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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 680 - 01/27/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Real-phoney opening up for agrofood sector

French agrofood industrialists are not too sure on which leg to stand in Libya. Although the liberal prime minister Choukri Ghanem announced, during a visit to Paris in April 2004, the dismantling of National Supply Company (NASCO)... (...) [313 words] [$4.7]

FRANCE/LIBYA

UTA's DC10

French justice will hand down a ruling on June 1st regading the suit filed by relatives of victims of the aircraft incident. (...)

algiers

General amnesty and constitutional reform

Two major political deadlines are just over the horizon for Algerian head of state Abdelaziz Bouteflika: (...) [108 words] [$1.5]

Menaces on Hassi Messaoud

All new construction is banned within the perimeter of Hassi Messaoud and a whole new town is to be built some 50 km away. (...) [76 words] [$1.5]

Net conseil invests in plastic money

Net Conseil Algérie, the new subsidiary of French group Net Conseil, is to launch into plastic money, an area that is not well developed in Algeria. (...) [88 words] [$1.5]

rabat

Caisse d'Epargne interested in CIH

Disappointed by the aborted rapprochement with Othman Benjelloun's BMCE Bank a year ago, Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne seems still determined to develop on the Moroccan market. (...) [120 words] [$1.5]

How BNDE was saved

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Sothema soon on stock exchange

Morocco's fifth pharmaceutical laboratory, Sothema (7 percent of market) plans to put 15 percent of its capital on the local stock exchange over the coming months. (...) [68 words] [$1.5]

tunis

Jean-Pierre Raffarin on "business trip" to tunis

French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is to meet with the Franco-Tunisian business community during the morning of January 31, in the framework of a forum organised by Mission Economique. (...) [183 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	LIBYA
	Biosphere Development Corp
	Biosphere Development Corp, part of the US group Global Environmental Energy Corp, has signed a preliminary agreement with STIAG Ltd to supply an incinerator for hospital waste from a maternity hospital in Tripoli (Libya). (...) [50 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	Conseil algérien des Participations de l'Etat
	Conseil algérien des Participations de l'Etat has authorised Fonds Algéro-Koweïtien d'Investissement (FAKI) to take up a capital holding in the hotel management firm El-Aurassi (a five-star hotel). (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	ENHYD
	ENHYD, the Algerian company specialising in hydraulic works, is to cede between 51 and 55 percent of its shares to the Swiss firm STUCKY SA. (...) [52 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	AGF
	AGF has ceded its 42.08 percent holdings, valued at 12.7 million euro, in Tunisian insurance company Astrée on the Tunis stock exchange. (...) [27 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Eli Lilly
	Eli Lilly is to introduce its ED medicament Cyalis on the Algerian market in the next few weeks. (...) [42 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Pharaon Commercial Investment Group Limited
	Pharaon Commercial Investment Group Limited (Saudi Arabia), Holcim (Switzerland) and Sacimop (Portugal) are candidates for a participation of up to 35 percent in the West Algerian firm Cimenterie de Beni Saf. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions
	Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions (France) is to supply Entreprise algérienne de télédiffusion a coding/multiplexing system (MPEG) for radio and television on the Hotbird satellite. (...) [29 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	TUNISIA
	Fraj Daouas
	A former mayor of Hammam Sousse (birthplace of Tunisian head of state Ben Ali) and assistant secretary of RCD coordination committee in Sousse, Fraj Daouas has been promoted to head the Office des Eaux Minérales. (...) [103 words] [$1.5]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	Michele Alliot-Marie
	The French defence minister is expected to go to Tripoli on February 4 and 5. (...) [65 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	belhassen trabelsi
	The market to provide accommodation for teams competing in the 24-nation World Handball Cup in Tunis in the coming weeks was not open for long. (...) [62 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA/UNITED KINGDOM
	Brian Wilson
	The special representative for trade in British prime minister Tony Blair's government is to head a delegation of businessmen visiting Algeria on February 27 and 28. (...) [54 words] [$1.5]