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Tunisia’s Prime Minister designate Elyes Fakhfakh on Wednesday unveiled his new coalition government after reaching an agreement with Ennahda moderate Islamist Party. Fakhfakh said the new cabinet team, composed of 30 ministers and 2 secretaries of state, is the result of consensus between parties and parliamentary blocs involved in the consultations. The new cabinet represents […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied said the country faces risk of early parliamentary elections if the line-up proposed by designate Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh fails to win parliamentary majority. Fakhfakh’s line-up was rejected by the biggest parties in the country, including Ennahda, an islamist party with the largest parliamentary representation. “Ennahdha’s decision will put the country […]
The Ennahda movement on Saturday afternoon announced their decision to pull out of the Fakhfakh government formation and not to give it confidence in parliament. Ennahda Saturday refused to back Fakhfaskh’s proposed government on the grounds that it excludes parliament second largest party, Heart of Tunisia of former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui. Prime Minister-designate […]
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia were in a long list of countries the CIA spied on using encryption company for 50 years, in a case that came to be known as the century’s intelligence coup, the Washington Post reported. Over half a century, from the 1970s on, governments and their intelligence security agencies across the globe […]
The second party in the Tunisian parliament, Heart of Tunisia, will not be part of Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh’s expected cabinet despite lobbies by various other parties including Ennahdah movement. Nominal Prime Minister Fakhfah is expected per the constitution to provide President Kais Saied the list of his cabinet, on Friday. Fathi Ayadi, a prominent […]
Tunisian Minister of Tourism René Trabelsi has strongly denounced comments made by a French-Jewish MP who called for boycotting Tourism in Tunisia. The French lawmaker, Meyer Habib, from the Union of Democrats and Independents slammed, in a Facebook post, Tunisian President Kais Saied, who reportedly ordered the ministry of sports to launch a probe into […]
The African Export–Import Bank, Afreximbank, will lend Tunisia $1.3 billion to support public and private enterprises as well as public and private banks. Afreximbank director of trade financing Aymen El-Zoghbi said $500 million will be allocated to boost state-run and private companies. The remaining $800 million will be earmarked for supporting banks in private and […]
Tunisian parliament leading party Ennhadha has refused to sign the contract memorandum submitted by Prime Minister designate to parties taking part in consultations on the next government’s program. Ennahda blames nominal PM Elyes Fakhfakh for not heeding the moderate Islamist movement’s call for a unity government. While the former finance minister refuses to integrate […]
Algeria Sunday pledged to inject $150 million into the Tunisian Central Bank, BCT, in support to its neighbor, which has been struggling financially and economically since the 2011 revolution. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune made pledge during a meeting with Tunisian leader Kais Saied who was on his maiden international visit to Algeria. “Algeria is poised to […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has extended for three months the state of emergency in place since November 2015 following a series of deadly attacks that killed over 70 people, mostly foreign tourists. The decision according to the office of the president was taken following consultation with caretaker Prime Minister Youssef Chahed and the Speaker of […]