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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 594 - 03/13/2003

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Invest in Morocco, yeah, but in Infrastructure

Over 300 corporate and institutional bosses flocked to a conference organized by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris (...) [302 words] [$4.7]

algiers

BENHACHENHOU INVESTIGATES KHALIFA BANK

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's technmical adviser, Abdellatif Benachenhou, is doing the rounds of public establishments to see who had ? (...) [138 words] [$1.5]

JOINT VENTURE FOR ALGERIA-NIGERIA GAS PIPELINE

A huge project to build a gas pipeline stretching thousands of kilometers between Algeria and Nigeria that first surfaced in 2002 appears to be taking form. (...) [62 words] [$1.5]

CFAO BUYS DAEWOO CAR UNIT

The South Korean group Daewoo which had high hopes in 1997 of becoming the leading foreign investor in Algeria has sold its local automobile group, Daewoo-Automobiles Algeria, to Diamal from Francois Pinault's CFAO company for around $15 million. (...) [42 words] [FREE]

rabat

OIL GET-TOGETHER IN MARRAKECH

All the big names in the oil industry are expected to turn up in Marrakech between May 26-28 to attend a ? (...) [102 words] [$1.5]

BERLIN TARGETED BY MOROCCAN HOLIDAY FIRMS

Moroccan tour operators were thick on the ground at the Berlin international travel show to meet with German holiday companies who send vacationers to the country; the number of German holiday-makers fell by 12% in 2002. (...) [220 words] [$1.5]

tunis

SPECULATORS WELCOME FOR ISLANDS

Foreign investors are being approached to take concessions on islands in Tunisia's territorial waters because the Tunisian government doesn't have the money to build power, water supply and other facilities on them. (...) [79 words] [$1.5]

PLAN GATHERING DUST

Adopted by the government in 1998, a regional development plan for the coming 20 years in Tunisia still hasn't won endorsement from Parliament. (...) [69 words] [$1.5]

tripoli

COMPENSATION FOR LOCKERBIE VICTIMS?

The figure organizing contacts between the United States and Libya concerned the Lockerbie affair, prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington, helped give negotiations a major push in London on March 11, and an agreement on compensation amounting to $10 million per victim –270 died in the downing of the Pan Am airliner –seems in sight. (...) [118 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA
	ORRICK
	ORRICK, an international law firm, is stepping up operations in Algeria. (...) [54 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	SHERING PLOUGH
	SHERING PLOUGH, an American drugs firm that works with the Algerian pharmaceutical company Prodipharmal, is going to open a new production unit for anti-histamine and cortisone-based medicines in Rouiba in July. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	AIR FRANCE
	AIR FRANCE will inaugurate a fourth daily service on the highly profitable Casablanca-Paris route on March 30. (...) [41 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO/SENEGAL
	BMCE BANK
	BMCE BANK of Morocco is setting up shop in Senegal. (...) [48 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	CASTEL
	CASTEL is to shortly start distributing Lesieur table oil in Algeria. (...) [24 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	TECSULT
	TECSULT, a Canadian consultancy, has been contracted to conduct a study for the Agence Natrionale Algerienne des Barrages on building 21 river basins for dams. (...) [39 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	AZCO NOBEL MAROC
	AZCO NOBEL MAROC, the country's leading paints group, plans to close its Sadvel plant at Bouznika this year as part of a restructuring plan. (...) [52 words] [$1.5]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	HEDI SHALLUF
	A Libyan lawyer who holds French citizenship and is a member of the Paris bar, Hedi Shalluf, wants to organize a meeting in Paris on the human rights situation in his native country. (...) [79 words] [$1.5]


	LIBYA
	ABDELATI EL OBEIDI
	Libya's ambassador to Rome who was long considered for the post of envoy in Paris, Abdelati El Obeidi, could shortly be named to London in succession to Mohamed Zway. (...) [46 words] [$1.5]


	MOROCCO/EUROPEAN UNION
	LOYOLA DE PALACIO
	The European Union's energy and transportation commissioner, Loyola de Palacio, visited Morocco last week to resume talks on tying Morocco's air space into that of the EU. (...) [92 words] [$1.5]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	AHMED TOUFIQ
	Morocco's religious affairs minister, Ahmed Toufiq, met with representatives of the Moroccan community in France in the run-up to elections to the board of the future Conseil Francais du Culte Musulman on April 6 and 13. (...) [90 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	SAAD BOUDEMAGH
	Algerian businessman Saad Boudemagh, who owns the brewery that makes La Bavaroise beer, has reportedly signed an agreement to make the French beer Kronenbourg for the Algerian market starting from May. (...) [33 words] [FREE]