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Gaelle Arenson
TUNISIA Editor in Chief
All-Out Battle Between Ben Ali Friends & Foes
If the Carthage Palace is already preparing to celebrate Zine el Abedine Ben Ali’s victory for a fifth term in office on Oct. 25, Paris has become an electoral battlefield of sorts for Tunisians. Opponents and supporters of the regime gathered at the Political Sciences institute in Paris on Oct. (...)   [605 words]   [$11,2]
ALGERIA
Green Grocers Tackle EU Market
Fruit and vegetable growers on the rich farmland on the Mitidja plains are keen on promoting their goods in Europe. (...)

Fishermen from Tan Tan in Lorient
   Fishermen from Tan Tan in Morocco are seeking to increase their catches - in Britanny. Several elected officials from the city in southern Morocco were due to attend the Itech’mer  (...)  [195 words]   [$7]
Austrians Display their Wares
   Austria’s industry has taken the measure of moves by Algeria to apply the brakes to imports and to promote local industry.  (...)  [139 words]   [$7]
Vexcel, an affiliate of Microsoft that deals in aerial and space photographic equipment (Ultracam photogrammetric  (...)  [43 words]   [$2,1]
Sonatrach, the Algerian state-owned oil company, and France's Total plan to sign a shareholder pact  (...)  [124 words]   [$2,1]
Issad Rebrab  -  The agri-business tycoon and boss of Cevital, Issad Rebrab,  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]

Banking Trade under S&P Microscope
   Issued on Oct. 19, the latest report by the credit rating agency Standard & Poors (S&P) on Tunisia’s banking industry underscored the problems continuing to dog the sector.  (...)  [208 words]   [$7]
Eurogroup, a Paris consultancy that specializes in management strategy and corporate organization, is  (...)  [48 words]   [$2,1]
Metinvest, a Swiss firm that trades in steel, is to open a representation office in Tunis as well as  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
MAHC, the Mansour al Malik Holding Company owned by Saudi Arabian businessman Mansour al Malik, is seeking  (...)  [126 words]   [$2,1]
Golcem Djaziri Ksontini  -  The government’s representrative on the board of the Banque  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
Ali Slama  -  Businessman Ali Slama, who is also vice president of the UTICA  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]

IRD Engineering Steps in for Stucky
   The Italian consultancy IRD Engineering has won a EUR 670,000 contract to oversee work on repairing the Derna and Bu Mansour dams in the Benghazi region in eastern Libya.  (...)  [178 words]   [$7]
Italy Sees Industry & Tourism Bonanza
   A 28-member delegation led by Italy’s state secretary for foreign trade, Adolfo Urso, returned with high hopes after visiting Tripoli on Oct.  (...)  [208 words]   [$7]
Khaled Fareg Zentuti  -  The chairman of Libya’s Long Term Investment Portfolio, Khaled  (...)  [149 words]   [$2,1]

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, LONDON
Talks with Tripoli on IRA Issue
   With the controversy over the return of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al Megrahi barely off the boil, another dispute has arisen between the United Kingdom and the Libyan government:  (...)  [188 words]   [$7]
THE FRENCH SENATE, PARIS
Paris to Offer Libyans Security Advice
   While Russia has beaten out France in the competition to supply Libya with fighter aircraft - Tripoli has ordered 20-odd Sukhoi planes instead of France’s Rafale - the French are in the leading position to “export” their security know-how to Libya.  (...)  [189 words]   [$7]
CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE MEDITERRANEEN, NICE
Estrosi’s Blessings to Secular Islam
   The first big gathering of the Federation Nationale Laique des Citoyens de Sensibilite Musulmane (Mosaic: National Secular Islamic Federation) will be held at the Centre Universitaire Mediterraneen in Nice on Oct.  (...)  [143 words]   [$7]
ARGENTINA/MOROCCO
Baruch Tenembaum
Run out of Buenos Aires by Baruch Tenembaum, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation has awarded  (...)  [94 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/TUNISIA
Florence Beauge
The journalist for Le Monde, who had been sent to Tunisia to cover the presidential election on Oct  (...)  [97 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
Oussama Romdhani
Stripped of his post of minister of communications and relations with Parliament, Rafaa Dkhil was replaced  (...)  [161 words]   [$2,1]


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