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Spotlight | Tunisia
Ennahda the beat pit for pro and anti Essebsi battle

The run-off in the presidential election on Dec. 21 is reviving tension within the Ennahda party whose Shura council is to decide on Dec. 13 whether the party should back Beji Caid Essebsi, Moncef Marzouku or neither of the two. [...]

Published on 11/12/2014 at 23:01 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Yassine Brahim moonlights for Blackfin Capital Partners in Paris

Former minister Yassine Brahim has not lost any time in [...]

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Slim Riahi prepares his homecoming from Paris

Businessman Slim Riahi has not been discouraged by his score [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
Kais Saied bedded in LTCP's Islamo-revolutionary matrix

Kais Saied, who topped the polls in the first round of voting in the presidential elections on September 15, benefited from discreet but decisive support from the Ligue de Tunisie pour la Culture et la Pluralite (LTCP).

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Presidential candidate Kais Saied and his brother Naoufel Saied, Tunisia.

Spotlight | Tunisia
Zbidi spearheads Sahelians' comeback dreams

Abdelkrim Zbidi, who has been put forward despite his own misgivings as a candidate in the September 15 presidential elections, symbolises the hopes of the "Sahelians". This elite, which has its roots in the east coast Sahel region, dreams of [.

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Spotlight | Tunisia
Weakened Beji Caid Essebsi tries to regain control of electoral process

Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE"), who is convalescing after a malaise put him in hospital from June 27 to July 1, is going to have to quickly retake the initiative if he does not want organisation of the end-of-year parliamentary and [.

Subscribers only Politics 04.07.2019

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is pictured surrounded by medical staff members in Tunis.

Tunisia
Go Malta affair to be examined by parliament

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

Free access Business 24.01.2019

Spotlight | Tunisia
Slim Riahi tries to bring down Youssef Chahed from Paris

From his place of voluntary exile in Paris, Slim Riahi, the new secretary general of presidential party Nidaa Tounes, is preparing for the next round in his battle with prime minister Youssef Chahed. Slim Riahi is preparing his onslaught with [.

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Tunisia
"BCE" considers replacing Chahed with Mondher Zenaidi

Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") recently met Mondher Zenaidi to talk [...]

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Tunisia
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. [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
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.

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Youssef Chahed and Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE).

Spotlight | Tunisia
"BCE" struggles to get a grip on Tataouine revolt

The protests sweeping across the Tataouine region are not only the result of the widespread unemployment afflicting southern Tunisia. President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") is also paying for his erratic management of the most serious social crisis in the country [.

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Spotlight | Tunisia
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 [.

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Tunisia
Eltaief is reconciled with Essebsi Jr

Kamel Eltaief, former eminence grise of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, has begun mending his relations with Hafedh Caid Essebsi (HCE), [...]

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Tunisia
Abdelfattah Mourou returns to the US

Assembly of the Representatives of the People vice president Abdelfattah [...]

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Tunisia
Baccouche lobbying for foreign minister post

With jobs up for grabs in the new Tunisian government, [...]

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Tunisia
Why Essebsi chose Habib Essid

It was precisely because he’s a political lightweight that the outsider Habib Essid was chosen by Tunisia’s newly-elected president, Beji [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
Ben Jaafar, Jomaa and Marzouki go job hunting

With Tunisia’s presidential election set for Dec. 21, the highest authorities in the land are seeking new jobs for themselves or their advisers. Without a function since the constituent Parliament he presided made way an Assemblee des Representants du Peuple [.

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Tunisia
Essebsi-Ghannouchi talks still on

Although Beji Caid Essebsi publicly dismissed any idea of an electoral alliance between his Nidaa Tounes party and Ennahda on [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
New tango in the offing for Ghannouchi & Essebsi

Beaten by the Nidaa Tounes party in Tunisia’s Oct. 26 general election, the Islamist Ennahda party still has cards to play in the presidential ballot at the end of November. The movement’s secretary-general, Rached Ghannouchi, could even emerge as a [.

Subscribers only Politics 06.11.2014

Tunisia
Essebsi celebrates, Eltaief doesn’t

While the Tunisian legislative election on Oct. 26 didn’t turn out well for the Ennahda party it was a disaster [...]

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Spotlight | Tunisia
Last-minute rally in Essebsi’s favour

Engaged in highly dispersed fashion in the October-November elections, members of the "Destourian" camp have thrown their lot in with Beji Caid Essebsi at the last moment in order to block the Islamic Ennahda movement.

Subscribers only Politics 09.10.2014

Spotlight | Tunisia
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.

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2013

Spotlight | Tunisia
Why Ghannouchi & Essebsi are bedfellows

The many one-on-one meetings between Beji Caid Essebsi and Rached Ghannouchi since they met up in Paris on Aug. 15 aimed only to finding a modus vivendi between their respective Nidaa Tounes and Ennahda parties.

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2013

Tunisia
Kamel Nabli strikes out on his own

Governor of the Banque Centrale de Tunisie (BCT) until he was fired by the ruling coalition after an epic political [...]

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Kais Saied bedded in LTCP's Islamo-revolutionary matrix

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Zbidi spearheads Sahelians' comeback dreams

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Weakened Beji Caid Essebsi tries to regain control of electoral process

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Go Malta affair to be examined by parliament

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Slim Riahi tries to bring down Youssef Chahed from Paris

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"BCE" considers replacing Chahed with Mondher Zenaidi

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Sellami musters pro-Chahed deputies

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Youssef Chahed wants to be free of Essebsi before 2019

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"BCE" struggles to get a grip on Tataouine revolt

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Municipal elections speed up BCE-Ghannouchi split

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Eltaief is reconciled with Essebsi Jr

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Abdelfattah Mourou returns to the US

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Baccouche lobbying for foreign minister post

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Ben Jaafar, Jomaa and Marzouki go job hunting

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Essebsi-Ghannouchi talks still on

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Essebsi celebrates, Eltaief doesn’t

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Last-minute rally in Essebsi’s favour

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Ghannouchi isolated, Ennahda split in two

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Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Spotlight | Tunisia
Ennahda the beat pit for pro and anti Essebsi battle

Tunisia
Yassine Brahim moonlights for Blackfin Capital Partners in Paris

Tunisia
Slim Riahi prepares his homecoming from Paris

Spotlight | Tunisia
Kais Saied bedded in LTCP's Islamo-revolutionary matrix

Spotlight | Tunisia
Zbidi spearheads Sahelians' comeback dreams

Spotlight | Tunisia
Weakened Beji Caid Essebsi tries to regain control of electoral process

Tunisia
Go Malta affair to be examined by parliament

Spotlight | Tunisia
Slim Riahi tries to bring down Youssef Chahed from Paris

Tunisia
"BCE" considers replacing Chahed with Mondher Zenaidi

Tunisia
Sellami musters pro-Chahed deputies

Spotlight | Tunisia
Youssef Chahed wants to be free of Essebsi before 2019

Spotlight | Tunisia
"BCE" struggles to get a grip on Tataouine revolt

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Municipal elections speed up BCE-Ghannouchi split

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Eltaief is reconciled with Essebsi Jr

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Abdelfattah Mourou returns to the US

Tunisia
Baccouche lobbying for foreign minister post

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Ben Jaafar, Jomaa and Marzouki go job hunting

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Essebsi-Ghannouchi talks still on

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New tango in the offing for Ghannouchi & Essebsi

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Essebsi celebrates, Eltaief doesn’t

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Last-minute rally in Essebsi’s favour

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Ghannouchi isolated, Ennahda split in two

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