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11/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°917

BUSINESS CIRCLES

Bouod Extends Business Network

A Marseilles-based businessman who was born in Agadir, El Hassan Bouod is doing the rounds in France to promote the brand new Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Marocaine en France (CCIMF). (...) [208 words] [4€]

11/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°917

COMPANIES

BMCE

BMCE (Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur) forms part of a banking syndicate financing the 2009-2010 campaign of Societe Burkinabe des Fibres Textiles (Sofitex). (...) [104 words] [1.3€]

04/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916

POWER BROKERS

The Paris Forum of “Friends of Morocco”

Moroccan circles in Paris are limbering up for their first networking event of the year, the Forum de Paris Euro Mediterranee. that is to be staged in the premises of the Paris Stock Exchange on April 9-10. Devoted to promoting tighter ties with the United States, Europe and the Mediterranean nations, a rapprochement spurred by Barack Obama’s new diplomatic initiatives, the event is being organized by Albert Mallet (see opposite). (...) [559 words] [7€]

04/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916

BUSINESS CIRCLES

Solar Energy: Scramble for Ouarzazate

The race is on to build the big, 500 MW solar power station at Ourzazate. No less than nine companies are in the running for a contract to design the facility that will be the blue ribbon project of Morocco’s Solar Plan (MC 909). (...) [222 words] [4€]

04/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916

POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

Mohammed Khabbachi

The former director of Maghreb Arabe Presse (the government news agency) has resurfaced after a period of disgrace. (...) [83 words] [1.3€]

04/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916

POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

Mohamed Saleh Tamek

In a flurry of appointments at Morocco’s interior ministry on March 1st, the highly strategic post of secretary-general went to a native of Western Sahara, Mohamed Saleh Tamek. (...) [81 words] [1.3€]

04/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916

COMPANIES

MoneyGram

MoneyGram, an American money transfer specialist, has just acquired Blue Dolphin Financial Services. (...) [89 words] [1.3€]

04/03/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°916

BUSINESS CIRCLES

Attali in New Drive for Micro Finance

Micro finance appears to be marking time in Morocco but could well receive a much-needed push from the mobile telephone. (...) [217 words] [FREE]

25/02/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°915

POWER BROKERS

Chabat Bucks the Tide over Wine?

Hamid Chabat is risking a lot by proposing to ban the sale of alcohol in Fez. By floating the idea, the turbulent mayor of Fez , the holiest city in Morocco, could only irritate the authorities and specially the wali of Fez-Boulemane, Mohamed Rherrabi. (...) [194 words] [4€]

25/02/2010

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°915

BUSINESS CIRCLES

Moroccan Initiation for US Officers?

Will Marrakech turn out to be a compulsory stopover for the American military before it moves on to Iraq? Newly-minted US Army officers are to spend a good six months in Morocco, between March 15 and Sept. (...) [155 words] [4€]

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