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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 716 - 11/10/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Libya : U.S & France Square Off for Security Market

U.S. Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice’s scheduled visit to Tripoli in coming weeks is likely to boost Washington’s “security” presence in the region, at France’s expense. (...) [307 words] [$4.7]

LIBYA

Lawyers Up In Arms

Libyan lawyers took to the street for the first time ever on October 7 in Tripoli to demand that they be allowed to choose their own union representatives in future. (...)

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The American center for Maghreb studies in Oran

Washington’s growing influence in North Africa has been fuelled in part by educational programs. (...) [76 words] [$1.5]

Medelci To Give Algeria Seminar a Miss

Algerian finance minister Mourad Medelci won’t turn up in Paris on Nov. (...) [165 words] [$1.5]

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North African textiles grapples with Chinese competition

Fifteen Moroccan companies turned out for the Fatex clothing show in Paris between Nov. (...) [135 words] [$1.5]

Moroccans now turn attention to Senegal’s shipping industry

Moroccan businessmen are now involving themselves in Senegal’s shipping sector after buying into the banking branch (BMCE Capital, the airline industry (Air Senegal International), building and public works (CCGT) and pharmaceuticals (West Africa Pharma). (...) [82 words] [$1.5]

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ENI eyes big investment

The Italian oil group ENI is going to step up its investments in Tunisia by laying out EUR 330 million for a project to extend the capacity of the Transmed gas pipeline. (...) [61 words] [$1.5]

How many new supermarkets?

Tunis is drafting a master plan to regulate the building of new supermarkets in the country. (...) [42 words] [FREE]

tripoli

Kadhafi wants to take part in Euromed summit

Libyan foreign minister Abderahmane Shalgam travelled to Brussels on Nov. (...) [68 words] [$1.5]

DST and DGSE have their local favorites

The French intelligence agencies have carried their local rivalry all the way across the Mediterranean to Libya. (...) [92 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	Valero Energy Corporation
	Valero Energy Corporation (US) has signed a purchase and sales contract for Algerian crude with Sonatrach. (...) [17 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Thales
	Thales (France) has been contracted by Algeria’s post and information technologies ministry to supply frequency control equipment worth EUR1. (...) [21 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	CAF/Alstom
	CAF/Alstom, a Spanish-French group, is to supply 17 diesel locomotives to the Algerian SNTF railway company under a contract partially funded by FAD, the Spanish overseas development fund, to the tune of EUR102 million. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	LIBYA
	Total
	Total has just made a sixth oil discovery on block NC 186 operated by Spain’s Repsol in the Murzuk basin in Libya. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Nortel, SNEF France, SNEF Algeria
	Nortel, SNEF France, SNEF Algeria are going to conduct the study and supply telecommunications equipment for the El Gourzi-Touggourt line in southern Algeria on behalf of SNTF. (...) [62 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	Passavant-Roediger
	Passavant-Roediger (Germany) has won a contract from Algeria’s ONA worth DR149 million and EUR 3. (...) [27 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	L’Algerienne des Eaux
	L’Algerienne des Eaux has contracted the consortium SAFEGE ING Conseils (France)/BHP Boukhedra (Algeria) to supervise and approve work on constructing a system to supply drinking water to the cities of Constantine and Mila. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	SNC Lavalin/Pridesa
	SNC Lavalin/Pridesa (Spain/Canada) are to build a $145 million water desalination plant in Algeria. (...) [15 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	CTKD
	CTKD, a Tunisian-Kuwaiti development consortium, is in advanced talks with the Italian tour operator Springtours for the acquisition of the Sabrine Club in Djerba. (...) [25 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	SOUTH AFRICA/ALGERIA
	Elizabeth Thabethe
	South Africa’s deputy trade and industry minister, Elizabeth Thabethe, will be in Algiers between Nov. (...) [86 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	Ali Tounsi
	The director general of Algeria’s Surete Nationale (DGSN) security service, Ali Tounsi, summoned the heads of his agency’s departments to the senior police academy at Chateauneuf on Nov. (...) [63 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA/INDIA
	Shok Kumar Amrohi
	India’s new ambassador to Algiers, Shok Kumar Amrohi, was received by industry minister Mahmoud Khedri on Nov. (...) [68 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	Slim Tlatli
	Up to now state secretary for upgrading tourism infrastructure, Slim Tlatli has been named adviser to the president for major projects. (...) [48 words] [$1.5]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	Abderrahim Harouchi
	Morocco’s social development minister, Abderrahim Harouchi was due to moderate a conference on the Initiative Nationale de Developpement Humain (INDH), which was recently launched by king Mohamed VI, at the ESCP-EAT in Paris on Nov. (...) [43 words] [FREE]