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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 711 - 10/06/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Libya : Washington's Recipe for Good Business

The times have indeed changed for Muammer Kadhafi. "We need America’s friendship. The watchword is now reciprocal interests rather than confrontation," the Libyan leader stated on Sept. (...) [307 words] [$4.7]

TUNISIA

Tunisia: Debt Recovery Fiasco

Two years after launching a campaign to recover debt from individual borrowers Tunisian banks have collected DR40 million out of a total of DR4 billion. (...)

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Rivalry Between RND and FLN

The campaign for the referendum in Algeria shed light on sharp rivalry between the FLN and RND parties. (...) [76 words] [$1.5]

Temmar In Paris

At the advice of French foreign trade minister Christine Lagarde who recently visited Algiers, Abdelhamid Temmar, the minister in charge of promoting investment in Algeria, will organize a road show in Paris this month in the hope of winning buyers for companies up for privatisation. (...) [69 words] [$1.5]

rabat

Moroccans Out in Force at Car Parts Show

Highly experienced in assembling low-cost vehicles since Renault launched production of its Logan make in July, Morocco is to send around a dozen car equipment companies to the “Equip Auto” show in Paris between Oct. (...) [118 words] [$1.5]

No Lack of Donors

There’s quite a lot of competition among donors to find themselves in the good graces of Mohammed VI. (...) [109 words] [$1.5]

tunis

Go-Ahead For Second Refinery

A $1.3 billion project to build Tunisia’s second refinery with a capacity of 140,000 bpd has finally been approved despite long-standing opposition by energy minister Afif Chelbi who favored an increase in oil product imports to meet the rise in demand. (...) [87 words] [$1.5]

Government To Finance Textile Restructuring

To help cope with a huge influx of Chinese textiles, the government has rapidly pushed through new legislation that changes the conditions in which Fonds de Developpement de la Competitivite intervenes in the textile industry. (...) [92 words] [$1.5]

Big Franco-Tunisian Travel Jamboree

The French and Tunisian tourism ministers, Leon Bertrand and Tijani Haddad, agreed during the Topresa travel trade show in Deauville in late September to stage a major gathering for the industry in Tunisia next January. (...) [122 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	Total
	Total won a 27.8% stake in a Libyan oil block in a second licensing round involving the sale of 44 concessions. (...) [81 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	France Telecom
	France Telecom has joined Vivendi Universal, Bouygues Telecom, Telefonica, Portugal Telecom, Telecom Italia SPA/Oger Telecom and Itissalat Emiratia in competing to acquire a major stake in Tunisia Telecom. (...) [29 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Accor
	Accor is in talks with the Tunisian hotel chain Abou Nawas to take over management of three hotels, in Tunis, Gammarth and Kantaoui. (...) [24 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	BMCE
	BMCE, the Moroccan bank owned by Othman Benjelloun, signed a EUR30 million loan agreement with the European Investment Bank that is destined to finance small and medium-sized firms as part of the “European investment and partnership facility. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	UNITED STATES/LIBYA
	Conoco Philips
	Conoco Philips and other U.S. oil companies Marathon, Amerada Hess, Chevron, Texaco and Occidental Petroleum are to take part in setting up an American School in Libya under the supervision of the U. (...) [54 words] [$1.5]


	MOROCCO
	CFAO Maroc
	CFAO Maroc has bought out DAF Industries Maroc, which builds trucks and cars, and plans to restructure it. (...) [51 words] [$1.5]

WHO'S WHO


	UNITED STATES/LIBYA
	Amar El Tayef
	A former head of domestic security and now Libya’s tourism minister, Amar el Tayef, has met with a delegation of American tour operators interested in Libya (its coast and archaeological sites) and headed by Ross Connelly, executive vice president of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). (...) [64 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	Zidane Merrah
	An engineer by training, Zidane Merrah has just been named acting director of Office National Algerien de l’Assainissement (ONA) in succession to Ali Bekkouche. (...) [40 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/SPAIN
	Mohamed Haneche
	A former Algerian ambassador to Oman and Germany and ex adviser to the foreign ministry, Mohamed Haneche, has been named envoy to Madrid. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	UNITED STATES/MOROCCO
	Dennis Hays
	A retired American diplomat who is now managing director of the Tew Cardenas LLP law firm, Dennis Hays, registered as a lobbyist for the Moroccan American Center for Policy on Sept. (...) [93 words] [$1.5]