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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 717 - 11/17/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Breton and a Brace of Business Bosses in Algiers

Despite the Algerian debt it has converted into investment and its offers of soft loans worth EUR2 billion, France is finding it hard to benefit from Algeria’s $55 billion in foreign currency reserves and its big new infrastructure projects. (...) [304 words] [$4.7]

ALGERIA

Criminalizing Smuggling

The Algerian government says a new bill to “criminalize” smuggling is aimed at stamping out traffic in Moroccan cannabis headed for Europe via Algeria. (...)

algiers

State-controlled banks still dominate market

The managing director of BNP Paribas El Djazair, Francois-Edouard Drion, described the state of play in Algeria’s private banking business during a seminar on Algeria held by Ubifrance on Nov. (...) [150 words] [$1.5]

Medef international’s favors forum as partner

Algeria’s Forum des Chefs d’Entreprises (FCE) headed by Omar Ramdane was the organization that represented big private Algerian companies during the Ubifrfance/Medef International-Algeria encounter in Paris on Nov. (...) [84 words] [$1.5]

rabat

Morocco contributes $20 million to U.S. “fund for the future”

Rabat has agreed to put up $20 million towards the $100 million “Fund for the Future” launched in Bahrain on Nov. (...) [48 words] [$1.5]

Morocco’s travel trade displays its wares in U.K.

A dozen Moroccan tour operators were present at the World Travel Market, an annual gathering in London, between Nov. (...) [104 words] [$1.5]

Get-together for Moroccan-French business chiefs

Leading figures in the French and Moroccan business worlds were roped in by Mehdi Qotbi from the Cercle d’Amitie Franco-Marocain for a get-together at the CCIP in Paris on Nov. (...) [96 words] [$1.5]

tunis

RCD’s new boss in Paris

Mohamed Liman has succeeded Hadi Slim as head of the RCD (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique) in Paris. (...) [40 words] [FREE]

A wall to protect Geant-Tunis supermarket?

Falling increasingly victim to vandals and shop-lifters, the management of the Geant-Tunis supermarket (Mabrouk group) is thinking of building a long wall topped by barbed wire to keep out the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in the western part of Tunis. (...) [65 words] [$1.5]

tripoli

Saif El Islam and Ghanem take on parliament

Prime minister Shukri Ghanem has just liquidated three investment and trade companies controlled by the Revolutionary Committees (Parliament) and Libya’s security services. (...) [145 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	Chambre Francaise de Commerce et d’Industrie au Maroc
	Chambre Francaise de Commerce et d’Industrie au Maroc will play host on Nov. (...) [74 words] [$1.5]


	SOUTH AFRICA
	Vodacom
	Vodacom, the leading mobile telephone operator in South Africa, is seeking investment opportunities in North Africa and particularly in Algeria. (...) [21 words] [FREE]


	CHINA/FRANCE
	OTV/CGCS
	OTV/CGCS (France/China) has been contracted by the Office National Algerien de l’Assainissement to build a water treatment station in Skikda in eastern Algeria under a contract worth DR360 million and EUR 6. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/TURKEY
	Degremont-Mapa
	Degremont-Mapa (France/Tunisia) is to build 956 housing units in the Algiers suburb of Draria on behalf of the Agence Nationale Algerienne de l’Amelioration et du Developpement du Logement (AADL). (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	DGSN
	DGSN in Algeria has contracted the French firm Fralex to supply goods for mechanical data processing under a EUR 170,000 contract. (...) [22 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	BULL
	Bull is to install a data communication system for the Centre National Algerien du Registre de Commerce. (...) [18 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	INEUM Consulting
	INEUM Consulting (France) has been chosen by the Algerian customs service to assist it as part of a program to improve the way the country’s fiscal system is run. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	The Sancella group
	The Sancella group owned by Tunisian businessman Aziz Zouheir that specializes in disposable sanitary goods (Peaudouce diapers, etc. (...) [46 words] [$1.5]

WHO'S WHO


	NORTH AFRICA/FRANCE
	Francois Gouyette
	The new French ambassador in charge of the Barcelona process at the foreign ministry, Francois Gouyette, is trying to mobilize British prime minister Tony Blair’s staff to help prepare a summit meeting in Barcelona on Nov. (...) [61 words] [$1.5]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	Jean-Paul Bailly
	Members of a new “Franco-Moroccan economic impetus group” chaired by Jean-Rene Fourtou (Vivendi Universal) and Mustapha Bakkoury (CDG) met at Vivendi’s headquarters in Paris on Nov. (...) [98 words] [$1.5]


	LIBYA
	Khaled Khouildi Hamidi
	The son of general Khouildi Hamidi, Libya’s intelligence coordinator, Khaled Khouildi Hamidi, has abandonned his plans to get engaged to the only daughter of Muammer Kadhafi, Aicha. (...) [57 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA/RUSSIA
	Yuri Shafranik
	The president of the Russian Union of Oil and Gas Producers association, Yuri Shafranik, met with Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil in Algiers on Nov. (...) [28 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Said Nasser Ramadhane
	A member of Tunisia’s new Chamber of Counsellors, Said Nasser Ramadhane, lost his post on the staff of the foreign minister when taking up the appointment at the Chamber. (...) [46 words] [$1.5]