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Energy 23/05/2023

Tunis' new energy strategy fails to convince foreign investors

Tunisia has been trying to attract new foreign investors to its energy sector. But red tape and other administrative hurdles make many firms wary.

Diplomacy 19/05/2023

Gérald Darmanin aborts Tunis trip

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin was supposed to have accompanied his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantedosi on a visit to Tunis on 16 but his assertion that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was "incapable of solving the migration problems" made a joint trip impossible, so Piantedosi travelled alone.

Defence Business 12/05/2023

Business France focuses efforts on North African security markets

France's business development agency is striving to attract French companies back into the Tunisian and Libyan security and civil protection markets. France is preparing a cooperation partnership with Libya and a financing plan for Tunisia.

Diplomacy 09/05/2023

Jordan enters race for top Union for the Mediterranean seat

Jordan is entering the race for the Union for the Mediterranean secretary general seat in 2024, for which Tunisia and Mauritania have already submitted candidates.

Business 04/05/2023

SONEDE awards major contracts to boost water supplies

After several years of drought, Tunisia is racing against the clock to upgrade its drinking water supply network.

Diplomacy 27/04/2023

Foreign minister Nabil Ammar sacks head of Europe department

Nommé en février, le nouveau ministre tunisien des affaires étrangères, Nabil Ammar, impose peu à peu à sa marque. Sans bruit, il a limogé mi-mars le directeur général pour l'Europe, l'Union européenne et la Méditerranée du ministère, Khalil Tazarki.

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Politics 24/04/2023

Kais Saied mulls reviving information ministry

As media outlets critical of his administration come under increasing pressure, the Tunisian president is considering setting up a dedicated government department, such as existed during the Ben Ali era.

Tunisian President Kaïs Saied visiting the headquarters of Snipe-La Presse on 11 March 2023.

Diplomacy 20/04/2023

Union for the Mediterranean members jostle for top post

Egyptian diplomat Nasser Kamel's term as secretary-general of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), which he has led since 2018, ends next year. Behind the scenes, negotiations are already underway between member states to appoint his successor.

Business 18/04/2023

Samir Majoul hopes to extend leadership of employers' group

The tycoon's term as UTICA chairman officially ended in January, but he is trying to negotiate an extension amid troubled times.

The chairman of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, with Samir Majoul, the chairman of UTICA, in Tunis on 29 March 2022.

Politics 06/04/2023

New parliament's support for Kais Saied highly uncertain Free

Despite his best efforts, the Tunisian president's declared supporters are very much in the minority in the new Assembly of the Representatives of the People.

Politics 04/04/2023

Hayet Guettat brings culture ministry into line for Kais Saied

Tunisian cultural affairs minister Hayet Guettat is making great efforts to strengthen her control over her ministry and to make sure she is noticed by the Tunisian president. She hopes to get a ministerial post with a bigger budget allocation in future.

Defence Diplomacy 27/03/2023

Washington drags its feet over final phase of Tunisian-Libyan Border Security Project

Launched in 2016 the project is suffering from the increasingly frosty relations between the administration of Joe Biden and President Kais Saied.

Tunisian soldiers stand on a sandbank of the anti-jihadi fence, near Ben Guerdane, eastern Tunisia, close to the border with Libya, the 6th of February 2016.

Politics 24/03/2023

Saied blindsided by Taoufik Charfeddine resignation

The interior minister's public announcement that he was stepping down was not cleared by the Tunisian president, who had not yet made up his mind about his successor.

The former Tunisian Minister of the Interior Taoufik Charfeddine.

Diplomacy 24/03/2023

Anne Guéguen expected to head French embassy in Tunis

Anne Guéguen, the French foreign ministry's North Africa and Middle East director, is expected to succeed André Parant as France's ambassador in Tunis.

Politics 22/03/2023

Kaïs Saïed tightens control over new parliament

The president has instructed the speaker of the new Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple, the Tunisian parliament, Brahim Bouderbala, to do away with parliamentary structures that could constitute counter-powers to his increasingly autocratic rule.

