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Gaelle Arenson
NORTH AFRICA Editor in Chief
Private Equity Moguls in Starting Blocks
Faced with economic crisis, North African private equity firms are seeking their second wind. Many gathered together in Tangiers on Oct. 23-24 at the initiative of Euromed Capital Forum, an association led by Dominique Nouvellet and Paul Tholy (who head the French equity firm Siparex) to take stock of the situation and examine “the prospects of a bounce-back. (...)   [572 words]   [$11,2]
TUNISIA
Canal Plus Teams Up with Amara
France’s pay television channel Canal Plus is seeking to operate in Tunisia and has teamed with Rafik Amara to do so. (...)

French Corporate Lawyers Line Up
   The number of French corporate law firms in Morocco looks set to increase in coming weeks even though the market is crowded already (Lefevre Pelletier & Associes, Gide Loyrette Nouel,  (...)  [185 words]   [$7]
South African Buyer for Telcom
   After a year of bargaining, the South African information and communications giant Dimension Data and Morocco’s TeleCom (Teledistribution et Communication) reached an agreement last  (...)  [183 words]   [$7]
Moto Honda Amazonas, a Brazilian affiliate of Japan’s Honda whose plant is located in Manaus, exported  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants has been handed the job of drafting a master plan for Moroccan universities,  (...)  [86 words]   [$2,1]
David Chow Kam Fai  -  The royal holding concern Siger claims that it pulled out of  (...)  [99 words]   [$2,1]
Jason Bitter  -  Appointed executive director of Air Arabia Maroc in July, Jason  (...)  [57 words]   [$2,1]
Hassan Buoud  -  The president of the Association Franco-Marocaine pour l’Industrie,  (...)  [52 words]   [$2,1]

My Minaret is Bigger than Yours
   Issued on Oct. 29 by the religious and Wakf affairs ministry, an invitation to tender for the Grand Mosque in Algiers has some outstanding specifications.  (...)  [232 words]   [$7]
Aigle Azur, an airline owned by Arezki and Meziane Idjerouidene, has formed a partnership with Germany’s  (...)  [36 words]   [$2,1]

Newcomer in Olive Oil Trade
   Already managing director of the Societe des Huiles du Nord, Zied Neffati has joined forces with Abdallah Hedda and Giuseppe Grassi, boss of the Italian firm Gasoli Giuseppe & C.  (...)  [208 words]   [$7]
UFI Group, a holding company owned by Tunisia’s Abdelaziz Essassi, wants to build a second five star  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
SCET, one of the leading Tunisian consultancies set up by Slaheddine Ben Said, has won contracts from  (...)  [68 words]   [$2,1]
Todini, an Italian construction engineering concern, is taking a close interest in the future Bizerte  (...)  [82 words]   [$2,1]
Lazhar Sta  -  A businessman born in the Sahel region, Lazhar Sta, and Kuwaiti  (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]

Rebuff for Tripoli - and FN Herstal
   Will the twists and turns in the FN Herstal affair end up by exasperating Mummar Kadhafi? Held up for long months by the Wallonia government of Rudy Demotte before being secretly approved  (...)  [214 words]   [$7]
Alex Carre de Malberg  -  In charge of investment banking at the Abu Dhabi Investment  (...)  [84 words]   [$2,1]

PROTOCOL OFFICE, SYRTE
Omar From Paint Brush to Protocol
   Mao Zedung and Richard Nixon invented ping pong diplomacy. Saif Al Islam Kadhafi is practicing that of the paint brush.  (...)  [205 words]   [$7]
FINANCE MINISTRY, RABAT
Stabilization Fund, Mezouar’s Bugbear
   Putting the final touches to the 2010 budget, finance minister Salaheddine Mezouar appears to have one thought in mind:  (...)  [193 words]   [$7]
TURKISH EMBASSY, ALGIERS
Ankara’s “Pin Pricks” to France
   Turkish officials in North Africa have reverted to the rhetoric of the Ottoman Empire to complain about France’s disinclination to let Turkey join the European Union.  (...)  [145 words]   [$7]
FRANCE
 Dalil Boubakeur
Is the rector of the Mosquee de Paris, Dalil Broubakeur, looking for a new post?  (...)  [117 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
 Mohamed Lamari
Algeria’s former armed forces chief of staff Mohamed Lamari could be coming close to the end of his  (...)  [79 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO/UNITED STATES
 Samuel Kaplan
Morocco’s highly political High Atlas Foundation that was started up by the American Peace Corps will  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
 Francois Cleret
The former personal doctor of Mohamed V and Hassen II, 91-year-old Francois Cleret was named commander  (...)  [91 words]   [$2,1]


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