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Former ministers switch to the private sector

Switching to the private sector is fast becoming the favourite sport of former Tunisian government ministers. Two heavyweights in the former Habib Essid government, which gave way in August to that of Youssef Chahed, have just gone over to the [...] (564 words)

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TUNISIA
21 Century Consulting
Abdelaziz Rassaa
Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed
Ahmed Abdelkefi
Al Karama
Amel Karboul
Anouar Maarouf
Atos
Bayahi
Ben Ali
Chiheb Ben Ahmed
Ennahda
Fadhel
Former ministers find jobs with the billionaires
GSA
Habib Essid
Investec
Kamel Lazaar
Khelil Lajimi
Magasin General
Maghreb Economic Forum
Marouane Mabrouk
Mehdi Jomaa
MKC
Mondher Khanfir
Mongi Marzouk
Nidhal Ouerfelli
Noomane Fehri
Orange
Orange Tunisie
Poulina Group Holding
Procan
Proconsult
Ridha Saidi
Sicam
Stephane Richard
Swicorp
Tunisie Leasing
Youssef Chahed

After leaving government, Mongi Marzouk returns to Orange HQ in Paris

Remplacé début septembre par Salwa Sghaier, l'ancien ministre de l'énergie et des mines Mongi Marzouk a réintégré, à Paris, la direction d'Orange.

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Stéphane Richard and Xavier Niel left hungry for more after dinner with Kaïs Saied and Macron

Stéphane Richard and Xavier Niel, the heads of the two leading French telecommunications operators, made absolutely no progress in their Tunisian affairs by attending a dinner in Kaïs Saied's honour hosted by President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace on 22 June.

Stéphane Richard, CEO of Orange and Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad Free.

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Mongi Marzouk fights back at private renewable energy enterprise

To both protect the national power board STEG and assert his own position, the minister of energy wants to scupper the previous government's move to open Tunisia's electricity market to private solar power and wind farm developers.

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Poulina Group dreams big in Morocco

The industrial firm Poulina Group Holding (PGH), the second largest private group in Tunisia, has made a few key appointment changes within its Moroccan subsidiaries.

TUNISIA Politics 11/05/2020

Minister Marzouk appoints Mohsen Mansouri as chief of staff to energise his ministry

Mongi Marzouk is continuing to manœuvre to regain genuine control over the Ministry of Energy and Mines, which he has been back in charge of since late February.

TUNISIA Finance Business 02/04/2020

Moez Ben Zid returns to investment banking with CAP

Moez Ben Zid has just joined Capital African Partners Bank

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Kamel Ben Naceur tackles the energy question for Mehdi Jomaa

Former ministry of industry, energy and mines Kamel Ben Naceur

TUNISIA Business 21/02/2019

Ex-PGH boss Chiheb Ben Ahmed takes off again with Tunisair Free

After having been sacked as chief executive of Poulina Group Holding (PGH, MC 1327), former transport minister Chiheb Ben Ahmed

TUNISIA Business 14/02/2019

Musical chairs at the top at Poulina Group Holding

Industrial giant Poulina Group Holding (PGH), the country's second biggest private sector group, is changing bosses. According to our information,

TUNISIA Business 24/01/2019

Go Malta affair to be examined by parliament Free

Tunisie Telecom's highly controversial acquisition of Go Malta in 2016 will come before the Assembly of the Representatives of the

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Abdenour Souakri rescues Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed in Toggourt

There is no stopping Abdenour Souakri anymore! Souakri, who is

TUNISIA Business 22/11/2018

Karim Ammar takes charge of aquaculture at Bayahi

Karim Ammar, former director of the Poulina Group Holding (PGH)

TUNISIA Business 13/09/2018

The Mabrouk brothers extend their property business

Mohamed Ali Mabrouk, Ismail Mabrouk and Marouane Mabrouk have bought

TUNISIA Business 14/06/2018

Sacked Pharmacie Centrale boss Mokaddem joins Poulina

Moez Mokaddem, who was sacked from his post of chairman

TUNISIA Business 02/11/2017

Fahdel Abdelkefi returns to Integra Partners

Fadhel Abdelkefi, who was minister of finance and development until

TUNISIA Business 12/10/2017

Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed buys into Sfax biscuit business

Industrialist Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed plans to break the domination of

TUNISIA 21/09/2017

Maher Sellami lands Chahed office job

Maher Sellami, who was appointed head of Youssef Chahed's private

TUNISIA Business 21/09/2017

Bashar Lazaar switchs from blockchains to Swicorp

Financier Kamel Lazaar has just brought his son, Bashar Lazaar,

TUNISIA 20/07/2017

Ghannouchi wants to see Ridha Saidi at the finance ministry

Although prime minister Youssef Chahed has postponed his government reshuffle

TUNISIA Business 13/07/2017

Zitouna Bank sale: everything has got to go!