Energy 20/03/2023

PSI boss Motaleb Boubakri extends business interests to Mauritania

Together with its local partner PHI Group, the Tunisian firm Pétrole Services Industriel has won a $5.5m contract to construct pipelines for Société mauritanienne des hydrocarbures.

Diplomacy 13/03/2023

EU Maghreb delegation looks to turn page on Qatargate by choosing a new chairperson

The European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Maghreb Countries, several members of which are concerned by the alleged corruption scandal involving Qatar and Morocco, hopes to restore its image by electing a new chairperson.

Diplomacy 10/03/2023

EU divided over approach to take with Saied

When they gather in Brussels later this month, the European Union's 27 foreign ministers will be looking to reconcile their divergent views over Tunisia, with IMF loans, the crackdown on the opposition and the migrant crisis all on the agenda.

Tunisian President Kais Saied at the headquarters of the European Commission in 2021.

Politics Diplomacy 09/03/2023

Iraq and Tunisia neck and neck for top job at Institut du Monde Arabe

Iraqi poet Chawki Abdelamir and Tunisian philosopher Rachida Triki are vying to run the Arab cultural institution in Paris. The imminent appointment of a new president should help speed up the decision process that has been unfolding behind closed doors.

Politics Diplomacy 02/03/2023

PM rues closure of French atomic energy office in Tunis

La représentation régionale du Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) en Tunisie plie bagage. Sa dissolution a été actée par le CEA le 1er février.

Politics 01/03/2023

President Saied gives interior minister Charfeddine the cold shoulder

Why is Taoufik Charfeddine not involved in the current wave of arrests of the Tunisian president's opponents? The interior minister has been kept to one side since an alleged plot affair in November, and his influence in the government has begun to wane.

Diplomacy 01/03/2023

African Union scolds Tunis after Saied attack on sub-Saharan migrants

Several African Union member countries have expressed discontent with Tunisia after President Kais Saied's controversial statement on sub-Saharan African migrants.

Infrastructure 23/02/2023

SEGOR bags another water pumping concession

SEGOR on 2 February bagged a €7.6m concession to operate pumping stations in the Tunisian towns of Sfax, Gabès and Médenine. That came just months after it signed up for the management of part of the infrastructure of the ONAS national sanitation office in a deal last June worth €26m.

Politics Diplomacy 20/02/2023

New Foreign Affairs Minister Nabil Ammar's ties to Saied and Sahel

Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in February, Nabil Ammar had the help of Chief of Protocol Naoufel Hdia and President Saied's in-laws.

The new minister of foreign affairs, Nabil Ammar, sworn in on 7 February 2023.

Inner circles Defence Politics 17/02/2023

Kais Saied fills his regime's top posts with military men

The Tunisian leader is increasingly seen flanked by military commanders and has placed loyalist generals and colonels in government ministries and in his own private office. The growing role of the military, which in Tunisia has traditionally been kept well away from politics, is causing growing concern.

President Kais Saied with members of the special unit of the Tunisian National Guard, in Bir Bou Rekba (Nabeul state), in August 2021.

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Tunis' new energy strategy fails to convince foreign investors

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Jordan enters race for top Union for the Mediterranean seat

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Foreign minister Nabil Ammar sacks head of Europe department

Kais Saied mulls reviving information ministry

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Samir Majoul hopes to extend leadership of employers' group

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Kaïs Saïed tightens control over new parliament

PSI boss Motaleb Boubakri extends business interests to Mauritania

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Foreign minister Nabil Ammar sacks head of Europe department

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Union for the Mediterranean members jostle for top post

Samir Majoul hopes to extend leadership of employers' group

New parliament's support for Kais Saied highly uncertain Free

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Washington drags its feet over final phase of Tunisian-Libyan Border Security Project

Saied blindsided by Taoufik Charfeddine resignation

Anne Guéguen expected to head French embassy in Tunis

Kaïs Saïed tightens control over new parliament

PSI boss Motaleb Boubakri extends business interests to Mauritania

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EU divided over approach to take with Saied

Iraq and Tunisia neck and neck for top job at Institut du Monde Arabe

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