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Qatar, Tunisia
No helping hand from Emir Al-Thani ahead of Tunisia's fraught IMF meet

Finance minister Ali Kooli's attempt to negotiate a new loan from the Qatar National Bank, with the backing of the Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi, floundered when Doha set the interest rate at 5.5%. [...]

Published on 22/04/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Ali Kooli
Anantara
Aziz Miled
Banque centrale de Tunisie
Belhassen Trabelsi
Carthage Cement
Covid-19
Ennahda
Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
Hichem Mechichi
International Monetary Fund
Kais Saied
Leila Ben Ali
Majda Tunisia
Printemps
Qatar Investment Authority
Qatar National Bank
Qatari Diar
Rached Ghannouchi
Rafik Abdessalem
Sakher el-Materi
Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani
Victor Nazim Reda Agha
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
Zitouna
Zitouna Takaful

Tunisia
Gulf states set conditions for Kais Saied

For the past five years, the Tunisian president has repeatedly sought financial help from Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. But next time round he can expect any help for Tunis to come with more strings attached.

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Tunisian president Kais Saied, during a stay in Kuwait, on 17 December 2023.

Tunisia
Saied's ex-chief of staff Nadia Akacha poised to discover outcome of cases against her

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The former director of cabinet of the Tunisian President, Nadia Akacha.

Tunisia
Troubled in Tunis, Ennahda revives its London base

The Islamic democratic party has been trying to distance itself from a lobbying contract signed in London with US giant BCW that has led to a judicial inquiry in Tunisia. Yet all signs seem to indicate the party was directly involved.

Subscribers only Politics 08.09.2021

Tunisia
Tunis grounds plan to buy second-hand Kuwaiti F-18s

Tunisian air force chief Mohamed Hajjem, who urgently needs to replace his fighter jets, has finally ditched plans to purchase the F-18s that Kuwait is preparing to withdraw from service.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 06.09.2021

Algeria, Tunisia
Algerian riots starve Tunisian hospitals of oxygen

Unrest in the northern Algerian city of Laghouat, where Calgaz has its oxygen plant, have aggravated shortages in Tunisia's hospitals. And with Algerian supplies likely to dry up, Tunisia is turning to France for help.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 27.07.2021

Tunisia
Up in smoke: $3bn in aid from Qatar and Libya

Amid fraught talks with the IMF, it is looking increasingly unlikely that the Central Bank of Tunisia will be credited with $2bn from Doha or another billion from Tripoli.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 05.07.2021

Tunisia
No solution for budget crisis as Mechichi is cold-shouldered by IMF and Ghannouchi by Doha

Having failed to present a structural reform plan to the International Monetary Fund, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi is unlikely to get any new budgetary aid in the short term. Parliamentary speaker Rached Ghannouchi, meanwhile, has been unable to obtain support from his allies in Qatar.

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Tunisia
Specs row delays armoured vehicle procurement

Technical disagreements between Tunisia's interior minister and The Armored Group have delayed the delivery of vehicles destined for the police and national guard.

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Tunisia
Government cybersecurity advisor branches out on his own with DefensyLab

Ahmed Chabchoub, the government's former cybersecurity advisor, has launched a firm called DefensyLab that offers consulting and cybersecurity software engineering services as well as offensive penetration testing.

Subscribers only Business 27.04.2021

Tunisia
Ghannouchi leaves parliament's international relations advisor job open

Rached Ghannouchi has still not appointed anyone to the post of adviser in charge of international relations to help him in his position as speaker of the Assembly of People's Representatives (ARP), Tunisia's parliament.

Subscribers only Politics 23.04.2021

Tunisia
Mechichi talks with Dominique Strauss-Kahn ahead of crunch IMF meet

With Tunisia on the verge of default, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has begun talks with Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the hope that the former IMF chief will help him persuade the institution to resume its financial support.

Subscribers only Business 20.04.2021

Tunisia
Pressured by Macron, Saïed reluctantly cranks up OIF summit preparations

The Tunisian head of state has only seven months left to organise the 50th anniversary of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, an event that has been far from a prime concern of his. Ongoing health restrictions and the choice to hold it on the ill-equipped Djerba Island are not making things easier.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 13.04.2021

Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris in June 2020.

Inner circles | Tunisia
Religious conservative Ghannouchi dominates Tunisian parliament

Rached Ghannouchi, who was elected president of the Tunisian parliament in November 2019, has positioned his pawns in various institutions and surrounded himself with a small circle of advisors.

Subscribers only Politics 09.04.2021

Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of the Assembly of People's Representatives (ARP) since 2019.

In Focus | Tunisia
Tunis tries to defuse its debt bomb to avoid going into default

Tunisia, which has been given an official warning by the IMF and had its credit status downgraded by the ratings agencies, is struggling to cope with an external debt which currently stands at close to 100% of its GDP and is weighing heavily on its finances.

Subscribers only Politics 29.03.2021

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Ali Kooli
Anantara
Aziz Miled
Banque centrale de Tunisie
Belhassen Trabelsi
Carthage Cement
Covid-19
Ennahda
Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
Hichem Mechichi
International Monetary Fund
Kais Saied
Leila Ben Ali
Majda Tunisia
Printemps
Qatar Investment Authority
Qatar National Bank
Qatari Diar
Rached Ghannouchi
Rafik Abdessalem
Sakher el-Materi
Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani
Victor Nazim Reda Agha
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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No helping hand from Emir Al-Thani ahead of Tunisia's fraught IMF meet

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Gulf states set conditions for Kais Saied

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Saied's ex-chief of staff Nadia Akacha poised to discover outcome of cases against her

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