Islamic bank Zitouna is expected to be the object of the first of a new series of privatizations to be

TUNISIA Business 22/06/2017

Khelil Lajimi plays farmer for the Bayahi brothers

The Bayahi group aims to take full advantage of the

TUNISIA Business 11/05/2017

Alain Charmeau puts his microsatellites in orbit with Telnet

Airbus Safran Launchers chief executive Alain Charmeau is due in

TUNISIA Politics 20/04/2017

Ennahda welcomes IMF wage bill cuts

The attendance of a delegation led by prime minister Youssef Chahed at the spring meetings of the IMF and World

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TUNISIA Business 06/04/2017

Former French senator Marini pilots TFBank privatization

Philippe Marini, former senator for France’s Oise department and now mayor of Compiegne, north of Paris, has just got a foot in the Tunisian banking sector! According to our information, investment bank Gimar & Cie, where he heads the board

TUNISIA Business 23/02/2017

And Didier Charvet's successor at Orange is...

According to our sources, Orange Tunisie managing director Didier Charvet

TUNISIA 02/02/2017

Ridha Saidi opens the way for Tunisia Economic City

Ridha Saidi, adviser to prime minister Youssef Chahed in charge

TUNISIA Business 08/12/2016

Kamel Lazaar prepares to expand his property business

Kamel Lazaar, the Swiss-Tunisian head of merchant bank Swicorp, has

TUNISIA Diplomacy 01/12/2016

Riadh Bettaieb plays Turkish business scout

Ennahda has activated its own business diplomacy for the Tunisian

TUNISIA Politics 24/11/2016

Afif Chelbi will not work for Chahed

Afif Chelbi, who was industry minister from 2004 to 2011 and had been expected to join the private office of

TUNISIA Politics 10/11/2016

Chahed prepares his visit to Paris

Tunisian prime minister Youssef Chahed was careful to defuse a certain number of sensitive economic issues before starting his November

TUNISIA Business 10/11/2016

Ridha Saidi relaunches Ennahda’s new town project Free

Former economic affairs minister Ridha Saidi, who has just been appointed major projects adviser to prime minister Youssef Chahed, is

ALGERIA 27/10/2016

Cherif Rahmani fights off boredom at Ipemed

Cherif Rahmani, who has been quiet as a mouse since

TUNISIA Business 20/10/2016

Mabrouk covers his back at Orange Tunisie Internet

The long-running dispute between businessman Marouane Mabrouk and public sector holding company Al Karama for control of Orange Tunisie has

TUNISIA Diplomacy 13/10/2016

Fadhel Abdelkefi to meet Mogherini shortly

Development, investment and international cooperation minister Fadhel Abdelkefi will go

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TUNISIA Politics 01/09/2016

The reshuffle, an economic power grab!

The formation of the new government of Youssef Chahed, which has been in office since August 29, has not only enabled President Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE) to strengthen his grip over the executive. It has also provided an opportunity to

TUNISIA Business 24/03/2016

Kamel Lazaar extends his think tank to Geneva

Swicorp investment bank head Kamel Lazaar opened a subsidiary of

TUNISIA Business 07/01/2016

Chiheb Ben Ahmed pops back up at Poulina Free

Chiheb Ben Ahmed, former transport minister in the Mehdi Jomaâ government, has joined industrial giant Poulina Group Holding after several

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Mehdi Jomaâ sets up in Place Vendôme

Mehdi Jomaâ has chosen the Hotel de Latour-Maubourg at number

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TUNISIA Politics 02/07/2015

How Essebsi will let Ben Ali’s business pals off the hook

President Beji Caid Essebsi’s chief-of-staff, Ridha Belhaj, is working to put a halt to legal action against businessmen from Ben Ali’s old clan in the name of national reconciliation, economic revival - and an alliance between the ruling Nidaa Tounes

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Essebsi weighs in to lift asset seizures

