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Tunisia
DLA Piper bags contract to lead hunt for Ben Ali assets

Tunisia's cash-strapped government has tasked DLA Piper law firm with the global coordination of procedures to recover the ill-gotten assets of ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's family. [...]

Published on 25/05/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Even in the absence of a government, GIZ launches a public service reform programme

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

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Tunisian President Kais Saied addresses the nation, 25 July 2021.

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Up in smoke: $3bn in aid from Qatar and Libya

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Tunisian PM returns from Tripoli talks almost empty-handed

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Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba (r) received his Tunisian counterpart Hichem Mechichi in Tripoli on 22 May.

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Washington gives Borj Erroumi prison a radical makeover

In the hope of curbing the radicalisation of the most dangerous prisoners, the US State Department is to modernise the Borj Erroumi penitentiary where the Ben Ali regime kept its political opponents under lock and key.

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No solution for budget crisis as Mechichi is cold-shouldered by IMF and Ghannouchi by Doha

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Inner circles | Tunisia
Religious conservative Ghannouchi dominates Tunisian parliament

Rached Ghannouchi, who was elected president of the Tunisian parliament in November 2019, has positioned his pawns in various institutions and surrounded himself with a small circle of advisors.

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Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of the Assembly of People's Representatives (ARP) since 2019.

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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.

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Tunisia Tunisian PM returns from Tripoli talks almost empty-handed

Tunisia Washington gives Borj Erroumi prison a radical makeover

Tunisia No solution for budget crisis as Mechichi is cold-shouldered by IMF and Ghannouchi by Doha

Inner circles | Tunisia Religious conservative Ghannouchi dominates Tunisian parliament

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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

Tunisia
DLA Piper bags contract to lead hunt for Ben Ali assets

Tunisia
Radès port upgrade to finally go ahead?

Tunisia
Even in the absence of a government, GIZ launches a public service reform programme

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

Tunisia
Up in smoke: $3bn in aid from Qatar and Libya

Tunisia
Tunisian PM returns from Tripoli talks almost empty-handed

Tunisia
Washington gives Borj Erroumi prison a radical makeover

Tunisia
No solution for budget crisis as Mechichi is cold-shouldered by IMF and Ghannouchi by Doha

Inner circles | Tunisia
Religious conservative Ghannouchi dominates Tunisian parliament

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