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Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali

Tunisia
Former Marzouki security chief returns to the fore

Taoufik Gasmi has returned to the spotlight after eight years away as the new head of security for the ministry of foreign affairs as of 1 August.

Subscribers only Defence 27.08.2024

Spotlight | Tunisia
Khaled Yahyaoui, the Carthage Palace security chief who makes and breaks ministerial careers

Appointed as the head of state's director general of security days after Kaïs Saïed came to power in 2019, Khaled Yahyaoui enjoys the president's unparalleled confidence and his prerogatives now go well beyond his official duties.

Subscribers only Politics 04.06.2024

Khaled Yahyaoui was awarded an Order of the Republic by Kaïs Saïed on 18 April 2021.

Tunisia
Paris challenges Berlin's leadership on solar energy market

Germany has been investing in solar energy in Tunisia for over a decade, but France's EDF group has now set up its own subsidiary there.

Subscribers only Energy 20.03.2024

Tunisia
Ex-trade minister, Mondher Zenaidi seeks to shut down fresh legal troubles

Mondher Zenaidi, who is likely to run for the presidency this year, is once again facing legal wrangles over the controversial 2007 privatisation of Tunisia's state-owned car retailer Ennakl. His lawyers have contested the reopening of the investigation.

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2024

Tunisia
Sama Dubai calls time on massive real estate project

The new Porte de la Méditerranée district that the Emirati property developer was meant to work on will never see the light of day. The project has been a headache for successive administrations since 2007.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 04.03.2024

Tunisia
Mondher Zenaidi ties up loose ends ahead of presidential bid

The ex-trade minister is eager to get his house in order before running for the highest office. He recently made sure that there were no ongoing criminal investigations into his affairs.

Subscribers only Politics 01.03.2024

Former Tunisian trade minister Mondher Zenaidi, in 2014.

Tunisia
Judicial police target Tunisia's presidential candidates

The political and economic scene in Tunis is abuzz with talk of a leaked list of the people judicial authorities are investigating. Several of Kaïs Saïed's potential rivals in this year's presidential elections are being targeted.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2024

Tunisia
Ex-Al Karama boss Abdelkader Zgolli detained

Early this month, a warrant was issued to detain Abdelkader Zgolli, who was managing director of Al Karama Holding from 2015 to 2017.

Subscribers only Business 21.12.2023

Tunisia
Marouane Mabrouk's firms put into administration

With several Mabrouk group companies embroiled in disputes with the state, the family is worried about their financial future.

Subscribers only Business 15.12.2023

Tunisia
Boss of the bosses Samir Majoul brings his succession at UTICA to a standstill

Confident in the knowledge that he has the head of state's support, Samir Majoul, chairman of national employers' body UTICA, is not in a hurry to step down. He keeps delaying the holding of a conference to choose his successor.

Subscribers only Politics 12.12.2023

Samir Majoul, then vice-chair of UTICA, at the International Human Rights Federation headquarters in Paris on 15 October 2015.

Spotlight | Tunisia
Kais Saied's judicial offensive yields meagre results

The Tunisian president, who has instigated a wave of judicial investigations since his power grab in July 2021, is exasperated behind the scenes at the poor returns they have produced.

Subscribers only Politics 05.12.2023

Tunisian President Kais Saied arrives for the closing session of the New Global Financial Pact Summit, on June 23, 2023 in Paris.

Tunisia
Court revisits banking practices of Ben Ali era

This week a Tunisian court is to hear from two former managers of the country's central bank about banking irregularities that favoured the former president's family.

Subscribers only Politics 10.11.2023

A man walks out of the Central Bank in Tunis, Tunisia, on 27 April 2016.

Tunisia
The fall of Najoua Khraief, queen bee of the economy

Economic affairs director Najoua Khraief was indispensable on many fronts. She had remained in office through the ups and downs of Tunisian politics... until now.

