MARCH 4, 2000 - 77th. ISSUE
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This
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-Competition in Morocco's Internet |
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TUNISIA
- PRIVATIZATION PACE OF PRIVATIZATION TO SPEED UP
Privation in Tunisia is set to pick up pace in the next two years. That’s at least what Fethi Mardassi, the minister of international cooperation and foreign investment has announced recently.
MOROCCO
-INTERNET
MAROC TELECOM & FRANCE TELECOM INVEST
IN THEIR MOROCCAN INTERNET BUSINESS
Internet in Morocco is expected to grow considerably in the
next few months as a number of key players are preparing to compete
for this emerging market.
ALGERIA
- TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS
ALGIERS: FROM A SUPER-CAPITAL TO A
PROVINCE (WILAYA)
Algiers has changed its status. For the last three years
Algiers has held the special status of Super-Capital (Gouvernorat) but
the government reversed this status and transformed Algiers into a Wilaya
or province as it was in the past.
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The
Algerian Debt And France
The visit to France this week of the Algerian finance minister, Abdelatif
Benachenou, began with a meeting held with Francois David, the head
of the French foreign trade guarantee and insurance fund, Coface. The
topic of their meeting focused primarily on the credit risk of French
companies that trade with or invest in Algeria.
Seven
Companies Compete for a Moroccan VSAT License
The Moroccan telecom watchdog and regulatory agency ANRT (Agence Nationale
de Réglementation des Télécommunications) has received applications
from 15 companies competing for 3 Vsat licenses. Only 7 of these companies
remain officially in competition as the remaining firms dropped out
of the race. ANRT is expected to make a final decision at the end of
March.
Italian
Chief Anti-Mafia Enforces in Algiers
General Carlo Alfriedo, the top Italian anti-Mafia enforcer, was in
Algiers this week to share his views on anti-terrorism strategies and
the fight against organized crime. Gen. Alfriedo spoke to an audience
of Algerian police officers in their academy in Chateauneuf, Algiers.
In the audience were Colonel Ali Tounsi, the head of the Algerian police,
the chief of the investigation office (police judiciaire) Mr. Afani,
and his officer in charge of the city of Algiers, Mr. Boufania.
Company
to Watch - SAIDAL
CEO Begins Debate on His Company’s Privatization
This week, the state-owned pharmaceutical
company Saidal celebrated its eleventh year and its top executive, Ali
Aoun, did not hesitate to say that if it were up to him, he would float
60% of the company’s capital into the new stock exchange.
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