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TUNISIA Business Power 01/10/2020

Salwa Sghaier's solar projects get off to bad start

Tunisia's new energy minister Salwa Sghaier has rather unwittingly launched a new tender for the construction of solar energy plants to provide a total output of 70MW. To revive investors' interest, she may align the approval process with that of concessions. [...]

MOROCCO Politics 01/10/2020

Mohammed VI treats himself to Al-Saud's palatial estate a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower

The new house of king Mohammed VI in Paris. ©Lazare Beullac/Africa Intelligence

ALGERIA Diplomacy Defence 30/09/2020

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on anti-Russian trip to Algiers this week

TUNISIA Business Oil & gas 29/09/2020

Bouchamaoui Industries takes lion's share of gas project in northwest

The group headed by Raouf and Maher Bouchamaoui will be connecting most of the north western communities on behalf on STEG under a contract financed by the African Development Bank. [...]

LIBYA Diplomacy 29/09/2020

Abu Dhabi bankrolls pro-Haftar lobbying in Paris

The UAE paid for and Mezri Haddad helped organise a dinner-debate held by a prominent foreign policy magazine that featured French former junior trade minister Pierre Lellouche as guest of honour. [...]

MOROCCO AFRICA Business 28/09/2020

André Baya takes charge of Mohammed VI's international mining business

André Baya va prendre la direction des opérations en Afrique de Managem, la branche minière de la holding royale marocaine Al Mada. Elle est active notamment au Soudan, en Guinée et en RDC. [...]

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LIBYA Business 28/09/2020

Arbitration: $1bn Al Kharafi-LIA dispute to play out in France's highest court

The Kuwaiti company is fighting to the bitter end to keep hold of the Libyan sovereign fund's French assets it seized seven years ago, but the arbitration ruling behind the confiscation has been reversed in Egypt. [...]

ALGERIA Business 25/09/2020

French-owned Caterpillar distributor Bergerat Monnoyeur fearful for its future

The last operator to be wholly foreign-owned, Bergerat Monnoyeur Algérie could be forced to cease operations by new legislation covering car dealerships. [...]

MOROCCO Diplomacy 24/09/2020

SouthBridge A&I takes on lobbying role to bring AU's Centre for Disease Control to Morocco

Hassan Beklhayat's strategic consulting firm has no lobbying experience but has been hired to help Rabat convince Africa CDC to move its headquarters to Morocco. The firm may receive a hand from its partner, Lionel Zinzou and Donald Kaberuka's Southbridge Group. [...]

ALGERIA EGYPT Diplomacy 24/09/2020

Presidential spokesman Belaid Mohand-Oussaid tipped as Cairo ambassador Free

If he inherits the Cairo ambassador post, the ex-diplomat and current spokesman for President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will have to tread a fine line, with Egypt and Algeria at loggerheads over the situation in Libya. [...]

LIBYA Politics 23/09/2020

Nawasi militia leader Mustafa Gadur moves back to centre stage in Tripoli

The decline in the influence of interior minister Fathi Bachagha is good news for Mustafa Gadur, the leader of Tripoli's most powerful militia who has been calling for months for Bachagha to be dismissed. [...]

Colonel Stéphane Richou in 2018, when he was appointed to the rank of officer of the National Order of Merit.

ALGERIA Diplomacy Defence 23/09/2020

Stéphane Richou, a new military attaché to mend fences with generals

Just two years after his appointment, French defence attaché Renaud Devouge has been replaced by Colonel Stéphane Richou, who will have to improve relations with the military. [...]

Georges Uriot is the new director for Africa of Amarante International.

AFRICA ALGERIA Business 22/09/2020

Amarante reorganises African subsidiaries and bids for growth in airport security

Amarante International's new Africa director, Georges Uriot, is to temporarily take charge of the group's key Algerian subsidiary, while at the same time leading the group's drive to expand in African airport security. [...]

TUNISIA Business Defence 22/09/2020

Armed Anka-S drone order cancelled due to lack of funds, despite Turkish backing

The Tunisian army is unable to foot its share of the $240m bill, despite Turk Eximbank pitching in 85% of the total order. [...]

The former secretary of state in charge of foreign trade and former French deputy Pierre Lellouche.

FRANCE LIBYA Business 21/09/2020

MP-turned-consultant Pierre Lellouche returns to the Libya debate

L'ancien secrétaire d'Etat chargé du commerce extérieur et ex-député français Pierre Lellouche se replonge dans les affaires libyennes. [...]

French president Emmanuel Macron tried to organise a mini-summit on the Libyan crisis on 17 September in Paris.

LIBYA Diplomacy 18/09/2020

How Macron derailed UNSMIL head Stephanie Williams' peace plan

France's attempt to organise a meeting meeting between Fayez Sarraj, Khalifa Haftar and Aguila Salah Issa provoked a wave of protests in Tripoli. Its intervention has disrupted the crisis exit negotiations led by the United States and the United Nations. [...]

French ambassador in Algeria François Gouyette.

ALGERIA Diplomacy 17/09/2020

French Embassy stays in diplomatic quarantine as François Gouyette takes charge

France's new ambassador in Algeria will have the difficult job of reviving bilateral relations, which are currently at a particularly low ebb. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune believes that France backed the "hirak" protest movement and his presidential rival Azzedine Mihoubi. [...]

Aguila Salah Issa, speaker of the eastern-based parliament.

LIBYA Diplomacy 16/09/2020

Why the EU wants to remove Aguila Salah Issa from sanctions list

In its efforts to influence negotiations to end the crisis in Libya, the European Union is hoping for support from the speaker of the eastern-based parliament, despite having slapped sanctions on him in 2016. [...]

ALGERIA Business 15/09/2020

Abdelkader Taïeb Ezzraïmi's heirs share control of SIM agri-food empire

Hassen Taïeb Ezzraïmi has taken over the reins of the holding company founded by his father, the industrialist and MP Abdelkader Taïeb Ezzraïmi, who died in April. His brothers have kept control of parts of the group. [...]

The private secretary of King Mohammed VI, Mounir el-Majidi.

MOROCCO Business 14/09/2020

El Majidi Inc. or how the king's private secretary and his clan are prospering on the coat-tails of royal group Al Mada

Mounir El Majidi, the king's private secretary and business manager, is building a business empire of his own through contracts with royal holding company Al Mada. His brother Mahdi El Majidi and his former aide Zouhair Fassi-Fehri are following his example. [...]

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