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Tunisia

Tataouine gas project runs into delays

The Tataouine Gas Project (TGP), which involves building a large gas processing unit in this deprived city, is having trouble [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.10.2018

Maersk gets its ship back but cuts back on its local activities

The Maersk group paid a high price to obtain the liberation of its container ship Alexander Maersk on September 28 [...]

Free access Business 04.10.2018

Minnikhanov leads in Tatar business group

Tatar president Rustam Minnikhanov, who is due meet President Beji [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.10.2018

Spotlight
Chahed scrapes out the barrel for the 2019 budget

Having temporarily staved off the threat of being sacked by President Beji Caid Essebsi, Youssef Chahed must now deal with another and equally pressing emergency, namely balancing the state budget. The prime minister will have to defend the 2019 finance [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.09.2018

Maersk struggles to free its container ship in the port of Sfax

Giant shipping group Maersk is pulling out all the stops to have lifted the seizure of its container ship Alexander [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.09.2018

Event firms target francophone summit

With just a month to go to the next summit of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) on October [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.09.2018

Presidential party set to lose Hafedh Caid Essebsi

The rout suffered by Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE"), who, in a TV speech on September 25, was forced to drop [...]

Subscribers only Politics 27.09.2018

Ridha Chalghoum wants embassy job

Tunisian finance minister Ridha Chalghoum could soon embark on a [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 27.09.2018

Alere aims to detect future epidemics in the Maghreb

Alere, the disease detection equipment specialist which was taken over [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.09.2018

Former minister Gamra adds consultancy firm to his portfolio

Jamel Gamra, who was tourism minister in the government of [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.09.2018

Hedi Beji moves out of the shadows to EDS-Photovoltaique

Low profile industrialist Hedi Beji has just completed the takeover [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.09.2018

Deputy Ghannem wants to rebuild the Bey's Palace in Paris

Mohamed Ghannem, the Afek Tounes deputy representing Tunisians living in [...]

Subscribers only 27.09.2018

European consultants to work on Ladhari's regional programme

Investment and development minister Zied Ladhari (Ennahda) has recruited IBF [...]

Subscribers only 27.09.2018

Container ship Alexander Maersk arrested in Sfax

Leading global container shipping group Maersk, which has already been forced to close its subsidiary Maersk Tunisia by transport minister [...]