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	Maghreb Confidential /Latest Issue

N°886 - Paris, 02/07/2009

NORTH AFRICA

Editor in Chief

Who's Who in Med Project at Elysee

A new diplomatic push for the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM in its French initials) is being planned following a freeze on the project that lasted several months. A conference of senior officials from the 43 member nations of UPM will be staged in Brussels on July 7 as a prelude to a ministerial encounter. (...) [566 words] [$8.2]

MOROCCO

New Plan Afoot for Fisheries

Intent on revamping the fisheries sector, agriculture minister Aziz Akhannouch is due to unveil his program in coming weeks. (...)

IFC Still at Belghazi’s Side

Three years after granting a first loan, the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, will provide fresh backing for the Fondation pour le Developpement (...) [170 words] [$4.7]

Youssef Ajana - The boss of Imprimerie Ideale, Youssef Ajana, was decorated (...) [50 words] [$1.5]

Job Recruitment at Low Tide This Year

With an entry ticket costing 400 dinars, this year’s International Recruitment Fair held at the Grand Mercure hotel in Algiers on June 26-28 drew a smaller crowd than in 2008. (...) [165 words] [$4.7]

Concord Guards Top French Firms

The private security business is flourishing in Algeria. France’s Concord Risks has just set up a local affiliate to see to the security of some of France’s biggest companies. (...) [160 words] [$4.7]

Nissan South Africa is to supply over 600 "Hardbody" pick-up trucks per month to Algeria, between J (...) [32 words] [$1.5]

Anesrif (Agence Nationale d’Etudes et de Suivi de la Realisation des Investissements Ferrovaires), (...) [56 words] [$1.5]

Amar Hamoudi - The boss of the Algerian food and drinks company Bimo (which (...) [75 words] [$1.5]

Abdelwahid Bouabdallah - The chief executive of Air Algerie is about to win authorization (...) [44 words] [$1.5]

Gaudin, architect-in-chief in Tunis

Speaking at an investment forum in Carthage on June 24, the senator and mayor of Marseilles, Jean-Claude Gaudin, made a detour to City Hall in Tunis the following day. (...) [161 words] [$4.7]

Brochot SA , a haberdasher’s manufacturer (buttons and belts for clothing) has set up an affiliate i (...) [30 words] [$1.5]

TMG Staffing (the Morley Group), an American recruiting and human resources management firm, is to (...) [41 words] [$1.5]

SITEP (Societe italo-tunisienne d’Exploitation Petroliere), a joint venture between the Tunisian go (...) [62 words] [$1.5]

Groupe Sarost , a holding company of Tunisian businessman Mohamed Toumi, has just opened a property (...) [51 words] [$1.5]

Bassem Loukil - The president of the Loukil group, which owns the Mazda concession (...) [67 words] [$1.5]

Ali Slama - Tunisian businessman Ali Slama, boss of the Slama Group and (...) [67 words] [$1.5]

U.S. Invades Private Security Market

After pulling out of Baghdad, American and British private security firms are rubbing their hands at the prospect of big business in Libya. (...) [234 words] [$4.7]

LAICO (Libyan African Investment Co), the Africa-oriented investment fund of Libya, is to build two (...) [60 words] [$1.5]

LAFICO (Libyan Foreign Investment Co) has acquired Portman House, a building housing stores and off (...) [30 words] [$1.5]

Massimo Ponzellini - The chairman of Italy's Impregilo group, Massimo Ponzellini, (...) [62 words] [$1.5]

OFFICE OF THE USTR, WASHINGTON

Algiers on Intellectual Property List

In its recent annual report on the protection of American intellectual property (2009 Special 301), the Office of the U. (...) [152 words] [$4.7]

COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRY, TUNIS

Flurry of Media Appointments

Sweeping changes in Tunisia’s pro-government “news” organizations are taking place in the run-up to presidential and legislative elections in November. (...) [200 words] [$4.7]

KADHAFI FOUNDATION, TRIPOLI

Saif’s Friends Join his Foundation

Originally a non-governmental organization (NGO) with humanitarian aims (negotiation for the release of hostages at Jolo, etc), the Kadhafi International Foundation for Charity is continuing to transform itself into a political association. (...) [128 words] [$4.7]

ALGERIA
Roger Said
Lawyer Roger Said will head the first organization representing the Jewish religion in Algeria. (...) [85 words] [$1.5]

RUSSIA
Nikolai Patrushev
The secretary of Russia's National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, was in Tripoli on June 23 to (...) [91 words] [$1.5]

UNITED STATES
Farah Pandith
On June 24, Hilary Clinton named Farah Pandith as special representative to Muslim communities at the (...) [66 words] [$1.5]

MOROCCO
Mustapha Sahel
On post since early this year, Morocco's "new" ambassador to Paris, Mustapha Sahel, has still not received (...) [76 words] [$1.5]

MOROCCO
Lalla Salma
Princess Lalla Salma, wife of king Mohamed VI, undertook a diplomatic mission of her own to Tunis last (...) [44 words] [$1.5]

Umberto Bonito , director of the Italian trade commission in Libyan and Francesco Paolo Trupiano, Rome’s ambassador to Tripoli, are among Italians expected to attend a trade fair organized by the Italo Libyan Friendship Association in the Libyan capital between Aug. (...) [73 words] [$1.5]

Algiers/Marseilles

Sophie Scharbook , daughter of a French citizen who has been held by her Algerian grandmother in Oran since 2005, arrived in Marseilles on July 1st. (...) [76 words] [$1.5]

Washington/Algiers

Elias Zerhouni , director of the U.S. National Health Institute between 2002 and 2008, will chair the new Algerian friendship association in the United States, the Algerian-American Foundation for Culture, Education, Science and Technology. (...) [71 words] [$1.5]

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