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North Africa
Moncef Sassi to keep an eye on foreign affairs for Kais Saied

By appointing Moncef Sassi to the private office of foreign minister Nabil Ammar, the Tunisian leader intends to keep closer tabs on a ministry from which he has for a long time kept his distance. [...]

Published on 20/07/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Adel Arbi
Beji Caid Essebsi
Farhat Khelif
Karim Jamoussi
Khaled Yahyaoui
Moncef Sassi
Mustapha Ferjani
Nabil Ammar
Radhia Manai
Sahbi Khalfallah
Taoufik Charfeddine
Wassef Chiha

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Foreign Minister Ammar plays president's most fervent supporter

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The team helping Meloni maintain good relations with Saied

Behind Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, members of parliament and diplomats are working to keep relations with Tunisia sweet as a means of combating clandestine migration towards the Italian coast.

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Tunisia's President Kais Saied shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Tunis, Tunisia on 11 June 2023.

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Saied blindsided by Taoufik Charfeddine resignation

The interior minister's public announcement that he was stepping down was not cleared by the Tunisian president, who had not yet made up his mind about his successor.

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The former Tunisian Minister of the Interior Taoufik Charfeddine.

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President Saied gives interior minister Charfeddine the cold shoulder

Why is Taoufik Charfeddine not involved in the current wave of arrests of the Tunisian president's opponents? The interior minister has been kept to one side since an alleged plot affair in November, and his influence in the government has begun to wane.

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Kais Saied fills his regime's top posts with military men

The Tunisian leader is increasingly seen flanked by military commanders and has placed loyalist generals and colonels in government ministries and in his own private office. The growing role of the military, which in Tunisia has traditionally been kept well away from politics, is causing growing concern.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 17.02.2023

President Kais Saied with members of the special unit of the Tunisian National Guard, in Bir Bou Rekba (Nabeul state), in August 2021.

Tunisia
Japan-Africa summit has an organising committee, but still no venue

President Kaïs Saïed has issued the decrees for the organisation of the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). However, no venue has yet been assigned to host the event, which is scheduled for August in Tunis.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 09.02.2022

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Beji Caid Essebsi
Farhat Khelif
Karim Jamoussi
Khaled Yahyaoui
Moncef Sassi
Mustapha Ferjani
Nabil Ammar
Radhia Manai
Sahbi Khalfallah
Taoufik Charfeddine
Wassef Chiha

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Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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

North Africa
Moncef Sassi to keep an eye on foreign affairs for Kais Saied

Tunisia
Colonel Major Moncef Sassi, a rising foreign ministry star

Tunisia
How Saied has shaken up Tunisia diplomatic corps

Tunisia
Foreign Minister Ammar plays president's most fervent supporter

Tunisia
The team helping Meloni maintain good relations with Saied

Tunisia
Saied blindsided by Taoufik Charfeddine resignation

Tunisia
President Saied gives interior minister Charfeddine the cold shoulder

Inner circles | Tunisia
Kais Saied fills his regime's top posts with military men

Tunisia
Japan-Africa summit has an organising committee, but still no venue