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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. [...] (611 words)

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TUNISIA
Abid Briki
Aramys
Beji Caid Essebsi
Belhassen Gherab
Chakib Nouira
Ennahda
Hafedh Caid Essebsi
Jalloul offered Nidaa Tounes presidency to calm UGTT?
Khalil Ghariani
Machrou Tounes
Mohsen Marzouk
Nafaa Ennaifer
National Leather and Shoe Federation
National Textile Federation
Neji Jalloul
Noureddine Taboubi
Rached Ghannouchi
TFCE
UGTT
Utica
Wided Bouchamaoui
Youssef Chahed

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, [...]

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UGTT to set up its own political party?

The powerful UGTT trade union could take part directly in [...]

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TUNISIA Politics 29/11/2018

Pro-Chahed alliance starts to show cracks

The patchwork alliance surrounding prime minister Youssef Chahed is already starting to show cracks with more than a year still to go to the parliamentary and presidential elections. Members of parliament who support the prime minister as part of the [. [...]

TUNISIA Politics 04/10/2018

Chahed wary of Marzouk's advances

Prime minister Youssef Chahed has reacted with circumspection to the increasingly clear messages addressed to him by former Nidaa Tounes [...]

TUNISIA Politics 19/07/2018

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 [...]

Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party. © Reuters

TUNISIA 21/06/2018

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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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 [...]

TUNISIA Politics 31/05/2018

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 [...]

PM Youssef Chahed. © REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

TUNISIA Politics 17/05/2018

"BCE" still wants to neutralise Chahed

The sacred month of Ramadan, which starts today, will not be a time of political truce between President Beji Caid [...]

TUNISIA Politics 19/04/2018

Taboubi still wants Chahed's head

Prime minister Youssef Chahed has so far dodged the attacks made on him by the UGTT, but the union's boss [...]

TUNISIA Business 19/04/2018

New UTICA boss Samir Majoul targets the Libyan market

Samir Majoul, who heads employers' body UTICA since January, has [...]

TUNISIA Diplomacy 05/04/2018

Marzouk poses as Bourguiba's French heir

Machrou Tounes party chairman Mohsen Marzouk clearly intends to make [...]

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TUNISIA Business 05/04/2018

Delays are costing the port of Rades $1 billion per year

The lightning strike staged by STAM (Societe Tunisienne d'Acconage et de Manutention) employees in the port of Rades on March 30 and 31 has further complicated the already catastrophic situation in which Tunisia's leading commercial port finds itself. [...]

TUNISIA Business 22/03/2018

MSC and Vectorys battle over Rades logistics zone

Plans to build a logistics activity zone at the port of Rades, which have been bogged down for the last [...]

TUNISIA 18/01/2018

Mohsen Marzouk becomes number one opposition figure

By withdrawing from the Carthage Agreement, the government "road map" [...]

MOROCCO Diplomacy 14/12/2017

Fathallah Sijilmassi to leave the UfM in March

Fathallah Sijilmassi, who has been secretary general of the Union [...]

TUNISIA Business 30/11/2017

Fethi Hachicha to help set up Tunisian-Kuwaiti business council

Businessman Fethi Hachicha served as guide for the Kuwaiti business [...]

TUNISIA Politics 19/10/2017

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. [...]

TUNISIA Business 19/10/2017

Nouira sells another chunk of his textiles empire to Aramys

Former Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie (BIAT) boss Chakib Nouira [...]

TUNISIA 12/10/2017

Ghannouchi enlists Algabid to boost his support in Niger

The postponement of the municipal elections until March 2018 leave [...]

TUNISIA Politics 07/09/2017

Chahed restrained by his own government

Youssef Chahed is not yet ready to fly with his own wings! The September 6 government reshuffle bears witness to [...]

TUNISIA Politics 07/09/2017

Intissar Kheriji guides Ennahda youth

Intissar Kheriji, daughter of Ennahda Islamist party leader Rached Ghannouchi, lives in London where she makes every effort to spread [...]

Youssef Chahed and Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE). © Bloomberg

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TUNISIA Politics 31/08/2017

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. [...]

TUNISIA Politics 27/07/2017

Ketari tackles Al Karama management

Is the easy-going Tunisian Court of Accounts emerging from its slumber? The 30th report transmitted by its president, Nejib Ketari, [...]

TUNISIA Politics 06/07/2017

Slim Riahi brought down by "BCE"

The latest development in prime minister Youssef Chahed's anti-corruption drive, the freezing of the assets of businessman and politician Slim [...]

TUNISIA 22/06/2017

Journalists' terror Tarek Chkioua gets promotion

President Beji Caid Essebsi's appointment of Tarek Chkioua as prosecutor [...]

TUNISIA Politics 08/06/2017

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 [...]

