Tunisia
Saïed faces wind of revolt in parliament

Tunisia
Carthage takes close look at how associations are funded

The government will soon introduce a bill to increase monitoring of the financial transactions of associations, which it regularly accuses of serving foreign agendas.

Tunisia
Tunis hatches unlikely plan to fill state coffers

Tunisia’s finance ministry is preparing a bill that would give the state rapid access to fresh money. Various attempts made so far have not produced results deemed satisfactory. But the new bill also looks likely to fail.

Palace Intrigues
Amadou Ba, Kais Saied, Paul Biya

Intrigues big and small... Every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

SenegalPresidential candidate Amadou Ba in Paris

TunisiaKais Saied keeps French ambassador waiting

CameroonMinister without Biya's permission to fly misses Medef rendezvous

Tunisia
Could €60m in EU aid snubbed by Tunis still make its way to Tunisian businesses?

Rather than topping up the Tunisian state's coffers, the €60m in budgetary aid that President Kais Saied sent back to the EU could be used to finance technologically innovative Tunisian companies.

Tunisia
UGTT union unable to unite over Kais Saied's referendum

The numerous political factions within the main Tunisian worker's union, UGTT, are making it hard to give its members any sort of instruction on how to vote on the constitutional referendum scheduled on 25 July.