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Spotlight TUNISIA Issue dated 30/04/2015

Prime minister Essid exhausted and fed up

Three months after his appointment as prime minister, Habib Essid appears to be running out of steam. Caught between activist presidential advisers on one side and a hopelessly divided government coalition on the other, he is threatening to stand down. [...] (592 words)

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