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N°1073 - Paris, 07/18/2013 Lazare Beullac MOROCCO Editor in Chief Tamim now Mohamed VI's best pal The ascension of emir Tamim to the throne in Qatar in succession to his father Hamad on June 25 could well give to a landmark improvement in relations between Doha and Rabat. And with that, a bounty of contracts for friends of Mohamed VI. (...)     ALGERIA Setback for Rebrab on plastic front Sonatrach could well dash the hopes of billionaire Issad Rebrab to become Algeria's top plastic producer. The boss of Cevital, who has been seeking for years to build a plant to make (...) Douiri works to spare Sefriouis     With hisIstiqlal party about to quit the government coalition, energy and mines minister Fouad Douiri is seeking to spare the Sefrioui family from attacks by the PJD (Islamist) minister (...)    Douri leaves time bomb under ONHYM The minister for energy and mines, Fouad Douri, appears determined  (...)    CMA CGM tracks Hani down in Paris     The bitter legal battle between the shipping company CMA CGM and the former boss (and still stakeholder) in its Algerian affiliate, CMA CGM Algerie, Lazhar Hani (>MC 1058) has shifted (...)    CNRC CNRC (Centre National du Registre du Commerce) in Algeria has  (...)    Ghelber defuses disquiet over PPP     As Tunisia's constituent Parliament is taking its time to vote on a bill concerning public-private partnerships (PPPs) that international donors are strongly urging upon the country (...)    Bouzguenda Bouzguenda, a construction group founded by the brothers Mohamed  (...)    Driss in hotel deal Moez Driss is having a pretty active summer. Shortly after selling  (...)    Paris pushes CMN corvettes     Maghreb Confidential understands the shipyard Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie (CMN) has been getting a lot of backing in its bid to sell its wares in Libya. (...)    Tuareg Capital back in Tripoli     After keeping largely out of sight for two years, the Libyan venture capital firm Tuareg Capital, based in Bahrain, has returned to Libya. (...)    Thales Thales and Cassidian, a subsidiary of EADS, had been working  (...)    Tactic PR Tactic PR, a joint venture between Britain's Aspect Consulting  (...)    Former BND boss will help put paid to fake papers Beating out its French and Pakistani rivals, respectivelyMorpho  (...)    LIBYAN EMBASSY, PARIS Zag tipped as defense attache    Colonel Abdel Zag, one of the officers who sees to procurements for Libya's Navy, could be named defence attache at Libya's embassy in Paris in succession to Ali Milad, an Air Force officer.  (...)    STATE PROPERTY MINISTRY, TUNIS ATCE case back under microscope    The state property minister Slim ben Hmidane and finance minister Elyses Fakhfakh are about to re-open the explosive case ofAgence Tunisienne de Communication Exterieure (ATCE) which handled Tunisia's public relations abroad during the Ben Ali period and kept a close eye on the nation's media.  (...)    GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS, TRIPOLI Militia chiefs trip up Zeidan    Prime minister Ali Zeidan's decision to drop a project to set up a National Guard backed by NATO reveals his powerlessness when it comes to confronting half a dozen key militiamen who truly rule the country and were dead set against the project.  (...)    Tripoli mayor Al Badri may quit The mayor of Tripoli, Sadat Al Badri, is reportedly ready to organize elections between now and October  (...)    Jebali's ultimatum to Ennahda Hamadi Jebali is anxious to quickly clarify his situation within the Ennahda movement, of which he is  (...)    Widespread search for Al Jouili  Kidnapped in Tripoli on July 16, the engineer and businessman Salah al Jouili, is the cousin of former  (...)    London/Tripoli Dominic Asquith, the special envoy and then British ambassador to Tripoli between 2011-2012, will head a trade delegation to Libya that's being organized by the Libyan British Business Council (LBBC) between Sept.  (...)    Tripoli/Kampala Fawzi Boukatif, former chief of the February 17 Brigade in Benghazi, has flown to Uganda, where he was named ambassador in June.  (...)    Tunis/Ankara Mohamed Al Adel sees himself as someone who can tighten ties between Turkey, where he holds citizenship, and his native Tunisia.  (...)

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