Subscribers only Politics, Business 08.11.2023

Tunisia
Taxman looks into affairs of nightlife king Patrick Sebag

The Tunisian businessman is being investigated by the finance ministry over his management of a popular nightlife hub and suspicions that he has been paying less VAT on alcoholic drinks than required by law.

Subscribers only Business 03.11.2023

Spotlight | Tunisia
Kais Saied steps up pressure on wealthy in desperate search for fresh funds

The National Commission for Penal Conciliation, which was set up by the president to recover state funds misappropriated during the Ben Ali era, has failed to meet the objectives he set it. He has therefore decided to step up the pressure on the wealthy.

Subscribers only Politics, Business 12.10.2023

Tunisia
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.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 14.06.2023

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

Tunisia
Kais Saied mulls reviving information ministry

As media outlets critical of his administration come under increasing pressure, the Tunisian president is considering setting up a dedicated government department, such as existed during the Ben Ali era.

Subscribers only Politics 24.04.2023

Tunisian President Kaïs Saied visiting the headquarters of Snipe-La Presse on 11 March 2023.

Tunisia
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.

Subscribers only Politics 24.03.2023

The former Tunisian Minister of the Interior Taoufik Charfeddine.

Inner circles | Tunisia
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
How a Frenchman came to be suspected of plotting against the Tunisian state

Jean-Pierre M., a former local elected official in the south of France, was surprised to see his name appear on a leaked Tunisian court document that outlined alleged plotting against the state. He denies any attempt to intervene in the country's politics.

Subscribers only Politics 13.01.2023

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Former Marzouki security chief returns to the fore

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Paris challenges Berlin's leadership on solar energy market

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Ex-trade minister, Mondher Zenaidi seeks to shut down fresh legal troubles

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Sama Dubai calls time on massive real estate project

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Mondher Zenaidi ties up loose ends ahead of presidential bid

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Judicial police target Tunisia's presidential candidates

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Ex-Al Karama boss Abdelkader Zgolli detained

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Marouane Mabrouk's firms put into administration

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Boss of the bosses Samir Majoul brings his succession at UTICA to a standstill

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Kais Saied's judicial offensive yields meagre results

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Court revisits banking practices of Ben Ali era

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The fall of Najoua Khraief, queen bee of the economy

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Taxman looks into affairs of nightlife king Patrick Sebag

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Kais Saied steps up pressure on wealthy in desperate search for fresh funds

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Tunisia Marouane Mabrouk's firms put into administration

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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
Former Marzouki security chief returns to the fore

Spotlight | Tunisia
Khaled Yahyaoui, the Carthage Palace security chief who makes and breaks ministerial careers

Tunisia
Paris challenges Berlin's leadership on solar energy market

Tunisia
Ex-trade minister, Mondher Zenaidi seeks to shut down fresh legal troubles

Tunisia
Sama Dubai calls time on massive real estate project

Tunisia
Mondher Zenaidi ties up loose ends ahead of presidential bid

Tunisia
Judicial police target Tunisia's presidential candidates

Tunisia
Ex-Al Karama boss Abdelkader Zgolli detained

Tunisia
Marouane Mabrouk's firms put into administration

Tunisia
Boss of the bosses Samir Majoul brings his succession at UTICA to a standstill

Spotlight | Tunisia
Kais Saied's judicial offensive yields meagre results

Tunisia
Court revisits banking practices of Ben Ali era

Tunisia
The fall of Najoua Khraief, queen bee of the economy

Tunisia
Taxman looks into affairs of nightlife king Patrick Sebag

Spotlight | Tunisia
Kais Saied steps up pressure on wealthy in desperate search for fresh funds

Tunisia
The team helping Meloni maintain good relations with Saied

Tunisia
Kais Saied mulls reviving information ministry

Tunisia
Saied blindsided by Taoufik Charfeddine resignation

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

Tunisia
How a Frenchman came to be suspected of plotting against the Tunisian state