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Archive n° 705 - 08/25/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Cosmetic Change Before Big Day

With the world information society summit looming large in Tunis - it will be held between Nov. 16-18 - president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali has moved his controversial spokesman Abdelwahab Abdallah into a government slot. (...) [329 words] [$7]

ALGERIA

GSPC Warning

The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) says Algerians in France with ties to Bouteflika enjoy "enormous influence" and has issued a threat against them. (...)

algiers

Belkheir Takes On Western Sahara Issue

A power behind the throne in Algeria since 1979, Larbi Belkheir has quit his post as chief of staff to president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to become ambassador to Morocco. (...) [111 words] [$2,1]

Franco-Algerian Business Timetable

Ubifrance is organizing a seminar in Algiers on Sept. 26 to present French know-how in electronic banking and computer services. (...) [121 words] [$2,1]

rabat

London Hosts Morocco Conference

The United Kingdom seems intent on benefiting from its current presidency of the European Union to build up its position in Morocco, long considered France’s preserve. (...) [126 words] [$2,1]

tunis

Mysterious Buyer For Bank Stake

The Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena has ended up by selling its 17% stake in Banque du Sud (BS), which it had long hoped to buy: (...) [82 words] [$2,1]

Bat/Banco Santander Advise Tunisie Telecom

A consortium made up of Banque d’Affaires de Tunisie (BAT, an affiliate of STB) and Banco Santander has won the contract to advise Tunisie Telecom on the sale of a 35% stake in its business to a major partner. (...) [74 words] [$2,1]

Kuwait Businessman Builds Up Portfolio

Kuwaiti businessman Abdul Mohsin Hayat, who is already a partner of Tunisia’s Tanit group (particularly through the firm Hayatcom Tunisie) has just acquired a 60% holding in Universelle de Bourse, a brokerage belonging to Tarek Cherif, boss of the Alliance group (household appliances, hotels, farming, ostrich breeding, etc. (...) [49 words] [$2,1]

tripoli

Nato patrols in med?

An international conference on maritime security organized in Tripoli on July 25/26 by the Kadhafi Foundation and the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Seas (ACOPS), a NATO think tank, quickly focussed specifically on security in the Mediterranean. (...) [149 words] [$2,1]

New Bosses For Spies

Libya’s secret service no longer answers to the justice ministry but to the foreign ministry. (...) [36 words] [FREE]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	MOROCCO
	Drapor
	DRAPOR, a Moroccan port dredging concern, plans to sell off stakes in its business. (...) [45 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	Cosumar
	COSUMAR (Morocco) has bought four Moroccan state-owned firms, SUTA, SURAC, SUNABEL and SUCRAFOR, which had been up for privatisation since 1990. (...) [49 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	Ubifrance
	UBIFRANCE is organizing a press conference in Paris on Sept. (...) [59 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	Dywidag
	DYWIDAG (Germany) has been contracted by the Office National Algerien de l’Assainissement to build a water purification station in the Ouargla region (12 million euros) and a facility to transfer water at Ain Beida (35 million euros). (...) [39 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Agence Nationale Algerienne Des Barrages
	AGENCE NATIONALE ALGERIENNE DES BARRAGES has awarded a contract to a consortium made up of MHLuxembourg-Sogetrap (Algeria), GESI-TP (Algeria), Vag (Germany) and AWE to carry out a project to supply several cities in the Tizi Ouzou area with drinking water. (...) [42 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/CHINA
	Huawei
	HUAWEI (China) has been selected by Algeria’s post and communications technology ministry to supply eight combined local/transit centers worth $2. (...) [52 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	ALGERIA/MOROCCO
	Boualem Bessaieh
	The out-going Algerian envoy to Rabat, Boualem Bessaieh, who will be replaced by Larbi Belkheir, has been named chairman of the Constitutional Council. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	Hedi Chaluf
	A Libyan legal expert with French nationality whose father was murdered in Libya in July, Hedi Chaluf, took part in a meeting organized by the former leader of Libyan students in France, Salah Khamis, in Paris in late July. (...) [73 words] [$2,1]


	LIBYA
	Aicha Kadhafi
	The daughter of Muammer Kadhafi, Aicha Kadhafi, is to marry Khaled Hamidi, son of Khouildi Hamidi, a companion of Kadhafi from the outset who now coordinates Libya’s secret service. (...) [57 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	Abdallah Kallel
	A former interior minister, Abdallah Kallel, has been named president of the new chamber of advisers at the last minute although the post had been promised to ex prime minister Hedi Baccouche. (...) [50 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	Dali Jazi
	In poor health, former defense minister Dali Jazi who had been tipped last spring as Tunisia’s new ambassador to France has been named chairman of the Economic and Social Council. (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Necib Malek
	Appointed by presidential decree on Aug. 8, general Necib Malek has taken over as commander of Algeria’s naval forces in succession to gen. (...) [29 words] [FREE]