Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed dismissed his energy minister Khalid Kaddour who is facing a corruption probe, the Premier’s office said. Kaddour was dismissed less than a year after his appointment in September 2017 in a move that will trigger other sackings. Kaddour will stand before justice in November over allegations of “administrative and financial […]
Global food crisis is one of Russia’s “weapons of war“, said French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Cameroon on Tuesday (26 July), dismissing suggestions Western sanctions were to blame. It’s Macron’s first foreign trip since his re-election as he seeks to reset France’s post-colonial relationship with the continent. The French leader specifically denounced […]
Tunisia has rejected as “inaccurate” the recent press reports indicating that the terrorist cell of the Sahel was about to perpetrate a large-scale operation in the country. The Interior Ministry’s press officer Walid Louguini said the press reports are “not accurate” but did not denied them outright. He said the public will be informed “at […]
