By turning the management of firms confiscated from the Ben Ali-Trabelsi clan following the January, 2011 revolution, over to Tunisia's Caisse des Depots et Consignations (CDC), prime minister Hamadi Jebali is taking the risk the issue will end up in [.
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Morocco’s farmers could soon find themselves depending on private groups to irrigate their land. Agriculture minister Aziz akhannouch (who also [...]
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French businessmen are waiting impatiently to see whether Algeria's new prime minister, Abdelmalek Sella, and Jean-Pierre Raffarin, will hit it [...]
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Maghreb Confidential set a cat among the pigeons by revealing the shortcomings of the authorities in handling an arbitration proceeding [...]
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Already hit by a decision in March, 2011 to freeze his bank accounts, the Sahel-origin businessman Lazhar Sta has just [...]
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The new Libyan government has at last won control of Libyan African Investment Portfolio (LAIP or LAP). The fund, which [...]
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Osama Siala, the 42-year-old "provisional" telecommunications minister (he hasn’t yet been confirmed in the post by the General National Council) [...]
Maghreb Confidential understands that the terms of reference for Morocco’s Conseil Superieur de Securite (CSS) will shortly be published in [...]
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Despite some headway in the matter of wounded war veterans who went abroad in their hundreds to seek treatment (including [...]
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The head of the Cyrenaica military council, Hamed Al Hassi, is threatening to take military action against armed groups who [...]
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Vidar Helgesen, secretary-general of the Sweden-based International Institute for Democracy [...]
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Abdellatif Maazouz, minister with responsibility for Moroccans residing abroad, was [...]
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Mahmud Jibril, leader of Libya's National Forces Alliance, met for [...]
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Libyan Central Bank (LCB) has sentenced nine banks to pay [...]
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TGCC (Travaux Generaux de Construction de Casablanca), a big Moroccan [...]
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Capital Invest, a venture capital fund under the wing of [...]
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Gitronica, an Italian manufacturer of electronic components used in household [...]
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Editor of the secular Al Arab daily based in London [...]
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The highly glamourous Alia Al Senussi is going to be [...]
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Cofounder of the job vacancies firm ReKrute.com that operates in [...]
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French foreign minister Laurent Fabius’ special envoy for the Sahel [...]
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Dropping in on Algiers on Nov. 4, France’s minister for [...]
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Two rival groups are fighting to represent the Tunisian opposition [...]
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