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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 720 - 12/08/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Algiers : Cards To Be Reshuffled in Telecoms Market

Algeria’s telecommunications industry is set to experience an upheaval of sorts in coming months. Roughly 15% of state-controlled Algerie Telecom (AT) will be put on sale, probably in February, in what will be the biggest-ever privatisation operation in the country. (...) [353 words] [$4.7]

FRANCE/MOROCCO

Fake Moroccan Goods

French trade minister Francois Loos met with his Moroccan counterpart S. Mezouar in Casablanca to talk on stemming the tide of counterfeit goods from the country. (...)

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Friendship treaty with France in February

A long-awaited friendship treaty between France and Algeria is now expected to be initialled in February. (...) [35 words] [FREE]

French groups tipped for East-West motorway deal

Maghreb Confidential understands that a French group will be contracted to build the 1,000-km east-to-west motorway. (...) [30 words] [FREE]

International public works fair

Around 100 companies were expected to display their ways at the 3rd international public works fair in Algiers between Dec. (...) [62 words] [$1.5]

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Banon in Russia-US Tourism Project

Gabriel Banon, former adviser to Yassar Arafat who was named an adviser in June to the Russian Federation’s economic security council, seems on the point of putting together his project for a $160 million “Club Tamesloht Resort” near Marrakech. (...) [81 words] [$1.5]

Proparco and BNP Paribas co-finance SAMIR upgrade

Proparco, BNP Paribas, Barclays Capital, BMCE, Attijariwafa Bank, the BCP and ADB agreed in Paris on Dec. (...) [53 words] [$1.5]

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Second-tier stock market in Tunis

The Tunis stock exchange will shortly inaugurate a second-tier market. (...) [50 words] [$1.5]

Seminar on electronics trade

Electronics companies were to meet in Tunis on Dec. 8 to mull integrating international distribution circuits. (...) [60 words] [$1.5]

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Kadhafi puts up Chirac in Bamako

President Jacques Chirac and the other heads of state and government taking part in the Africa-France summit in Bamako on Dec. (...) [187 words] [$1.5]

How to work with NOC

A lot of thought seems to have gone into the question of how France can benefit from the growth of Libya’s oil sector ($10 billion is to be invested in it over the coming five years) and climb out of its mediocre 6th ranking among Tripoli’s leading suppliers. (...) [150 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	Datops
	Datops, a European group specializing in monitoring software and in strategic analysis, will take part in a business intelligence meeting organized by the Association Espagnole pour le Progres des Dirigeants in Casablanca on Dec. (...) [54 words] [$1.5]


	MOROCCO
	Ares
	Ares, a firm specializing in new information and communication technologies, has set up shop in Morocco. (...) [17 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/UNITED STATES
	Louis Berger International
	Louis Berger International, an American consultancy, has just been awarded a series of public works contracts in Algeria, including one to assist the Agence Nationale des Autoroutes (ANA) in building the $7 billion East-West motorway. (...) [36 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	JGC
	JGC (Japan), SNC Lavalin (Canada) and the German groups Siemens and Ferrostaal are vying for a contract to build a combined cycle power plant at Hassi R’Mel in south-east Algeria. (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	LIBYA
	Protaso
	Protaso (Malaysia) has won two contracts for road maintenance and the rehabilitation of six bridges from Libya’s General Company for Roads and Bridges. (...) [32 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	TUNISIA
	Mohamed Gontara
	A former student and teacher at Tunisia’s press and information sciences institute, Mohamed Gontara, has taken up the post of information adviser to foreign minister Abdelwahab Abdallah. (...) [60 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	Mounir Boudjema
	The chief editor of the “Algiers” desk at the newspaper Quotidien d’Oran, Mounir Boudjema, has been approached to take over as editor of the daily Liberte presently headed by Ali Quafek (publisher) and Ghania Khelifi (chief editor). (...) [86 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	Abdelwahab Abdallah
	Former spokesman for president Zine Abedine Ben Ali, Abdelwahab Abdallah, who is now the country’s foreign minister, hasn’t lost his touch as a PR man. (...) [79 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	Christian Berlinet
	French diplomat Christian Berlinet has been named France’s new consul-general in Tunis. (...) [22 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	Suleiman Al Herbish
	The director of the OPEC Fund for International Development, Suleiman Al Herbish, met with Moroccan prime minister Driss Jettou on Dec. (...) [58 words] [$1.5]