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Gaelle Arenson
MOROCCO Editor in Chief
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]  [$9.5]
MOROCCO
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. (...)

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  (...)  [222 words]  [$5.4]
MoneyGram, an American money transfer specialist, has just acquired Blue Dolphin Financial Services  (...)  [89 words]  [$1.8]

A Prescription from Doctor IMF
   Issued on March 2, the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on Algeria presents a mixed picture of the country’s economy.  (...)  [216 words]  [$5.4]
SNVI (Societe Nationale des Vehicules Industriels) could forge partnerships with Czech bus manufact  (...)  [46 words]  [$1.8]

New Tech Push by Ribes & Baccar
   The government has enrolled international consultants in what president Zine El Abedine Ben Ali views as a national priority:  (...)  [208 words]  [$5.4]
Celamin Probes Phosphate Market
   Will foreign operators be allowed to break the near-monopoly that state-owned Compagnie des Phosphates de Gafsa enjoys over the extraction of phosphate?  (...)  [185 words]  [$5.4]
Socal, a bankrupt Tunisian food canning company which was put up for sale by liquidators, has been  (...)  [104 words]  [$1.8]
Continental Automotive is preparing itself for an economic bounce-back by investing in Tunisia.  (...)  [147 words]  [$1.8]
Skander Boukhari -  Tunisia’s private health sector (MC 908) is continuing to develop  (...)  [63 words]  [$1.8]
Nazeh Ben Ammar -  The president of the Tunisian American Chamber of Commerce (TACC)  (...)  [132 words]  [$1.8]

Visa Ban Hits at Nuclear Program
   The job of Libya’s top nuclear energy official, Ali Mohamed Gashut, is no picnic at the moment. Tasked with overseeing the construction of Libya’s first nuclear power station (MC 913),  (...)  [229 words]  [$5.4]
Hamed Al Houderi -  The boss of Libya's Economic and Social Development Fund (ESDF),  (...)  [104 words]  [$1.8]
Nicole Lamb-Hale -  The new deputy under-secretary at the U.S. Commerce Department,  (...)  [91 words]  [$1.8]

SECURITY HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS
Tounsi's Fatal Encounter at Hydra
   Algiers is rife with rumours following the murder of the boss of Algeria’s Surete Nationale agency, Ali Tounsi, on Feb.  (...)  [222 words]  [$5.4]
EUROPEAN COMMISSION, BRUSSELS
EU Backs Italy-Libya Partnership
   Italian interior minister Roberto Maroni, who is handling the brief concerning illegal immigrants arriving from Libya, has won a EUR 10 million grant from the European Commission.  (...)  [145 words]  [$5.4]
EGLANTINE PRESS HEADQUARTERS, TUNIS
Nesrine And Her Friends
   Nesrine Materi, a daughter of president Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, seems to have pulled off the delicate task of launching a career in the “family” press while continuing to curry favour with her contacts.  (...)  [156 words]  [$5.4]
FRANCE
 Eric Woerth
Eric Woerth (France) The French budget ministry won’t revise the fiscal agreement that France reached  (...)  [103 words]  [$1.8]
MOROCCO
 Mohamed Saleh Tamek
In a flurry of appointments at Morocco’s interior ministry on March 1st, the highly strategic post of  (...)  [81 words]  [$1.8]
MOROCCO
 Mohammed Khabbachi
The former director of Maghreb Arabe Presse (the government news agency) has resurfaced after a period  (...)  [83 words]  [$1.8]
ALGERIA
 Salah Eddine Belabes
The new editor in chief of the daily El Watan is Salah Eddine Belabes.  (...)  [77 words]  [$1.8]


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