TUNISIA Business 25/05/2017

How Chahed plans to build the Enfidha deep water port

Youssef Chahed’s staff are still looking at ways of financing the Enfidha deep water port. According to our sources, the [...]

TUNISIA 04/05/2017

Said Ferjani stirs up popular revolt for Ennahda

Said Ferjani, a member of Ennahda’s shura council and adviser [...]

TUNISIA 27/04/2017

Mohsen Marzouk tries to catch up with Emmanuel Macron

Mohsen Marzouk, who was President Beji Caid Essebsi’s leading aide [...]

TUNISIA Politics 09/03/2017

Marzouk returns to the "BCE" fold

Mohsen Marzouk, former secretary general of the president’s Nidaa Tounes party, could soon return be back in cahoots with Beji [...]

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TUNISIA Politics 02/03/2017

Chahed's government on brink of financial abyss

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) refusal to disburse a second instalment of a loan, announced on Feb. 27 by finance minister Lamia Zribi, is just one of the financial bombs threatening Youssef Chahed's government.According to our sources, Tunisia's other donors [. [...]

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TUNISIA Politics 23/02/2017

Municipal elections speed up BCE-Ghannouchi split

The approach of the municipal elections, which are due to be held before the end of 2017, will speed up the process of divorce between President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") and Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi, the warring brothers who have [. [...]

TUNISIA Politics 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 [...]

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TUNISIA Politics 14/01/2016

Ennahda and the Essebsis seal an "eternal" alliance

In reshuffling the government on January 6 and then propelling his son Hafedh Caid Essebsi to the leadership of his Nidaa Tounes party on January 10, Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") has completed a process he begun as soon as he [. [...]

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Abdullah Gül renews contact

Former Turkish president Abdullah Gül will be in Tunis next [...]

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A consolation “Nobel” for BCE and Ghannouchi in Washington

Tunisian-style political compromise is madly fashionable at the moment! The [...]

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TUNISIA Politics 05/12/2013

President's staff races for the exits

The atmosphere is bleaker than ever at the Carthage Palace, residence of Tunisia’s president. The possibility that Moncef Marzouki could be sacrificed in an agreement between Ennahda and the opposition Nidaa Tounes party (see opposite) has sent some of the [. [...]

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TUNISIA Politics 10/10/2013

Ghannouchi isolated, Ennahda split in two

If they aren’t likely to resolve Tunisia’s political crisis, talks between Ennahda and the opposition that kicked off on Oct. 4 will certainly increase tension within the Islamist party and cut its president, Rached Ghannouchi, off from the movement’s hardliners. [...]

TUNISIA Business 10/11/2011

Jabali makes eyes at business circles

The secretary-general of Ennahda and probably Tunisia’s next prime minister, Hamadi Jebali, is fully aware he needs to reassure the [...]

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Musical chairs at the top at Poulina Group Holding

UGTT to set up its own political party?

Pro-Chahed alliance starts to show cracks

Chahed wary of Marzouk's advances

Ghannouchi negotiates Chahed's exit

Karoui forgets his cares in the shade of the Eiffel Tower

Chahed offers Brahem's head to Ennahda

Chahed could yet escape the sack

"BCE" still wants to neutralise Chahed

Taboubi still wants Chahed's head

New UTICA boss Samir Majoul targets the Libyan market

Marzouk poses as Bourguiba's French heir

Delays are costing the port of Rades $1 billion per year

MSC and Vectorys battle over Rades logistics zone

Mohsen Marzouk becomes number one opposition figure

Fathallah Sijilmassi to leave the UfM in March

Fethi Hachicha to help set up Tunisian-Kuwaiti business council

Sellami musters pro-Chahed deputies

Nouira sells another chunk of his textiles empire to Aramys

Ghannouchi enlists Algabid to boost his support in Niger

Chahed restrained by his own government

Intissar Kheriji guides Ennahda youth

Youssef Chahed wants to be free of Essebsi before 2019

Ketari tackles Al Karama management

Slim Riahi brought down by "BCE"

Journalists' terror Tarek Chkioua gets promotion

Ennahda exfiltrated from government?

How Chahed plans to build the Enfidha deep water port

Said Ferjani stirs up popular revolt for Ennahda

Mohsen Marzouk tries to catch up with Emmanuel Macron

Marzouk returns to the "BCE" fold

Chahed's government on brink of financial abyss

Municipal elections speed up BCE-Ghannouchi split

Why Chahed was missing on December 17

Ennahda and the Essebsis seal an "eternal" alliance

Abdullah Gül renews contact

A consolation “Nobel” for BCE and Ghannouchi in Washington

President's staff races for the exits

Ghannouchi isolated, Ennahda split in two

Jabali makes eyes at business circles

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