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Tunisia

Business heavyweights vie for Asian truck dealerships

The country’s business heavyweights are all trying to get into Asian trucks! According to our sources, the HBG holding company, [...]

Free access Business 12.01.2017

Plenty of takers for Dar Assabah and Shems FM

State holding company Al Karama, which has the job of managing companies confiscated from the Ben Ali-Trabelsi clan, should have [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.01.2017

Arjo Systems wins biometric passports contract

A little-known SME specializing in secure IDs, Arjo Systems has beaten the international sector leaders to the punch in Tunis. [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.01.2017

Ben Ali’s Swiss treasure stays frozen

Swiss ambassador in Tunisia Rita Adams tried to reassure Minister of Justice Ghazi Jeribi on Wednesday January 4 concerning restitution [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.01.2017

DynCorp in slipstream of Kiowa helicopters

US defence services company DynCorp is to provide maintenance in [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.01.2017

Ali Kassab ventures into risk capital via AKA Partners

Ali Kassab is going into start-up investment in Tunisia. Kassab, [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.01.2017

Fraj Gribaa is head of Al Mutawasit

The Al Mutawasit TV channel, which is very close to [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.01.2017

Industrialist Selim Riahi consolidates his holding company

Selim Riahi, heir of industrialist Mohamed Riahi, has increased from [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.01.2017

Mohamed Hamdi Nasra reinvents himself as an aid worker

Mohamed Hamdi Nasra, head of public relations company Hannibal Communication [...]

Subscribers only 05.01.2017

Spotlight
Counter-terrorism boss Rajhi takes charge of the police

The appointment of Ramzi Rajhi to replace the exhausted Abderrahmen Belhaj Ali (read below) as head of the DGSN national security directorate on December 16 is only the latest stage in Rajhi’s lightning rise through the ranks at the Ministry [.

Subscribers only Politics 22.12.2016

Qatari "gift" goes to repay Qatar National Bank loan

The promise made by the Emir of Qatar, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, at the Tunisia 2020 forum at the [...]

Free access Business 22.12.2016

The state sells off the crumbs of the Belhassen Trabelsi empire

After having sold off the main components of Belhassen Trabelsi’s industrial empire, including Carthage Cement, Tunisie Sucre and Alpha Ford, [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.12.2016

Why Chahed was missing on December 17

Prime minister Youssef Chahed made the right call when he cancelled plans to take part in the ceremonies to mark [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.12.2016

Radwan Masmoudi is on Trump's tail

Chief Ennahda party US lobbyist Radwan Masmoudi is working hard [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 22.12.2016

Euroestudios to go after agricultural dam contracts

Madrid-based consulting engineering concern Euroestudios has opened a branch in [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.12.2016

Jamel Mokadem hitches up to the Doghris

Industrialist Jamel Mokadem, who specializes in the assembly of transport [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.12.2016

Riadh Ben Fadhel goes into yachting on Lake Tunis

Riadh Ben Fadhel, head of the Impact public relations group [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.12.2016

French senator Evelyne Yonnet celebrates the revolution

Evelyne Yonnet, French Socialist senator for Seine-Saint Denis, just north [...]

Subscribers only 22.12.2016

Inter-Con Security stays on guard duty at the US embassy

Californian private sector security group Inter-Con Security Systems (ICS) has succeeded in holding on to its main customer in Tunisia. [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.12.2016

"PPDA" celebrates the revolution with Chahed

Former star French TV presenter Patrick Poivre d’Arvor ("PPDA") has [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 15.12.2016

BIAT puts its money on property

The Mabrouk brothers’ BIAT bank (Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie) [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.12.2016

Trying times for Taieb Baccouche at the AMU

Former Tunisian foreign minister Taieb Bacchouche is encountering difficulties at [...]

Subscribers only 15.12.2016

Noureddine Taboubi wants UGTT leadership job

Noureddine Taboubi, who is currently UGTT assistant general secretary in [...]

Subscribers only 15.12.2016

French TV star under Ben Ammar’s spell

If he carries on as he is, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor ("PPDA") will end up replacing his brother, Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 08.12.2016

Karim Nasr's virtual mobile operator still looking for funds

Karim Nasr, head of call centre group Helpbytel, is struggling [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.12.2016

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