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Gaelle Arenson
MOROCCO Editor in Chief
Majidi’s Grip on Press Distribution
Already under pressure from the king’s censors, press circles are fretting because the ownership of the country’s two biggest newspaper distributors, Sochepress and Sapress, looks set to change before the end of the year, according to industry specialists. (...)   [552 words]   [$11,2]
TUNISIA
Tunis Jumps on Solar Bandwagon
Tunisia appears determined to embrace the virtues of solar energy. The country’s industry and energy ministry, headed by Afif Chelbi, will unveil Tunisia’s solar energy plan on De (...)

Information Technology Jamboree
   Moroccan firms dealing in information and communication technology are putting their wares on display. Between Nov. 3-5, they are to stage an international fair dubbed Med-IT at the  (...)  [212 words]   [$7]
Hit Radio Exports its Rap to Belgium
   For some weeks now a new station is broadcasting on the 94.9 frequency in Namur, capital of the Belgian region of Wallonia.  (...)  [188 words]   [$7]
Precom, a firm owned by Najib Senhadji which specializes in publishing tourist guidebooks, has teamed  (...)  [138 words]   [$2,1]
GIFIC, the Groupement Interprofessionnel des Fournisseurs de l’Industrie Chimique Francaise, is organizing  (...)  [87 words]   [$2,1]

ABEF Wants Expats to Invest at Home
   In the wake of restrictions on foreign investments, Algeria seems intent on promoting the creation of companies that are wholly-owned by Algerians.  (...)  [210 words]   [$7]
Anadarko, the U.S. oil company, is interested in bidding for 10 concessions that were put on the auction  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
Isaad Rebrab  -  Algeria's agribusinesses kings, Isaad Rebrab (Civital), Hamid  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]

Orange Puts Out Call to Suppliers
   The winner of Tunisia’s third telecommunications license, Orange Tunisie, a partnership between France’s Orange and Divona Telecom owned by Marouane Mabrouk, has issued an appeal to  (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
Afrimar, a Tunisian shipping group owned by Taoufik Salah, sits on the board of the Institut Mediterraneen  (...)  [66 words]   [$2,1]
Hechmi Djilani  -  Son of Hedi Djilani, boss of the Tunisian employers association,  (...)  [144 words]   [$2,1]
Slaheddine Bezrati  -  Slaheddine and Mourad Bezrati are diversifying their busine  (...)  [62 words]   [$2,1]

Libyans Sign Up for Deal on Antonovs
   Ukraine has done some fast foot-work in Libya. Only a few weeks after the visit of prime minister Yulia Timoshenko to Tripoli in September, Libya’s Parliament has endorsed an agreement  (...)  [158 words]   [$7]
LAP Green, a telecommunications affiliate of the Libyan African Investment Portfolio (Laaico), is in  (...)  [50 words]   [$2,1]

Arie Flack  -  According to our sources, the boss of Compagnie Financiere du  (...)  [140 words]   [$2,1]

FRENCH PARLIAMENT, PARIS
Paris' "Schizophrénic" Ties with Algiers
   "Franco-Algerian relations sometimes border on a type of schizophrenia," claimed legislator Herve Gaymard in France’s parliament on Oct.  (...)  [186 words]   [$7]
AMERICAN EMBASSY, BERN
Obama Referees Swiss-Libya Game
   The president of the Swiss confederation, Hans Rudolph Merz, is trying every way he can to put an end to a dispute between Switzerland and Libya.  (...)  [160 words]   [$7]
INTERIOR MINISTRY, ALGIERS
Nerve-Wracking Days for Security Men
   Algeria’s security system, the true backbone of the government, is coming under increasing pressure. On Oct. 20, riots broke out in the Diar Echems neighbourhood in Algiers and on Oct.  (...)  [182 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
Jean-Francois Julliard
The secretary-general of Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF), Jean-Francois Julliard, triggered a debate  (...)  [127 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
Shokri Ghanem
Having just been propelled into the number two spot in the Libyan regime (in theory), Saif El Islam  (...)  [115 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
Selim Ben Hassen Bourguiba
The founder of the Sciences-Po Monde Arabe association isn’t the grand nephew of former president Habib  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE
Roland Blum
A legislator in the Bouches du Rhone constituency, Roland Blum, didn’t travel to Algiers, as initially  (...)  [69 words]   [$2,1]


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