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Gaelle Arenson
TUNISIA Editor in Chief
An Abundance of Private Hospitals
The race is on to see who will inaugurate the Tunisian capital’s first private hospital. Investors are pouring money into the highly profitable business, which has seen demand going through the roof. Medical tourism draws 120,000 foreigners to Tunisia’s private clinics each year, or a good quarter of all their customers. (...)   [582 words]   [$11,2]
TUNISIA
High Hopes for Stock Market
Could stocks on Tunisia’s stock exchange climb into record territory in 2010? Local financiers, who had only two initial public offerings (IPOs) to chew on 2009 - those of Servicom (...)

French Train Industry Speeds Ahead
   Thanks to loans with strings, the Moroccan market for tramway, suburban trains and a high speed TGV system looks like offering a bonanza of sorts to French railway bosses.  (...)  [223 words]   [$7]
Blue Bell, a perfumery and beauty products boutique, will shortly open its doors in the posh neighbourhood  (...)  [101 words]   [$2,1]
M’hamed Loultiti  -  The brand-new Commission Consultative de la Regionalisation  (...)  [137 words]   [$2,1]

Seeking new start for Madrid-Algiers ties
   A meeting between Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Madrid on Jan. 7 could well prove to be an exercise in pragmatism.  (...)  [209 words]   [$7]
SNC Lavalin, the Canadian engineering group, has suffered a new blow in Algeria.  (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]

STB Gets Tough With Debtors
   Times are hard for Tunisian hotel owners. After Mohsen Boujbel, who was forced to sell one of his establishments to pay his debt to Societe Tunisienne de Banque (STB) (MC 905), Slaheddine  (...)  [174 words]   [$7]
CEPEX, Tunisia’s center for the promotion of exports, is organizing a prospecting trip to Kinshasa in  (...)  [45 words]   [$2,1]
Al Mal Investment Co., a Kuwaiti equity fund, is building up its presence in Tunisia by founding the  (...)  [66 words]   [$2,1]
Mhirsi Group, owned by the Tunisian businessman Mehdi Mhirsi, has just opened two new subsidiaries specializing  (...)  [51 words]   [$2,1]
Congoo, a biotechnology start-up based in Delaware, is seeking to build facilities to produce gasoline  (...)  [43 words]   [$2,1]
Taoufik Chaibi  -  The boss of the UTIC group (which holds the Carrefour franchise,  (...)  [87 words]   [$2,1]
Frej Maalej  -  The country’s pharmaceutical industry is already pretty crowded  (...)  [56 words]   [$2,1]

Why Does France Struggle in Tripoli?
   Libya’s “friends” in French business circles may be banging on the door of Muammar Kadhafi’s tent but it hasn’t yet opened for them.  (...)  [192 words]   [$7]
Turkish Builder Bids to Corner Market
   The improvement in relations between Turkey and Libya marked by Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Tripoli in November has cheered the hearts of Turkish construction  (...)  [203 words]   [$7]
Matthias Meyer  -  The German ambassadors to Tripoli, Matthias Meyer, and to Algiers,  (...)  [140 words]   [$2,1]

GRAND MOSQUE IN PARIS
Who'll Replace Dalil Boubakeur?
   There’s no lack of candidates to replace the director of the Grande Mosquee de Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, who is expected to step down by the end of March.  (...)  [182 words]   [$7]
ROYAL PALACE, MARRAKECH
King Muddies W. Saharan Waters
   “When I want to bury a problem I create a committee,” was one of Georges Clemenceau’s favourite expressions.  (...)  [166 words]   [$7]
PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, NOUAKCHOTT
A Snub to the Saharawi Arab Republic?
   Is Mauritania in the process of scrapping its traditional neutrality on the question of Western Sahara? The issue has stirred deep concern in Algeria ever since a legislator from the ruling party in Mauritania’s parliament, Moustapha Ould Abdel Aziz, called on the government to “withdraw its recognition of the Saharawi Arab Republic.  (...)  [154 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
 Abdelhamid El Ouali
A member of the new Commission Consultative de la Regionalisation (see opposite), the academic Abdelhamid  (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
 Youssef Chakir
The former Libyan dissident Youssef Chakir, who returned to the fold in 2008, has just been named to  (...)  [108 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
 Menouar Alem
The Moroccan ambassador to the European Union will represent North Africa at a "forum of think tanks"  (...)  [145 words]   [$2,1]


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