Will the government of Habib Essid dare to appeal against the administrative court’s decision annulling the confiscation of assets belonging

TUNISIA Business 02/10/2014

Jomaa takes back Al Karama brief

Prime minister Mehdi Jonaa is seeking to take over the process of selling firms confiscated the Ben Ali clan. According

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TUNISIA Business 17/04/2014

Orange’s ultimatum won’t resolve the issue

Revealed by Maghreb Confidential in its last issue (MC 1106), Orange’s warning shot against its partner, Marouane Mabrouk, had the desired effect. By threatening to dissolve its subsidiary Orange Tunisie, the French telecommunications giant wormed its way back into talks

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TUNISIA Politics 09/01/2014

Where new PM Jomaa will find advice

Medhi Jomaa, who is to take over as Tunisia’s prime minister on Jan. 9, was picked because of his profile as a political outsider. To such a point, in fact, that he sorely lacks a network of backers to help

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TUNISIA Politics 04/07/2013

A lost occasion for Hollande

The agenda for French president François Hollande's visit to Tunisia on July-5 offered ample proof that the mutual suspicion between Paris and the ruling Ennahda party still runs as deep as ever. To the extent that crucial security ties are

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TUNISIA Business 22/11/2012

The people seeking Trabelsi's empire

Confronted by an ever tighter budget squeeze, the ruling Ennahda-CPR-FDTL coalition is seeking to sell off the largest number of companies that belonged to the Ben Ali-Trabelsi clan as quickly as possible. The situation has whetted the appetite of many

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Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed
Ahmed Abdelkefi
Al Karama
Amel Karboul
Anouar Maarouf
Atos
Bayahi
Ben Ali
Chiheb Ben Ahmed
Ennahda
Fadhel
Former ministers find jobs with the billionaires
GSA
Habib Essid
Investec
Kamel Lazaar
Khelil Lajimi
Magasin General
Maghreb Economic Forum
Marouane Mabrouk
Mehdi Jomaa
MKC
Mondher Khanfir
Mongi Marzouk
Nidhal Ouerfelli
Noomane Fehri
Orange
Orange Tunisie
Poulina Group Holding
Procan
Proconsult
Ridha Saidi
Sicam
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Mongi Marzouk fights back at private renewable energy enterprise

Poulina Group dreams big in Morocco

Minister Marzouk appoints Mohsen Mansouri as chief of staff to energise his ministry

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Ex-PGH boss Chiheb Ben Ahmed takes off again with Tunisair Free

Musical chairs at the top at Poulina Group Holding

Go Malta affair to be examined by parliament Free

Abdenour Souakri rescues Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed in Toggourt

Karim Ammar takes charge of aquaculture at Bayahi

The Mabrouk brothers extend their property business

Sacked Pharmacie Centrale boss Mokaddem joins Poulina

Fahdel Abdelkefi returns to Integra Partners

Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed buys into Sfax biscuit business

Maher Sellami lands Chahed office job

Bashar Lazaar switchs from blockchains to Swicorp

Ghannouchi wants to see Ridha Saidi at the finance ministry

Zitouna Bank sale: everything has got to go!

Khelil Lajimi plays farmer for the Bayahi brothers

Alain Charmeau puts his microsatellites in orbit with Telnet

Ennahda welcomes IMF wage bill cuts

Former French senator Marini pilots TFBank privatization

And Didier Charvet's successor at Orange is...

Ridha Saidi opens the way for Tunisia Economic City

Kamel Lazaar prepares to expand his property business

Riadh Bettaieb plays Turkish business scout

Afif Chelbi will not work for Chahed

Chahed prepares his visit to Paris

Ridha Saidi relaunches Ennahda’s new town project Free

Cherif Rahmani fights off boredom at Ipemed

Mabrouk covers his back at Orange Tunisie Internet

Fadhel Abdelkefi to meet Mogherini shortly

The reshuffle, an economic power grab!

Kamel Lazaar extends his think tank to Geneva

Chiheb Ben Ahmed pops back up at Poulina Free

Mehdi Jomaâ sets up in Place Vendôme

How Essebsi will let Ben Ali’s business pals off the hook

Essebsi weighs in to lift asset seizures

Jomaa takes back Al Karama brief

Orange’s ultimatum won’t resolve the issue

Where new PM Jomaa will find advice

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The people seeking Trabelsi's empire

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