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Inner circles | Tunisia
Mongi Marzouk brings in his liegemen at the Ministry of Energy and STEG

Mongi Marzouk was appointed Minister of Energy in February. © DR

Following his appointment in February, Minister of Energy Mongi Marzouk is building around himself a highly political support team to ensure he has maximum control of the energy sector, particularly key national electricity provider STEG [...]

Published on 22.04.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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