Cancelled at the last minute on the evening of Oct. 18 - and just after it had been confirmed - Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi 's trip to Algeria is causing tongues to wag in Algiers.
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Will Morocco’s private business community rise up against royal holding companies? According to our sources, the merger between the SNI [...]
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Change is in the air in Morocco’s publishing world. According to our sources, GeoMedia is planning to launch a French-language [...]
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Private wheat importers have just seen their worst fears confirmed (MC 939). From now on they will have to pay [...]
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British and American companies are imitating their German counterparts who are getting their act together for a special "water" mission [...]
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The sale of Banque Franco–Tunisienne (BFT) by state-owned Societe Tunisienne de Banque (STB) is quickly moving ahead. Maghreb Confidential understands [...]
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It could just be a coincidence but a week after the European Union announced it was granting EUR 70 million [...]
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The campaign for France's presidential election in 2012 is already up and running among French expatriates in Morocco. A Moroccan [...]
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The air base of Morocco’s Forces Royales Air (FRA) at Benslimanme is being upgraded to play host to the two [...]
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The Carthage Palace promoted Foued Daghfous on Oct. 13 to the post of minister in charge of state-owned property in [...]
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Moundji Maoui, an appeals court lawyer in Paris, has turned [...]
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Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, leader of Qatar, may find [...]
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Yves-Thibault de Silguy, vice president of Vinci, will moderate a [...]
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Odysee, a new retail group owned by Algeria’s Cherfaoui family, [...]
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McDonald’s has plans to open its first fast-food outlet in [...]
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LBM (Leader des Biscuits Mediterraneens), a Tunisian biscuit maker run [...]
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HSBC is still thinking of starting to operate as a [...]
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His star keeps rising in Tunisian business circles. Mehdi Khouaja [...]
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Highly discreet since he was edged out of the top [...]
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The Ben Yedder family, which owns Amen Bank, has pulled [...]
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The boss of Isla Invest, Zoubeir Ben Terdeyet, is promoting [...]
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Tension between tribes remains rife in Libya and Saif el [...]
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Muammar Gaddafi’s chief of protocol, Nouri Mesmari, is currently in [...]
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The wife of Marouane Mabrouk, Cyrine Ben Ali, daughter of [...]
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Conservative forces in Libya seem to be especially edgy at [...]
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