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North Africa

France, Middle East
Two Franco-Arab Chambers of Commerce?

Competition could prove fierce this autumn between associations representing French-Arab business interests in Paris.

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Algeria
AIR ASSAULT AGAINST FUNDAMENTALIST GUERILLAS.

Maghreb Confidential understands that the Algerian air force conducted large scale operations against fundamentalist forces in Tiaret and Bouira provinces [...]

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Algeria
SIEMENS THWARTED ?IN HIGHEST CIRCLES??

Efforts by the German electronic group Siemens to land a $40 million telephone equipment contract have been blocked. The finance [...]

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Algeria
WHO REALLY CALLS THE SHOTS IN ALGIERS?

The Indigo Publications group, which puts out Maghreb Confidential, has just issued its first biographical guide-book to Algeria in its [...]

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Morocco
DRISS BASRI MAKING A COMEBACK?

Former interior minister Driss Basri, a native of Settat, is expected to stand in forthcoming legislative elections and if he [...]

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Morocco
MAURITANIA'S "AON" CAUSES A FISHERIES FLAP.

Morocco's decision to award the Mauritanian group AON (after the initials of its owner, Abdellali Ould Noueygued) a dozen fishing [...]

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Libya | NULL
FRANCO-BRITISH RIVALRY.

Just as Paris finds itself uncertain again over how to deal with col. Muammar Kadhafi, London is busy negotiating bilaterally [...]

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Libya | NULL
ITALIANS ON THE BUSINESS BALL.

Nicknamed ?Libya's Zidane,? Saadi Kadhafi, son of the Libyan leader who persuaded LAFICO to buy a stake in Italy's Juventis [...]

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Tunisia | NULL
CONCERN OVER FRENCH POSITION.

The Carthage Palace is always a little nervous when France changes its ambassadors to Tunisia. The new envoy, Yves Aubin [...]

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Tunisia | NULL
WHO WILL TAKE OVER THE BANQUE DU SUD?

Now that he has been named deputy governor of the Banque Central de Tunisie (BCT), Laroussi Bayoudh will no longer [...]

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Tunisia
BECHTEL USA

BECHTEL USA is to install a $70 million compression unit [...]

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Algeria
RAZEL

RAZEL, the French affiliate of Bilfinger Berger, has won the [...]

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Tunisia
TUI

TUI, the German holiday group that operates in Tunisia, sent [...]

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Jordan, Libya
AUSTRALIA WHEAT BOARD

AUSTRALIA WHEAT BOARD is to deliver 50,000 tons of wheat [...]

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Algeria
KAHLIFA CONSTRUCTION

KAHLIFA CONSTRUCTION has won a major contract to restore and [...]

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Libya
ONGC Videsh Makes its Debut

Efforts by the Indian firm ONGC Videsh to gain a foothold in North Africa have started to pay off. The group is to explore in the Sirte basin.