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About us
The North Africa Foreign Correspondents’ Club (NAFCC) is an association of professional journalists. It was set up in 2014 under the Tunisian association’s law with an office based in Tunis. NAFCC represents the professional interests of regionally based journalists working for international media in North Africa’s countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt). NAFCC, also, ensures that its members fulfill their reporting duties freely and independently, defending a free media and protecting journalists. As part of its activities, the Club, regularly, invites important guests and experts, in Tunisia for meetings to chat and exchange with its members. Follow...
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Meetings
The club invites a prominent guest or expert for an off-the-record meeting every month. Since the NAFCC’s first meeting in January 2014, guests have included: 2014 François Gouyette, the French ambassador to Tunisia Hamadi Jebali, former Tunisian prime minister Wided Bouchamaoui, president of the Tunisian Union for Industry, Commerce and Handicrafts (UTICA) Samir Dilou, member of Ennahda and former Human Rights and Transitional Justice Minister Jacob Kolster, director North Africa at the African Development Bank Beji Caid Essebsi, president of Nida Tounes Antonio Nucifora, World Bank’s lead economist for Tunisia Chafik Sarsar, president of the Independent higher authority for elections Michael Béchir Ayari, International Crisis Group’s senior Tunisia analyst 2015 Amine Ghali, director of Kawakibi center for democratic transition Hamish Cowell and Michael Aron, British ambassadors to Tunisia and Libya Flavien Bourrat, researcher at IRSEM, defence expert Mohsen Marzouk, advisor of the president Béji Caied Essebsi Bob Rijkers, World Bank expert Rafaa Tabib, Libya expert Sergio Latouna, Researcher & consultant specialized in political islam & jihadist movements in the Maghreb, at Instituto de Seguridad Global. Maxime Poulin, Security Analyst at DCAF 2016 Daniel Rubinstein, US ambassador to Tunisia Bochra Belhaj Hmida, MP Ziad Laadhari, minister of Industry and Trade Yassine Brahim, president of Afek Tounes and former minister Karim Ben Smail, Cérès Editions Hichem Ben Ammar, founder of Djerba Doc Days Mourad Mathari, Jazz à...
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November 2018
Mirco Keilberth : Am goldenen Arsch der Welt, Taz, november, 27, 2018:
Im Tschad artet ein Konflikt zwischen Goldgräbern und dem Militär zu einem Krieg aus, an dem sich nun auch die Nachbarländer beteiligen.
October 2018
Ulf Laessing : Pasta and petrol: smuggling crackdown stirs dissent in Tunisia’s south, Reuters, october,29, 2018:
Tunisian Zubair Abdel-Moula lost his work selling smuggled fuel on the streets of a poor southern town after the government tightened controls with Libya to stop militants crossing the 460km (286 miles) border.
September 2018
Massinissa Benlakehal: Tunisia’s Kerkennah Islands: A land for smuggling, The New Arab, September, 27, 2018:
As Libya’s shores sees tightened controls, Tunisia’s Kerkennah Islands has become the new route for migrants trying to make the crossing to Europe in the past year.