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Gaelle Arenson
MOROCCO Editor in Chief
Revolt by Moroccan Expatriates
Grievances are being voiced increasingly among the 3.2 million Moroccans who live abroad, and who have their minds riveted on legislative elections in 2012. On Dec. 11-12, the Daba 2012 movement speaking for hundreds of expatriate associations, will hold a gathering in Casablanca, on the heels of its “Paris appeal” on Sept. (...)   [591 words]   [$11,2]
MOROCCO
BRIC Nations Get Car Act Together
Morocco’s traditional car dealerships are feeling the heat. Importers of cars from the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries have just set up their own trade associatio (...)

Oil Companies Aren't Ruled Out
   Despite all the buzz when energy minister Amina Benkhadra presented a renewable energy program costing “9 billion dollars” on Nov.  (...)  [203 words]   [$7]
AFD (Agence Francaise de Developpement) has granted a new loan of EUR 50 million to the Al Omrane Holding  (...)  [134 words]   [$2,1]
Hit Radio, the Moroccan radio "wholly devoted" to youth that Younes Boumehdi set up, is winning a wider  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]
Abdelali Khalil  -  The managing director of Veolia Transport in Morocco, Abdelali  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]

An Algiers-Kiev Gas Connection?
   Are Ukraine and Algeria forging a gas alliance behind Moscow’s back? The state-owned gas utility Naftogaz Ukrainy has just announced it had won a green light from Agence Nationale  (...)  [185 words]   [$7]
Ali Aoun  -  Chief executive of the state-owned pharmaceutical company Saidal  (...)  [87 words]   [$2,1]

A Full-Time Job for Nesrine
   Tunisian “tycoon” Sakher el Materi, is once again adding to his media empire. Already owner of the Islamic radio station Zitouna and owner of Dar Assabah, which publishes the newspapers  (...)  [189 words]   [$7]
Qatar Diar to Turn Page on Emaar?
   Are equity funds from Qatar likely to succeed where other groups from the United Arab Emirates have stumbled? The sovereign fund Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is displaying a close  (...)  [232 words]   [$7]
Tecaero Tunisie is a new firm specializing in aeronautical engineering.  (...)  [52 words]   [$2,1]
UKTI (UK Trade and Investment) is strengthening its ties with Tunisia.  (...)  [50 words]   [$2,1]
Precontraints du Maghreb is the name of a new Tunisian company founded by the Italian businessmen Isnardo  (...)  [69 words]   [$2,1]
Larbi Nasra  -  Now that he has just been made a “Commander of the Order of  (...)  [72 words]   [$2,1]
Moncef El Materi  -  The officer Moncef El Materi, who graduated from the same class  (...)  [98 words]   [$2,1]
Abdelmajid Ismail  -  Businessman Abdelmajid Ismail has just set up a hotel firm  (...)  [61 words]   [$2,1]

A Metro as Xmas Gift for Vinci?
   The nerves of the French construction giant Vinci are being tested as Christmas approaches. According to our sources, Libya will choose the group that is to build the first metro  (...)  [195 words]   [$7]
ROYAL STUD FARM, BOUZNIKA, MOROCCO
Ouadoud, a Diplomatic Horse
   The new go-between Rabat and Paris is six years of age and is named Ouadoud. The barb horse (the breed that Mohamed VI prefers) is due to arrive any day now in France as the palace’s latest gift to Paris, at a moment when the two countries are finding it hard ton agree on a visit by Mohammed to the French capital.  (...)  [188 words]   [$7]
ROYAL PALACE, RABAT
Mohammed Takes Aim at Polisario
   On the day after the 34th anniversary of Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara, king Mohammed VI fired a broadside against Polisario.  (...)  [149 words]   [$7]
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE, PARIS
A New Term for Baudis?
   In March, Dominique Baudis, president of the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) in Paris, who was campaigning for the European parliamentary elections, said that he saw “no shocking contradiction between the action of the European Parliament and that of the Arab World Institute.  (...)  [199 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO/FRANCE
 Driss El Yazami
Between Nov. 17 and April 18 of next year, the Cite Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration de Paris  (...)  [116 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
 Aboubakr Younes Jaber
Everybody appears to be lining up behind Saif El Islam Kadhafi.  (...)  [84 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
 Nourreddine Ayouch
Head of the communications agency Lowe Shem’s and president of the NGO Zakoura Education, Noureddine  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
 Omar Balafrej
One of USFP party’s 40-somethings members and director of the Technopark de Casablanca, Omar Balafrej  (...)  [66 words]   [$2,1]


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