17-19. (...) [319 words] [$7]

ALGERIA

Algiers tackling cigarette smugglers

The finance minister Fathallah Oualalou has set up a special commission to cut cigarette smuggling and to reduce illegal trafic by 35 percent. (...)

algiers

Northrop Grumman sets up shop

Northrop Grumman Corporation is creating a technology transfer structure, Algerian Industries Developement Group. (...) [84 words] [$2,1]

Vast perspectiveS for desalination

Algérienne des Eaux (ADE) expects to build 33 desalination stations by 2019, including eleven to be delivered turnkey which will then be jointly managed by ADE and Algerian Energy Company (AEC), a joint venture between Sonatrach and Sonelgaz. (...) [92 words] [$2,1]

rabat

Benjelloun Jnr. promoted at finance.com

Finance.com is continuing to reorganise its management following the departure of vice chairman Saad Bendidi, who has moved to ONA (MC N°678). (...) [201 words] [$2,1]

Former BMCE official heads SNI

Hassan Bouhemou, a former official (1994-2001) of Othman Benjelloun's BMCE group, is expected to be named to head Société Nationale d'Investissement (SNI), the holding company controlled by the royal family's Siger/Ergis which has 29. (...) [102 words] [$2,1]

tunis

France-tunisia investment Forum at end-january

An economic mission is organising a France-Tunisia investment forum on "strategic and durable partnership" on January 31, in the framework of a visit by French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. (...) [64 words] [$2,1]

Tunisair reorganises

Tunisair is continuing the restructuring begun as part of the liberalisation of Tunisia's air transport sector. (...) [82 words] [$2,1]

tripoli

Clash between Ghanem and the revolutionary committees

If Choukri Ghanem thought he had certain privileges as Libya's prime minister, the annual session of the General Congress of the People, held last week in Tripoli, gave him a sharp reminder of who was boss: (...) [170 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	MOROCCO
	Drapor
	Drapor, Morocco's port dredging company, may be on the way to being privatised. (...) [47 words] [$2,1]


	UNITED STATES/MOROCCO
	Millenium Challenge Account
	Millenium Challenge Account (MCA), the US development aid programme, is currently examining which Moroccan projects, such as compulsory health insurance (AMO), medical assistance (RAMED), might be included in the plan. (...) [76 words] [$2,1]


	ITALY/MOROCCO
	CLA
	CLA, the new film production studios owned by Italian promoters Dino De Laurentiis and Luigi Abete (president of Cinecitta) and Morocco's Said Alj (head of Sanam Holding and Soheil Ben Barka), were officially inaugurated by Morocco's king Mohammed VI in Ouarzazate last week. (...) [46 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	Sonelgaz
	Sonelgaz (Algeria) has postponed until March 2005 the selection of the finalist for the US$650 million project for an electricity power station at Hadjeret Ennouss. (...) [53 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	Groupement d'entreprises para pétrolières
	Groupement d'entreprises para pétrolières (France) will head a delegation of some thirty French businesses to Algiers February 14-17 in the framework of the second African Petroleum Congress. (...) [56 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	SPAIN/MOROCCO/EUROPEAN UNION
	Manuel Chaves
	The president of the autonomous government of Andalusia, the Spanish region which was hardest hit by the non-renewal of the fisheries agreement with Morocco, is to go to the kingdom this spring. (...) [129 words] [$2,1]


	AFRICA/LIBYA
	Ali Triki
	... (...) [58 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/MAGHREB
	Luc Ferry
	According to MC sources, France's former minister for national education is one candidate for the job of late Serge Adda as chairman of the French television channel TV5/Canal France International very much watched by North-Africans. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	SPAIN/TUNISIA
	Habib M'barek
	Tunisian head of state Ben Ali last week announced a number of nominations of ambassadors: (...) [46 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	Mourad Trabelsi
	The nephew of Tunisia's First Lady Leila Ben Ali, née Trabelsi, is said to be very interested in the management of the sports stadium in Salambo, which lies in the heart of historical Carthage. (...) [50 words] [$2,1]