Your account has been succesfully created.

EN FR

Tunisia

Merger in the cards for Orange & TT?

Nobody seems to have an immediate answer to the question of what to do with the 51% stake in Orange [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.09.2011

Bashir Al Sheppah

Bashir Al Sheppah, a director of the Dubai-based North Africa [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 15.09.2011

Jose Fernandez

Jose Fernandez, assistant secretary of state for business affairs, will [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 15.09.2011

Spotlight
Ennahdha’s secret weapon: associations

With a few weeks to go before elections to the constituent parliament, scheduled for Oct. 23, the moderate Islamic Ennahdha party is a clear front-runner in public opinion polls. And a powerful network of associations has sprung up to support [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.09.2011

Celamin in strong phosphate push

Taoufik Mansouri, the boss of Tunisian Mining Services and local partner of the Australian miner Celamin, has cause to celebrate. [...]

Free access Business 08.09.2011

Once-banned paper hits the stands

Thirty years after it was launched as a weekly, the publication Le Maghreb, banned in the early 1990s, has re-appeared [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.09.2011

Will Paris extradite El Materi’s father?

An international arrest warrant was issued on Aug. 26 for Moncef El Materi, father of Sakher el Materi, son-in-law of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.09.2011

Mohamed Fethi Sassi

Mohamed Fethi Sassi, boss of the GEBCOM import-export group, has [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 08.09.2011

Orion Management

Orion Management and Acuna, better known under the name TAC [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.09.2011

Tunimedia

Tunimedia, owner of Tunisia's first private television channel, Hannibal TV, [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.09.2011

Maher Abderrahmane

A former newsman on Tunisia’s national television channel and co-founder [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.09.2011

Mohamed Ben Rhouma

Tunisia's high tech bosses have launched an Association Tunisienne pour [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.09.2011

Marc Barety

Maghreb Confidential understands that France’s ambassador to Malaysia, Marc Barety, [...]

Subscribers only 08.09.2011

Moez Souabni

Son in law of Abdelwaheb Abdallah (long-standing adviser to Zine [...]

Subscribers only 08.09.2011

Breakaway group to rival UTICA

The leading Tunisian employers federation UTICA (Union Tunisienne de l'Industrie, du Commerce et de l'Artisanat) will soon find itself facing [...]

Subscribers only 08.09.2011

Rebrab, gentleman farmer minus land

The boss of Cevital, Algeria’s leading private company, Issad Rebrab seems intent on becoming the kingpin of the local fruit [...]