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

Amid fraught talks with the IMF, it is looking increasingly unlikely that the Central Bank of Tunisia will be credited with $2bn from Doha or another billion from Tripoli. [...]

Published on 05/07/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Tunisian interior minister Taoufik Charfeddine.

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

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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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DLA Piper bags contract to lead hunt for Ben Ali assets

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

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No helping hand from Emir Al-Thani ahead of Tunisia's fraught IMF meet

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