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Chahed offers Brahem's head to Ennahda

In dismissing interior minister Lotfi Brahem on June 6 after 84 migrants died when their boat sank off the Kerkennah [...]

Published on 14.06.2018 at 03:30 GMT

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Beji Caid Essebsi
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Ghazi Jeribi
Hafedh Caid Essebsi
Lotfi Brahem
Nidaa Tounes
Rached Ghannouchi
Rym Reguig
UGTT
Youssef Chahed

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Hannibal Jegham puts his cement plant back on the tatami

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Beji Caid Essebsi and Rached Ghannouchi renew contact

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Taieb Baccouche sees himself in Carthage Palace

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"BCE" considers replacing Chahed with Mondher Zenaidi

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Youssef Chahed obligated to Slim Riahi… and Ennahda

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Interior minister Hichem Fourati will accommodate Ennahda

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Ghannouchi negotiates Chahed's exit

The fate of prime minister Youssef Chahed is now in the hands of Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi. President Beji [...]

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Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party.

Tunisia
How Ennahda won control of Tunis

Ennahda candidate Souad Abderrahim, who was elected mayor of Tunis on July 3, owes her victory to internal dissensions in [...]

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Souad Abderrahim celebrates after being elected mayor of Tunis

Tunisia
Karoui forgets his cares in the shade of the Eiffel Tower

Publicist Nabil Karoui, who heads the Nessma TV channel, has [...]

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Tunisia
After the Kerkennah drama, the civil protection service kits up

The shipwreck off the Kerkennah Islands, in which 84 would-be [...]

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Tunisia
Chahed could yet escape the sack

Even though Nidaa Tounes, Ennahda, the UGTT and UTICA, all of which were consulted by Beji Caid Essebsi under the [...]

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Tunisia
"BCE" still wants to neutralise Chahed

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Tunisia
Lotfi Brahem hamstrung by Ennahda

Interior minister Lotfi Brahem is struggling to make his mark at the powerful ministry on Avenue Habib-Bourguiba. According to our [...]

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Essebsi sets up a shadow government to bypass Chahed

President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") has unleashed a secret weapon aimed at further isolating his prime minister, Youssef Chahed. With tension between the two increasing as the 2019 presidential elections approach (MC 1269), "BCE" has set about turning the National [.

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Youssef Chahed and Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE).

Tunisia
Sellami musters pro-Chahed deputies

Businessman Moncef Sellami could soon cause the walls of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People (ARP) to tremble. [...]

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Tunisia
"Si Hafedh" delighted by reshuffle

Hafedh Caid Essebsi ("HCE") was not short of reasons to express his delight on social networks over the September 6 [...]

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Youssef Chahed wants to be free of Essebsi before 2019

The hand-to-hand fighting between President Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE) and his prime minister, Youssef Chahed, has been restrained until now but is going to become more intense as the government reshuffle, expected after the September 1 Eid al-Adha celebration, approaches.

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Tunisia
Ennahda exfiltrated from government?

Five weeks after his April 30 reshuffle, prime minister Youssef Chahed could change the government line-up once again. According to [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
"BCE" struggles to get a grip on Tataouine revolt

The protests sweeping across the Tataouine region are not only the result of the widespread unemployment afflicting southern Tunisia. President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") is also paying for his erratic management of the most serious social crisis in the country [.

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UGTT and UTICA at war after BCE-Ghannouchi break-up

Despite the renewal of support from the signatories of the 2016 Carthage Declaration for prime minister Youssef Chahed on March 11, the agreement, which made possible the formation of the government of national union, is more than ever under threat.

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Chahed offers Brahem's head to Ennahda

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Rym Reguig follows HCE to France

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Hannibal Jegham puts his cement plant back on the tatami

Tunisia
Beji Caid Essebsi and Rached Ghannouchi renew contact

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Taieb Baccouche sees himself in Carthage Palace

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"BCE" considers replacing Chahed with Mondher Zenaidi

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Interior minister Hichem Fourati will accommodate Ennahda

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Karoui forgets his cares in the shade of the Eiffel Tower

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Chahed could yet escape the sack

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