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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 698 - 06/09/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

North Africa: U.S. Extends Security Reach

The United States is ramping up its security operations in North Africa. Fearing that parts of Africa could become ?the next Afghanistan,? (...) [303 words] [$4.7]

ALGERIA

Algeria: Public Banks in Deep Trouble

Some $4 billion will have to be pumped into state-owned banks to help cover losses they have accumulated because of non-performing loans. (...)

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OUYAHIA IN MOROCCO

Prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia is due to visit Morocco on June 21-22 despite fresh tension between the two countries concerning Western Sahara. (...) [57 words] [$1.5]

ABDELMALEK NEW MILITARY BOSS

General Guenaizia Abdelmalek, a deputy to defense minister and president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has been handed full powers over the Algerian armed forces. (...) [64 words] [$1.5]

FRANCO-ALGERIAN WATER SEMINAR

Algiers will play host to a Franco-Algerian seminar on water purification between June 21-23. (...) [75 words] [$1.5]

rabat

CHAMI SEEKS ?REGIONALIZATION? OF MINIMUM WAGE

The Confederation Generale des Employeurs Marocains (CGEM) is pushing ahead with its efforts to set a minimum wage by region in Morocco in step with the average cost of living in different parts of the country. (...) [124 words] [$1.5]

BIG FOOD AND DRINK JAMBOREE

The CFCIA has teamed up with the Jangil agency to organize a meeting between agribusiness suppliers in Casablanca between June 8-11. (...) [198 words] [$1.5]

BRINGING STANDARDS IN LINE

Crucial for Morocco in coming years, the switch to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) drew a number of experts to Casablanca on June 2 to attend a day-long seminar organized by the Association Marocaine de Comptabilite. (...) [88 words] [$1.5]

tunis

SNDP SELL-OFF TO RAISE CASH

Tunisia's Direction Generale de la Privatization has just issued an invitation to tender for 35% of the equity of Societe Nationale de Distribution de Petrole (SNDP). (...) [97 words] [$1.5]

MHIRI GETS RADIO GO-AHEAD

Neji Mhiri, a businessman born in the Hammam Sousse region – like president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali – has just received a green light from the government to start up a private radio station. (...) [117 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	TUNISIA
	KARTHAGO GROUP
	KARTHAGO GROUP, which is owned by Belhassen Trabelsi, brother in law of Tunisian president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, is to shortly open a consultancy. (...) [42 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/AUSTRIA
	VATECH
	VATECH (Austria) has been awarded a contract to rehabilitate a major water purification facility in Algiers. (...) [36 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	SAFEGE
	SAFEGE, a French consultancy, has been selected to monitor construction of a water purification station at Sidi Merouane in eastern Algeria. (...) [69 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA/UNITED KINGDOM
	STONE & WEBSTER
	STONE & WEBSTER, a British engineering firm, has landed a contract to supervise the investment and modernization program at the Societe Nationale Algerienne de la Petrochimie (ENIP). (...) [41 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	RAIDCO
	RAIDCO (Alstom group) has just delivered a patrol boat costing 65 million euros to Mauritania. (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	MAILLE FIL
	MAILLE FIL, an affiliate of Tunisia's Bouchamaoui group, is seeking an American partner to help develop its textile business in the U. (...) [52 words] [$1.5]


	GERMANY
	AHK MAROKKO
	AHK MAROKKO, the German chamber of commerce in Morocco, is organising a seminar on ? (...) [29 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	CLAUDE PERIOU
	The managing director of Proparco, Claude Periou, will pay a two day visit to Casablanca and Rabat. (...) [89 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	HEDI BACCOUCHE
	Former Tunisian prime minister Hedi Baccouche could be named head of a new Chamber of Advisers to be inaugurated on July 3 after the election of two thirds of its members. (...) [48 words] [$1.5]


	BELGIUM/MOROCCO/MAURITANIA
	DANIEL CUYLITS
	Talks are proceeding on a move by the Moroccan-Mauritanian tandem Attijariwafa Bank-GBM to acquire Belgolaise, affiliate of Belgium's Fortis. (...) [80 words] [$1.5]


	UNITED KINGDOM/MOROCCO
	CHARLES GRAY
	A former senior official in the Foreign Office's Middle East department between 2002-2004, Charles Gray, has succeeded Haydon Warren-Gash as British ambassador to Rabat. (...) [46 words] [$1.5]


	UNITED STATES/MOROCCO
	GORDON SMITH
	A Republican senator from Oregon, Gordon Smith, headed a delegation of senators who visited Morocco between May 31-June 2 to discuss ways of resolving the Western Sahara issue in a ? (...) [56 words] [$1.5]