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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 697 - 06/02/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Attijariwafa/GBM Raid on Belgolaise ?

Maghreb Confidential understands that Mohamed Bouamatou, boss of Generale de Banque de Mauritanie (GBM) and president of his country's employers federation, is in talks on forming a partnership with Morocco's Attijariwafa Bank whose leading stakeholder is the Moroccan royal family. (...) [301 words] [$4.7]

LIBYA

Who's in Charge of Libyan Intelligence ?

Abdallah Senoussi, brother in law of Libya's leader, ordered a search of the offices of his rival Mussa Kossa, head of Libya's secret service. (...)

algiers

Italians Out In Force At Fair

A wide range of Italian firms turned out for the Algiers International Fair being held between June 1-9, among them: (...) [102 words] [$1.5]

Sonatrach Invests In Training

Energy minister Chakib Khelil has long voiced the need to bring executives of the state-controlled oil company Sonatrach up to international standards, and the drive has now begun. (...) [108 words] [$1.5]

Accenture France To Revamp Naftal

The state-owned oil products distribution firm NAFTAL contracted the consultancy Accenture France on May 28 to look at its management methods and create and install a new system. (...) [57 words] [$1.5]

rabat

Will Joint Franco-Moroccan Meeting be Postponed?

Scheduled to be held in Rabat on June 26-27, a meeting of the joint Franco-Moroccan committee attended by the prime ministers of the two countries could be put back because of the appointment of a new government in France. (...) [72 words] [$1.5]

Partial Sell-Off For Sugar Mills

Nine years after the government announced in 1996 it wanted to privatise Morocco's sugar companies, the mills are finally going to sell off stakes in their businesses. (...) [81 words] [$1.5]

Securing On-Line Bank Data

With Morocco dreaming increasingly of setting itself up as an offshore financial center, Bank Al Maghrib organized a conference in Rabat in late May on putting financial data on-line. (...) [86 words] [$1.5]

tunis

Free Trade Talks With U.S

The American ambassador to Tunisia, William Hudson, met with development and international cooperation minister Nouri Jouini on May 26 to prepare for the inauguration of negotiations on a free trade agreement between Tunisia and the U. (...) [60 words] [$1.5]

Libyan Financial Aid-17 Years Later

The Tunisian parliament examined a draft bill on May 26 that concerned $250 million in assistance, including a $150 million loan, from Libya that was initially offered in 1988. (...) [91 words] [$1.5]

Infighting Continues at BIAT

Mohamed Driss, who holds an 8% stake in BIAT (Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie), has lost a battle against the bank's chairman, Chakib Nouira, but doesn't seem inclined to walk away from the war. (...) [136 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	ALGERIA/SERBIA
	Energoprojekt Hidroinzenjering
	Energoprojekt Hidroinzenjering (Serbia) has been contracted by the Agence Nationale Algerienne des Barrages, the dam authority, to draft an emergency alert system for eastern Algeria. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Sarl Impomed Algier
	Sarl Impomed Algier and the firms MM Alger, Total Air Medical, TSM Tizi Ouzou, AD Medica Groupe and UBM Alger won a series of contracts to deliver medical equipment to the health department in the Biskra region in Algiers. (...) [42 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/SWITZERLAND
	Furrer And Frey
	Furrer And Frey (Switzerland) was chosen by the Algerian SNTF railway company to monitor work on renovating the electrified part of the Bouchegouf-Souk Ahras line. (...) [28 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	Societe des Eaux de Marseilles
	Societe des Eaux de Marseilles has just won the management contract for water supply to Constantine in Algeria. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	SOMOCER
	SOMOCER, a ceramics firm owned by Lofti Abdennadher and listed in Tunis, is thinking of seeking a listing in Dubai to raise money to pay off its debts in Tunisia. (...) [33 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/CANADA
	Weatherford Ltd
	Weatherford Ltd of Canada and Algeria's Enafor are forming a new joint company, Oil Field Machinery Shop and Inspection Services, that will be 51% owned by the Canadians. (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA/SWITZERLAND
	Buhler SA
	Buhler SA (Switzerland) is organizing a seminar on the sidelines of the Algiers International Fair on June 5 on milling/ semolina. (...) [24 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	FFC
	FFC, the French footwear federation, is organizing a seminar in Casablanca on June 22-23 on the proper approach to the French market. (...) [38 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/TUNISIA
	Ubifrance
	Ubifrance is staging a Franco-Tunisian seminar in Tunis on June 9-10 on technologies for treating water. (...) [20 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	MOROCCO
	Mohamed Abdeljalil
	The managing director of Morocco's port authority ODEP, Mustapha Barroug, was unceremoniously fired in the midst of a shakeup of Morocco's ports. (...) [58 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	Said Ben Mustapha
	Ex-foreign minister Said Ben Mustapha has been named chairman of the board at Meditrac, an agricultural equipment and public works firm set up in February by the powerful Ben Yedder group (Amen Bank). (...) [36 words] [FREE]


	LIBYA/SWITZERLAND
	Urs Tinner
	Swiss engineer Urs Tinner who has been accused of helping Tripoli to design centrifuges for the enrichment of uranium was extradited from Germany to Switzerland and jailed this week. (...) [53 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	Abdellah Belhadj
	The purge of the ?Lamari generation,? named after the former chief of staff who was put out to grass last summer is continuing in the Algerian armed forces. (...) [76 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA/FRANCE
	Mohamed Ghoualmi
	The Algerian ambassador to France, Mohamed Ghoualmi, is organizing a conference in Algeria on June 14 in association with alumni of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). (...) [44 words] [FREE]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	Thierry de Montbrial
	The director of the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales, Thierry de Montbrial, was due to moderate a conference on the ? (...) [42 words] [FREE]

Archive n° 697 - 06/02/2005