Tunisia: limited governmental reshuffle

An official source in Tunisia stated that President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali made a ministerial reshuffle that dealt basically with the "ministries of industry, energy and education."

In the framework of this reshuffle, he removed two former ministers. They are Fatehi al-Mirdasi and Muhammad Raouf al-Najjar at the ministries of the industry, energy, and that of education and higher education, replacing two ministers Munsif Bin Abdullah and Munsir al-Rweiso who got out of the government.

Three Kuttab Dawla ( state secretaries ) were also changed: Hatem Bin Salem replaced Youssef Muqaddem as a state secretary at the foreign ministry in charge of African and Maghreb affairs. Omar Abed was appointed as a secretary of state at the peasantry, the environment, water resources ministry in charge of water resources and fishing. Khalil al-Ajami was appointed as a secretary at the minister of industry, in charge of rehabilitation.