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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 709 - 09/21/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Morocco : Whistle-Stop Visit for de Villepin

With only days to go before French prime minister Dominique de Villepin’s short visit to Morocco on Sept. 26-27 French officials aren’t saying anything about what he’s going to be doing there. (...) [343 words] [$4.7]

TUNISIA

Tunis : Watching Over NGOs

NGO members will have to carry ID swipe cards when they attend the World Information Summit to enable the authorities to keep close tabs on them. (...)

algiers

Bouteflika chooses new protocol chief

Maghreb Confidential understands that Mohamed Raouraoua will replace Rachid Maarif as president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s chief of protocol. (...) [69 words] [$1.5]

Concern after belkheir’s departure

The departure of Gen. Larbi Belkheir as chief-of-staff to president Bouteflika - he was named ambassador to Morocco - has stirred concern among his protégés working in state-owned concerns. (...) [72 words] [$1.5]

Cash injection for state-run banks

The government is going to inject cash into public banks for the second time in three years, probably in October. (...) [55 words] [$1.5]

Franco-algerian rail forum

The Federation des Industries Ferroviaires Francaises (FIF) and the French railway company SNCF are organizing a second rail and urban railway forum in Algiers on Sept. (...) [69 words] [$1.5]

rabat

Rabat seeks to widen range of goods for russia

Morocco is seeking to build up its exports of canned vegetables and fish to Russia, which is the kingdom’s leading customer for citrus fruit. (...) [138 words] [$1.5]

Belgian constructors eye tourism market

Between Sept. 19-23 around 20 Belgian construction companies sent executives on a prospecting tour of Morocco organized by the Brussels city region and the Flemish region. (...) [88 words] [$1.5]

tunis

World bank slams private firms

Visiting Tunisia to discuss the 2005-2008 development program, the World Bank’s North African chief, Theodore Ahlers, hit out at private Tunisian groups for failing to invest enough in their own country. (...) [32 words] [FREE]

Sotacib privatized at last

After a first bidding round fell through last year, the Tunisian government has sold the Societe Tuniso-Algerienne de Ciment Blanc (SOTACIB) to the Spanish group Prassa for DR100 million (EUR66 million). (...) [78 words] [$1.5]

Somocer seeks dubai listing

The Societe Moderne de Ceramique (Somocer), which is listed on the Tunis stock exchange, plans to float on the Dubai bourse in the hope of raising more capital. (...) [87 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	TUNISIA
	Vivendi Universal
	Vivendi Universal and Saudi Arabia’s Oger Telecommunications in tandem with Telecom Italia are bidding for a 35% stake in Tunisie Telecom. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Tunisie Lait
	Tunisie Lait, a bankrupt state-owned company, is going to be sold off. (...) [29 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	RSW
	a Canadian consultancy, has been contracted by the Office National Algerien de l’Assainissement to ensure the technical supervision of work on building a water purification station in the city of Skikda. (...) [44 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Air Algerie
	air algerie is selling off 27 aircraft, including two Airbus airliners, Boeing aircraft and seven Fokker 27-400s, along with spare parts, in their current condition. (...) [46 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	SCET
	SCET (Tunisia) has been selected by Agence National Algerienne des Barrages, the national dam firm, to study and monitor work on a project to supply drinking water to several towns in the Tizi Ouzou area. (...) [36 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	MSA Gallet
	MSA Gallet (France) is to supply 6,000 helmets equipped with lamps to the Algerian civil protection agency under a EUR1. (...) [24 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	CRAAG
	CRAAG (Centre Algeriene de Recherche en Astronomie, Astrophysique et Geophysique) has contracted France’s Leica Geosystems to supply and install geodesic equipment. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Quick
	Quick (Belgium) plans to set up shop in Algeria next March. (...) [41 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	Hedi Bouzid
	Tripoli has named a new consul in Paris, Hedi Bouzid. (...) [43 words] [FREE]


	UNITED STATES/MOROCCO
	Michael O’Neil
	We understgand that Michael O’Neil, a former legal director and chief-of-staff to the CIA director, has registered as a lobbyist for the American chemical phosphate group Innophos on Sept. (...) [120 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	Sakhr El Materi
	A close associate of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, Sakh El Materi has gone into politics by getting himself elected head of the Carthage branch of the ruling Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique party. (...) [59 words] [$1.5]


	LIBYA
	Shokri Ghanem
	Libyan prime minister Shokri Ghanem is gaining clout in the country’s oil industry which is run by a tandem consisting of energy minister Fethi Chatouane and Abdallah El Badri, boss of NOC. (...) [69 words] [$1.5]


	SWITZERLAND/TUNISIA
	Chedly Ben Younes
	The president of the Tunis-Montfleury section of the Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l’Homme (LTDH: (...) [45 words] [FREE]