First Independent Mena Newspaper
The criminal court of the first instant tribunal of Tunis has published a list of 19 politicians including Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of the country’s suspended legislature, former Premier minister Youssef Chahed and Nabil Karoui, the leader of the second largest party in the parliament. All of them accused of electoral crimes including political advertising, illegal […]
Tunisia’s Premier Friday submitted his candidacy to run for September advanced presidential elections for Tahya Tounes. The newly created Tahya Tounes party, a breakaway branch of the ruling Nidaa Tounes, announced last week it would choose Youssef Chahed as its candidate for the Presidential elections. However, he waited until the last day of the deadline, […]
Tunisian Prime Minister, Youssef Chahed on Wednesday, unveiled the lineup of a new government of national unity. The government reshuffle, the 10th since 14 January 2011, comes after several weeks of consultations with political parties and organizations on the distribution of portfolios. The key portfolios affected by the reshuffle are those of Finance, Interior and […]
Head of the Moroccan Government Saad Eddine El Othmani and his Tunisian peer Youssef Chahed chaired on June 19 in Rabat the signing ceremony of 13 cooperation agreements in fields relating to training and economy. The agreements were signed following the 19th High Joint Moroccan-Tunisian committee, which convened following talks between El Othmani and Chahed […]
Head of the Tunisian government, Youssef Chahed, is paying on June 18-19 an official visit to Morocco where he will attend the 19th session of the Moroccan-Tunisian High Joint Committee. Leading a delegation comprising several Tunisian cabinet members, Chahed will hold talk with his Moroccan counterpart Saad Eddine El Othmani on a set of issues […]
The leader of MPT (Machrou3 Pour la Tunisie) Mohsen Marzouk Tuesday called for the emergence of a new cabinet as he argued on his facebook account that the government of Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has failed in all aspects. “What we call «government of national unity» headed by Youssef Chahed is over on all plans, […]
President Trump’s foreign policy adviser Walid Phares has warned against attempts by Tunisian Islamists and their Tripoli-based counterparts to bring down President Caid Essebsi’s democratically elected regime. The US official and Trump’s right-hand man for the Middle East indicated on his facebook page that Washington received intelligence that Tunisian Islamists are colliding with their Libyan […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged visiting Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to speed up the process of repatriating the Tunisians who failed to obtain the status of refugee in Germany after a rejected Tunisian awaiting deportation killed 12 people at a Berlin market in December. Weakened by her open-door migrant policy, Merkel met Chahed in […]
Visiting Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed Monday flatly rejected German accusations that Tunisia bears responsibility for the December carnage in which 12 people lost their lives after Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri ploughed a lorry through a Christmas market in capital Berlin. Germany accuses Tunisian authorities for failure to cooperate with German authorities over the […]
Prime Minister Youssef Chahed Saturday inspected six new US-made helicopters delivered to Tunisia to further the army’s capacity to fight terrorism and secure border with neighboring Libya. The warships, OH-58D Kiowa type, are a first batch of 24 aircrafts deal signed with the US military cooperation agency (DSCA) in May last year. The deal is […]