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Rival Saied allies settle scores amid anti-Ennahda purge at interior ministry

Interior minister Taoufik Charfeddine, who has been told to track down senior security officials close to the Islamist Ennahda party, has put several people close to Khaled Yahyaoui, President Kais Saied's security chief, into early retirement. [...] (705 words)

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Politics

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TUNISIA
BAT
Bilel Manai
Chokri Riahi
DGFE
DGFP
Ennahda
Hichem Mechichi
Imed Zoghlami
Kaïs Saïed
Khaled Yahyaoui
Lazhar Loungou
Leïla Trabelsi
Lotfi Sghaier
Mohamed Ali Aroui
Mohamed Ali Ben Khaled
Mokhtar Hammami
Nadia Akacha
Najet Jaouadi
Najla Bouden
National Guard
Samir Tarhouni
Taoufik Charfeddine
Wahid Toujani
Zine El AbidineBen Ali

Kais Saied reinforces his team of securocrat advisers with Dhayghem Ben Hassine

A new security figure has joined the team in Kais Saied's cabinet, which has shrunk drastically in recent months. [...]

TUNISIA Politics 01/02/2022

Is the Ministry of Justice Saïed's next target?

Several members of the government have already announced their intention to leave and Kaïs Saïed will soon decide who to appoint to the ministries of justice and interior, which are key positions to achieve his political goals. [...]

TUNISIA Politics 28/01/2022

How Charfeddine managed to get rid of Nadia Akacha

With the departure of Nadia Akacha, the quarrel between two factions has ended in victory for Minister of the Interior Taoufik Charfeddine. For months, he has been trying to remove his rivals. [...]

Tunisian interior minister Taoufik Charfeddine. © Mohamed Messara/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

TUNISIA Politics 27/01/2022

Ructions at Carthage Palace as president's loyal chief of staff Nadia Akacha resigns

The departure of Kais Saied's chief of staff is the upshot of a series of political disagreements as well as internal pressure that had been building since December and culminated in a blazing row with Saied last Saturday. [...]

The former chief of staff of the Tunisian President, Nadia Akacha. © @NadiaAkacha.officielle/Facebook

TUNISIA Diplomacy 14/01/2022

European Parliament may harden stance towards Kais Saied

The European Parliament's delegation for relations with North Africa and its human rights subcommittee will convene in late January to discuss the case of Tunisia, and MEPs may subsequently adopt a resolution denouncing the constitutional abuses perpetrated by Kais Saied. [...]

ALGERIA TUNISIA Politics 20/12/2021

Nadia Akacha takes charge of diplomacy and protocol for Tebboune's visit

Kaïs Saïed's chief of staff was at the centre of the Algerian president's two-day visit to Tunis. In terms of the programme, protocol and diplomacy Nadia Akacha was omnipresent. [...]

Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed's chief of staff Nadia Akacha. © International University of Tunis

TUNISIA Diplomacy 08/12/2021

Kaïs Saïed to keep a more watchful eye on Tunisians in France

Appointed as consul in Paris by President Saïed, the former Minister of the Interior Ridha Gharsallaoui will increase the surveillance of the Tunisian diaspora in France. A security attaché, Maher Addala, had already started work on this at the beginning of the summer, taking over from Lazhar Loungou. [...]

Former Tunisian Interior Minister Ridha Gharsallaoui. © Presidency of Tunisia handout/EPA/MaxPPP

TUNISIA Diplomacy 17/11/2021

Kais Saied's diplomatic adviser, Walid Hajjem, losing influence

Following the departure of two diplomatic advisers from the presidential cabinet, Walid Hajjem, previously a familiar presence at meetings, is making fewer appearances. [...]

TUNISIA Diplomacy 04/11/2021

Europe adviser Mustapha Nebli quits presidential palace

The president's diplomatic team is shrinking. His adviser on European affairs, Mustapha Nebli, and his colleague in charge of international cooperation, Sarra Maaouia, have resigned from the presidential palace. This comes at a time when relations with the European Union are rapidly deteriorating. [...]

Inner circles

TUNISIA Politics 15/10/2021

Kais Saied rules supreme but is more isolated than ever

While the head of state may have effectively placed himself at the centre of power on 25 July when he rejected the parliamentary system born from the 2011 revolution, his entourage of advisers and friends at Carthage Palace has since become a hotbed of clan rivalries. [...]

TUNISIA Politics 29/09/2021

MPs critical of Kais Saied take flight

While parliamentary activities are suspended, some Tunisian MPs have been able to travel abroad in recent days. Others seem to have left the country before the president's 25 July power grab. [...]

TUNISIA Defence Business 17/09/2021

Washington maintains aid programs and security cooperation with Kais Saied

Although the Biden administration called on the Tunisian president to rapidly restore the country's democratic institutions in mid-August, it has continued to cooperate with Tunis on several fronts, not least via its MCC and USAID development agencies. [...]

TUNISIA Politics 29/07/2021

Saied plays army spies and 'ill-gotten gains' as trump cards

First he suspended parliament and sacked the prime minister. Now the president plans to turn up the heat on his political enemies by co-opting military intelligence agents in a renewed bid to recover embezzled billions. [...]

Tunisian President Kais Saied addresses the nation, 25 July 2021. © Tunisian President's Office/Reuters TV

TUNISIA Politics 28/01/2021

Kais Saied's lonely battle to recover Ben Ali clan's ill-gotten gains

With the legal deadlines to recover the hundreds of millions of euros misappropriated by the clan of the ex-president about to expire, President Kais Saied is being hindered by government departments and the speaker of parliament, the Islamist Rached Ghannouchi. [...]

Tunisian President Kais Saied. © Fethi Belaid/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

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Bilel Manai
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Hichem Mechichi
Imed Zoghlami
Kaïs Saïed
Khaled Yahyaoui
Lazhar Loungou
Leïla Trabelsi
Lotfi Sghaier
Mohamed Ali Aroui
Mohamed Ali Ben Khaled
Mokhtar Hammami
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Najet Jaouadi
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Taoufik Charfeddine
Wahid Toujani
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