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Tunisia
Desperate Tunisair reopens negotiations on A320s contract with Airbus... again

An order signed in 2016 for five Airbus A320 aircraft has turned into a financial burden for national airline Tunisair after it lost the services of SMBC Aviation Capital, the company which had offered to finance the acquisition. [...]

Published on 17/03/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Tunisia
Despite US help, Moez Chakchouk all at sea over ports of Enfidha and Radès

The transport minister Moez Chakchouk is struggling to make progress on the Enfidha deepwater port project, which has been in the pipeline for nearly two decades now. And the American donation of $324m for expanding the port of Radès is conditional on its privatisation, which is unacceptable to the UGTT union.

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Tunisian transport minister Moez Chakchouk.

DRC
Damning audit report casts doubt on Congo Airways' $272m fleet expansion

Allegations of embezzlement and over-invoicing at Congo Airways could not have come at a worse time for the national carrier, which is hoping to finalise the $272m purchase of four new airliners.

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Libya, Tunisia
Tunisair's Libya link struggles under fallout from Covid and insurance premiums

The re-opening of the Tunisia-Libya air link first scheduled for November 2020 and then on 27 April, has been pushed back once again.

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Tunisia
TAV Airports escapes financial collapse but heads into political turmoil

Turkey's TAV Airports, which has the operating concession for the Enfidha and Monastir airports, has had several hundred million euros worth of debt cancelled by international institutions and Tunisia but now faces scrutiny by Tunisian deputies.

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Enfidha airport seen from the sky, in 2012.

Tunisia
Ennahda's Abdallah Khalfaoui threatens to upstage Ghannouchi on Turkish relations

The former member of Ennahda's political bureau, Abdallah Khalfaoui, is emerging still further from the shadow of the party leader, Rached Ghannouchi, and is now competing with him on the terrain of relations with Turkey, a longstanding ally of the Islamist party.

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Morocco
Moulay Rachid casts himself as aviation industry's business angel following Boeing deal

Prince Moulay Rachid, the brother of Mohammed VI, is looking to open up his MAIC fund, set up to finance the creation TDM Aerospace, to Moroccan institutional investors with a view to expanding subcontracting opportunities with Boeing and Airbus.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 18.03.2021

Morocco
Air Arabia woes push Holmarcom to break into aircraft maintenance

Mohamed Hassan Bensalah's powerful holding company has approached Delta Aerospace, run by retired general Mohamed Oujamaâ, to make its concession at Casablanca airport more profitable.

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Madagascar
Rajoelina's advisor misses out on top job at Air Mad

Now that Madagascar's national social insurance fund has taken over Air Austral's stake in Air Madagascar, the national airline is preparing to appoint a new chief executive to bolster its freight activities and establish a partnership with Ethiopian Airlines.

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Tunisia
Tunisair will not get its five Airbuses in 2019

Tunisair will have to be patient as it waits to [...]

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DRC Damning audit report casts doubt on Congo Airways' $272m fleet expansion

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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

Tunisia
Desperate Tunisair reopens negotiations on A320s contract with Airbus... again

Tunisia
Despite US help, Moez Chakchouk all at sea over ports of Enfidha and Radès

DRC
Damning audit report casts doubt on Congo Airways' $272m fleet expansion

Libya, Tunisia
Tunisair's Libya link struggles under fallout from Covid and insurance premiums

Tunisia
TAV Airports escapes financial collapse but heads into political turmoil

Tunisia
Ennahda's Abdallah Khalfaoui threatens to upstage Ghannouchi on Turkish relations

Morocco
Moulay Rachid casts himself as aviation industry's business angel following Boeing deal

Morocco
Air Arabia woes push Holmarcom to break into aircraft maintenance

Madagascar
Rajoelina's advisor misses out on top job at Air Mad

Tunisia
Tunisair will not get its five Airbuses in 2019