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Tunisia

FLSmidth faces fresh legal action in Carthage Cement affair

Stormy weather on the way for Danish engineering giant FLSmidth! According to Maghreb Confidential’s sources, state-owned holding company Al Karama [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.03.2016

Jean-Marc Ayrault paves the way for Valls

Jean-Marc Ayrault chose Tunisia for his first visit to the [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 10.03.2016

Syaha Capital hotel fund has run out of steam

The Syaha Capital fund, set up by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) and investment bank Swicorp to acquire [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.03.2016

Ayari to be questioned on BFT affair

Central Bank of Tunisia (CBT) governor Chedly Ayari was recently summoned by the administrative reform, good governance and anti-corruption committee [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.03.2016

Chief-of-staff Fathali seeks extra military aid

Head of the Tunisian army general staff Ismaïl Fathali plans [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 03.03.2016

The EBRD called in to back STEG rehabilitation plan

State-owned STEG (Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz) has [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.03.2016

The Doghris bring in the new generation

Hassine, Néjib and Moncef Doghri, the brothers who inherited the [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.03.2016

Mohamed Foued Aloui is still waiting for his helicopters

Plans to modernize the Tunisian air force’s Gazelle helicopters with [...]

Subscribers only 03.03.2016

Spotlight | Document
Artcurial to auction Ben Ali's Rolls, Bentleys and Ferraris

Seventeen luxury vehicles seized from the entourage of former president Ben Ali will shortly be put up for auction by French auction house Artcurial, according to our sources. But this symbolic sale will not be enough to mask the failures [.

Subscribers only Politics 25.02.2016

SNC-Lavalin puts Ben Aïssa years behind it

Canadian project engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has appointed Ridha Omri as head of all its subsidiaries in Tunisia. Omri is a [...]

Free access Business 25.02.2016

Derouiche presses governors over urban cleaning privatization

Minister of Sustainable Development and the Environment Néjib Derouiche has not given up on opening up urban cleaning to the [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.02.2016

Martin Schulz defends BCE and Essid

President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") and his prime minister Habib [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 25.02.2016

International SOS sets up a subsidiary amidst security fears

French medical assistance and expatriate security group International SOS has [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.02.2016

Kevin Sara looks for sponsors for TuNur at the EU

Britain’s Nur Energie group, headed by Kevin Sara, is looking [...]

Subscribers only Business 25.02.2016

World Bank forces trade registry to open up

The World Bank is to finance renovation of the Tunisian [...]

Subscribers only 25.02.2016

Mongi Marzouk rebuffed in the Perenco affair

Oil minister Mongi Marzouk, who appeared before the energy commission [...]

Subscribers only 25.02.2016

Veteran merchant bank IMBank goes up for sale

Tunisia’s oldest merchant bank, IMBank (International Maghreb Merchant Bank) could soon change hands. According to our information, the bank’s principal [...]