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	Maghreb Confidential /Latest Issue

N°858

Paris, 04/12/2008

Country Channels

Gaelle Arenson

TUNISIA

Editor in Chief

Hedi Djilani Plays Hardball

Hedi Djilani, president of the employers’ organisation UTICA, was in fighting form at a colloquium on extending the EU-Tunisia free trade zone on December 1 in Tunis. (...) [283 words] [$4,7]

RISKS

Student Clashes in Casablanca: Security Forces Intervene

Students from the southern provinces were arrested and accused of having planned to cause trouble and of being "manipulated from outside".

algiers

Paris Seeks to Soothe Bouteflika

According to our information, France has invited president Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a state visit to Paris in February or June next year. (...) [138 words] [$1,5]

Algiers Still Buying Russian

A new order for Russian armaments after the gaffe when defective MiGs were delivered? (...) [101 words] [$1,5]

Chinese Grow Truck Business

Several Algerian companies are starting to assemble Chinese utility vehicles. (...) [123 words] [$1,5]

rabat

Air Force Goes for Latest Raytheon System

The Forces Aériennes Royales (FAR – Royal Air Force) is to equip their “new” American F16s with the very latest electronic counter-measure systems made by Raytheon. (...) [101 words] [$1,5]

Western Sahara Seen from Morocco

The Centre d’Etudes Internationales (CEI) published its sixth special report on the “Moroccan Sahara” in October, which focused on the Conseil Royal Consultatif des Affaires Sahariennes (CORCAS). (...) [72 words] [$1,5]

tunis

Gulf Bankers Go Shopping

Tunis Bank International (TIB, offshore), part of the Bahrein-based United Gulf Bank, has just been bought by Burgan Bank of Kuwait. (...) [51 words] [$1,5]

Tunisia, Training Hub for Airbus

The Aviation Training Center of Tunisia will receive a second Thales FFS A320 flight simulator as well as a Formation System Trainer which will allow it to abide by the Airbus APT2 programme. (...) [104 words] [$1,5]

Italian Firms in Helicopter Assembly

The Italian maker of passenger aircraft Avionav is to launch a subsidiary specialising in assembling helicopters for civil use at Tinja, in the region of Bizerte in north-east Tunisia. (...) [55 words] [$1,5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	TUNISIA
	HSBC
	HSBC has just been picked as advisor by Bina Holding, the joint venture belonging to Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of the Tunisian president Ben Ali, and Lazhar STA, for a cement works project. (...) [32 words] [FREE]


	LIBYA
	Air Liquide
	Air Liquide is expanding its presence in North Africa. The French medical and industrial gases group, already present in Tunisia and Algeria, is preparing to set up shop in Libya. (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	One Tech
	One Tech, the Tunisian cable company belonging to Moncef Sellami, has bought into the capital of the French company SLFG, which makes parts for the aeronautical, aerospace and automobile industries. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Arcofina
	Arcofina, a company owned by the Algerian businessman Abdelouahab Rahim, is to issue an 8. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	BW Group
	BW Group, one of the world’s biggest maritime transport groups, has just set up a subsidiary in Tunisia. (...) [18 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Heinené Entreprises Générales
	Heinené Entreprises Générales (HEG, Lebanon) has invested EUR 120 million in building a residence at Chéraga, west of Algiers. (...) [20 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Nokia
	Nokia has been chosen by the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer de Tunisie to modernise and secure its rail communication system. (...) [21 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	IGE+XAO
	IGE+XAO, a French publisher of computer assisted design software for electrical installations, has just moved into Tunisia. (...) [17 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Benetton
	Benetton is pursuing an investment programme begun in 2004 for 25% of its production, or 24 million garments in 2010, to ultimately be produced in the country. (...) [28 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Magasin Général
	Magasin Général (Tunisia), co-owned by Tahar Bayahi, is planning to team up with a foreign group to create his own hypermarket to compete with Géant, part of the Mabrouk group, and Carrefour, part of the Chaïbi group. (...) [37 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	UNITED STATES/LIBYA
	Gene A. Cretz
	The nomination of Gene A. Cretz as the new U. (...) [89 words] [$1,5]


	FRANCE/TUNISIA
	Jean-Loup Kuhn-Delforge
	According to our information, the deputy secretary general to the minister for foreign affairs is seen as a likely successor to Serge Degallaix, the French ambassador to Tunis, in function since September 2005. (...) [69 words] [$1,5]


	ALGERIA
	Larbi Belkheir
	The ex chief advisor to president Bouteflika, Larbi Belkheir is still at the Aïn Naadja hospital in Algiers, where he is being kept under close surveillance. (...) [70 words] [$1,5]


	TUNISIA/UNITED STATES
	Carl Kress
	Carl B. Kress and Sarah E. Shapiro, respectively director for North Africa and the Middle East and the executive in charge of Tunisia for the American Trade Development Agency, have just visited Tunisia for discussions with officials at the ministry for economic development and international cooperation. (...) [68 words] [$1,5]


	TUNISIA
	Marc Ponchet
	This official at the Agence France Nucléaire International has been hurried to Tunis to present expertise in building civilian nuclear power stations. (...) [51 words] [$1,5]