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Gaelle Arenson
LIBYA Editor in Chief
When unfrozen assets still remain frozen
The unfreezing of assets doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone’s back in business. Companies that hoped to resume operating in Libya with the payment of billions of dollars that Libya salted away abroad (MC 998) are going to have to wait for a while to pocket their money. (...)   [530 words]   [$11,2]
ALGERIA
Raffarin may run into closed doors
Is former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin likely to get much change when he visits Algiers on February 1? Asked by Nicolas Sarkozy to break the logjam concerning several (...)

Norwegian NGO targets K&L Gates
   After launching a campaign against Innophos which buys phosphates from Western Sahara, the Norwegian NGO Western Sahara Resources Watch (WSRW) is now taking on its lobbyist, K&L Gates  (...)  [191 words]   [$7]
Kouninef plans sugar war with Cevital
   A highly diversified holding company headed by Redha Kouninef (who boasts of his closeness to Abdelaziz Bouteflika (MC 869), the Kouninef group has bought two of the three sugar refineries  (...)  [177 words]   [$7]
Benamor, an Algerian food and drink group headed by Mohamed Laid Benamor, plans to build a 2,000-bed  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
Wagon Pars, an Iranian manufacturer of train locomotives and cars, is thinking of building an assembly  (...)  [64 words]   [$2,1]

Ben Arfa back in harness as consultant
   The former boss of Societe Tunisienne d’Electricite et de Gaz (STEG), the national utility, Othman Ben Arfa has tiptoed back into the energy business.  (...)  [159 words]   [$7]
Mohamed Dahmani-Fathallah  -  Tunisian graduates of Harvard are getting their act together.  (...)  [101 words]   [$2,1]
Antoine Courcelle-Labrousse  -  The director of the new Tunisian outpost of the International  (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
Hamadi Jebali  -  The government of Tunisian prime minister Hamadi Jebali is about  (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]

Google lends hand to NTC
   The “new” Libya could shortly get a leg-up from Google to put its administrative services on line. Maghreb Confidential has learned that Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of the Internet  (...)  [212 words]   [$7]
Development Bank, a state-owned establishment in Libya, is thinking of launching an "industry support  (...)  [44 words]   [FREE]
Libyan Central Bank (LCB) and the country's finance ministry are thinking of proceeding with an international  (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]
Osama Al Jouili  -  Libyan defense minister Osama Al Jouili has decided to impound  (...)  [60 words]   [$2,1]

Dana Petroleum is counting on doubling its output to 100,000 barrels per day by 2016 and on spending  (...)  [80 words]   [$2,1]

NTC HEADQUARTERS, TRIPOLI
Can Abdeljalil hold on until June?
   The National Transition Council is going through a bad patch. It is feeling increasingly isolated and a flurry of sit-ins by students in Benghazi, Tripoli and Misurata has begun to seriously hamper its actions.  (...)  [236 words]   [$7]
NTC HEADQUARTERS, TRIPOLI
Fresh mayhem undermines Al Keeb
   Cases of murder and kidnapping in recent days have undermined the authority of prime minister Abdel Rahim El Keeb’s government, which is also grapping with the issues of frozen assets (see Page 1) and the treatment of those wounded in the war.  (...)  [129 words]   [$7]
CARTHAGE PALACE, TUNIS
M’Barek, Marzouki’s Internet envoy
   Elected an overseas member of Tunisia’s parliament as representative of the “Americas” constituency, 31-year-old Mabrouka M’Barek, who stood under the colors of CPR (Congres pour la Republique) would like to be president Moncef Marzouki’s “ambassador” to Internet giants.  (...)  [146 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
 Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Regularly taking "refuge" in his beautiful home in Marrakech since the outset of his legal woes in the  (...)  [119 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA
 Mustapha Ben Jaafar
While president Moncef Marzouki seems happy withy the “new diplomacy”of Hamadi Jebali’s government that’s  (...)  [84 words]   [$2,1]
EUROPEAN UNION/MOROCCO
 Stefan Fule
In travelling to Morocco last week, the European commissioner for enlargement and EU neighbourhood policy,  (...)  [138 words]   [$2,1]


Tunis/Davos
Rached Ghannouchi, head of Tunisia’s moderate Islamic movement Ennahda but who occupies no official function, will speak before no less than three panels at the Davos Forum between Jan.  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]
Washington/Tripoli
John Christopher Stevens is Washington’s new ambassador to Libya. It was he who established the first contacts with the insurgency at the start of the anti-Gaddafi insurrection, a contact that enabled Washington to keep tabs on different stages in the regime’s fall.  (...)  [72 words]   [$2,1]
Rome/Tripoli
Maurizio Massari, Italy's new special envoy to countries in the Mediterranean area and those swept up in the Arab Spring, will assist Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi in preparing for a 5+5 meeting in Naples on Feb.  (...)  [69 words]   [$2,1]


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