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Gaelle Arenson
NORTH AFRICA Editor in Chief
A True Power Play in the Sun
What will be the Copenhagen summit’s impact on the southern banks of the Mediterranean? Manufacturers of solar power plants can hardly contain their excitement. As Maghreb Confidential anticipated (MC 887), the North African countries are among the first in line to win from the bonanza generated by interest in renewable energy. (...)   [622 words]   [$11,2]
MOROCCO
Scooping Up Expatriates’ Cash
Estimated at EUR 4.73 billion in 2008, the remittances of Moroccans living and working overseas are attracting ever-more lustful eyes. (...)

Finatech Has Big Plans Up Its Sleeve
   The computer engineering group Finatech sees a lot of scope for growth on international markets. Headed by Rachid Sefrioui, the company intends to soon plant its flag in Libya and  (...)  [158 words]   [$7]
Indra and Isolux, two Spanish firms, have won a contract from Morocco’s Office National de l’Electricite  (...)  [42 words]   [$2,1]
Hassan Benabderrazik  -  The founder and main partner of the Agroconcept consultancy,  (...)  [118 words]   [$2,1]

Americans Look at Water as Well as Oil
   American companies aren’t interested exclusively in Algeria’s oil and energy. AJGB International, an environmental engineering concern based in Seattle and run by Alejandro J.  (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
ETRHB Haddad, an Algerian construction company headed by Ali Haddad, cancelled between 4,000 and 5,000  (...)  [61 words]   [$2,1]
Ali Rezaiguia  -  Former financial director of the state-owned Algerian oil company  (...)  [82 words]   [$2,1]
Sylvie Solignac  -  France’s Banque Postale will send the head of its international  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]

Boujbel Poorer by One Hotel
   Times are tough for Said Boujbel. Boss of the Boujbel group, one of Tunisia’s leading family-owned companies that is highly active in the tourism industry, he is going to lose one  (...)  [231 words]   [$7]
Clear Road Ahead for Todini
   The Italian construction group Todini is doing very well for itself in Tunisia. According to our sources, Todini, which is building the motorway section between M’Saken and Karkar  (...)  [197 words]   [$7]
SETEC, a French engineering consultancy, has just opened an affiliate in Tunisia, SETEC Mediterranee  (...)  [58 words]   [$2,1]
Opinion Leader, a British consultancy specializing in opinion polls, has won a contract from the Tunisian  (...)  [66 words]   [$2,1]
Bukhatir Group is beginning to form its network of suppliers in Tunisia.  (...)  [46 words]   [$2,1]
Cettex, the technical center of Tunisia’s textiles trade, has just released its financial results for  (...)  [73 words]   [$2,1]
Mohamed Mzabi  -  The sons of businessman Moncef Mzabi are about to boost their  (...)  [75 words]   [$2,1]

French Push on Security Market
   It could well be a side effect of an accord between France and Libya to cooperate on security matters that was ratified by the French Senate on Oct.  (...)  [163 words]   [$7]
ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE, PARIS
Surprise Resignation at IMA
   Decidedly, the double hat of Dominique Baudis, who serves as a Euro MP and president of the Arab World Institute (Institut du Monde Arabe) in Paris, is continuing to make waves in the organization.  (...)  [182 words]   [$7]
THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT, PARIS
Aid with Strings to Tunis & Rabat
   A senior official concerned with the overseas development section of France’s 2010 budget, the Socialist legislator Henri Emmanuelli carefully examined ways that loans were made from the Reserve des Pays Emergents (RPE).  (...)  [156 words]   [$7]
FRENCH PARLIAMENT, PARIS
Paris-Algiers Pact Still Stalled
   Chaired by Socialist legislator Bernard Derosier, the France-Algeria friendship association in the French Parliament is due to hear the Algerian ambassador to France, Missoum Sbih, on Dec.  (...)  [190 words]   [$7]
FRANCE/MOROCCO
Antoine Sfeir
The publisher of Cahiers de l’Orient, a French quarterly focusing on the Arab world, is preparing a  (...)  [164 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE/ALGERIA
Jean-Noel Guerini
the Socialist president of the General Council in the Bouches-du-Rhone region, Jean-Noel Guerini, who  (...)  [105 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
Mohamed Kadhafi
The director of the Libyan Postal Telecom & Information Technology Co.  (...)  [97 words]   [$2,1]


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