Vol 55 No 23 | TUNISIA Slim pickings 21st November 2014 Slim Riahi, a 42-year-old Bizerta-born businessman with British and Tunisian citizenship, is pitting himself against political heavyweight Béji Caïd Essebsi of Nidaa Tounus (Tunisian Call) in the first...
Vol 55 No 21 | TUNISIA Coalition time 24th October 2014 Tunisia elects a new, 217-member Parliament on 26 October and all eyes are on the possible coalitions that will follow. A formal coalition between the front-runners, the Islamist...
Vol 55 No 20 | TUNISIA Critical votes and toxic loans 10th October 2014 Ahead of key national elections, concern is mounting about the legacy of bad loans from the time of President Ben Ali Dealing with bad debts from the Zine el Abidine Ben Ali era which threaten the banking system has proved so problematic that the government has been contradicting itself....
Vol 55 No 16 | TUNISIA Heading for the hills 30th July 2014 The government is rallying the people behind a major campaign against the jihadists despite weak economic indicators Tunisian security forces are beefing up their campaign against Islamist militants in the Mont Chaambi mountains along the Algerian border with a major purchase of helicopters from the...
Vol 55 No 11 | TUNISIA Enforcers freed 30th May 2014 Most of the senior security officers who served ex-President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali are being freed. Many were sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in killing...
Vol 55 No 9 | TUNISIA Finance smiles on government 24th April 2014 Multilateral lenders and Western governments shower Tunisia with credit in the hope the country does not go the way of neighbouring Libya or Egypt The World Bank became the latest lender to signal its support for the interim government in Tunis when it lent it US$100 million last week to help banks...