Maghreb Confidential

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL Sample from Past issue

TRENDS

ALGERIA

Algeria: The Unstoppable Rise of "Mr. Khalifa"

His arrival in the "political" galaxy of Algeria’s business universe was spectacular, and Rafik Abdelmoumene Khalifa hasn’t stopped climbing ever since. (...).

POLITICS AND FINANCES BUSINESS

ALGERIA

COCA COLA, PFIZER AND BP... AT ALGERIA’S STAND IN PHILADELPHIA

A lot of corporate chiefs are turning out for the "Doing Business in Algeria" workshop at the U. (...).

ALGERIA

UBIFRANCE TURNS SPOTLIGHT ON ALGERIA

The French firm UBIFRANCE, formerly CFME ACTIM, is organizing more seminars on Algeria than on any other nation in Africa in 2002 and they will cover the following fields: (...).

MOROCCO

DALLAH EL BARAKA AT PALACE FOR TOURISM - AND OIL - TALKS

Officially Mohammed VI received sheikh Salah Abdellah Kamel, boss of the Dallah El Baraka group, in Agadir on Oct. (...).

MOROCCO

MOROCCO’S FRIEND IN HOUSE OF LORDS

During a conference organized by the Anglo-Moroccan Friendship Society in London last week on "Hassan II and the Green March," Lord Chalfont, chairman of the defense committee in the House of Lords, heaped praise on the late monarch, declaring that "the Green March put a peaceful end to nearly 100 years of foreign occupation. (...).

LIBYA

SECRET AMERICAN-LIBYAN TALKS

Public enemy No. 1 in the U.S., Osama Bin Laden is a godsend to col. (...).

TUNISIA

A CHARFI-EL TAIEF TICKET AGAINST BEN ALI?

Reported in Le Monde, Kamel el Taief’s break with the regime of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali is primarily a political coup that bears watching closely. (...).

MOROCCO

WINTERSHALL

WINTERSHALL, LAFB, ABDC, LAFICO, NOC and GEC will all take part in the first investment summit on energy and natural resources being staged by the Community of Sahel-Saharan States on Nov. (...). [Total : 34 words].

ALGERIA

FLEISCHMANN CONSULT

FLEISCHMANN CONSULT, an Austrian consultancy, put in the lowest bid of 35 million DR ($476,000) to study building a tramway in Algiers. (...).

ALGERIA

SIEMENS

SIEMENS has signed a $75 million contract with Orascom Telecom Algeria, the affiliate of Egypt’s Orascom that won the Algerian GSM license in July, to install part of the mobile network. (...).

ALGERIA

CNPA

CNPA, the Algerian employers’ federation, will hold its annual meeting at the end of December. (...).

FRANCE/ALGERIA

AIR LIB

AIR LIB - formerly AOM/Air Liberte—will shortly get a green light to open a line between Paris and Algiers following approval from the Conseil Superieur de l’Aviation Marchande (CSAM), according to the carrier’s chairman, Jean-Charles Corbet. (...).

ALGERIA

CINAF

CINAF, the international business center in Oran, was due to organize a seminar on Oct. (...).

LIBYA

ALCATEL

ALCATEL and GROUPE SOUFFLET signed contracts with Libya that respectively cover installation of a mobile telephone network and the export of flour, French overseas development minister Charles Josselin announced on Oct. (...).

WHO'S WHO

FRANCE/WESTERN SAHARA

MOHAMMED HABIB ALLAH

The Polisario Front for the liberation of Western Sahara has named Mohammed Habib Allah as its new permanent envoy to Paris in succession to Saadafa Bahia, who will move to Ethiopia’s as the Front’s representative there. (...).

MOROCCO

ABDELAZIZ MEZIANE BELFKIH

To get the ball rolling on the prickly question of educational reforms, king Mohammed VI has named his adviser Abdelaziz Meziane Belfkih as head of the Mohammed VI Foundation set up in July to promote education. (...).

TUNISIA

RAFAA DEKHIL

As part of a shakeup of ailing Tunisair, the company’s chairman, Abdelmalek Laariff, a close associate of the president’s chief-of-staff, Mohamed Jegham, has been replaced by Rafaa Dekhil. (...).