Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) ( ar, وكالة تونس إفريقيا للأنباء) is a Tunisian

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History and profile

The agency, based in Tunis, was founded on 1 January 1961. With a corps of 300 agents, including photographers, researchers and 220 journalists, and a network of correspondents covering all regions of the country, the agency reports on national news in

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, and

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. For international news, the agency uses AFP,

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, and the

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, as well as about forty national agencies. Globally, the agency produces an average of 250 dispatches each day. The agency also has a photography department, which produces around 20 images daily, and has an archive of more than 500,000 photos dating back to the 1930s.

General managers

Hédi Annabi Hédi Annabi (4 September 1943 – 12 January 2010) was a Tunisian diplomat and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). He was previously an Assistant-Secretary-G ...

was the general manager of agency between 1979 and 1981. Néjib Ouerghi was appointed head of the agency on 12 May 2010, replacing Mohamed Missaoui in the post. He had previously spent his entire career at the daily '' La Presse de Tunisie'', before becoming editor-in-chief of ''

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'' until he joined TAP. Taieb Yousfi became the head of the agency on 7 January 2012.

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* {{Authority control 1961 establishments in Tunisia Government agencies established in 1961 Arab news agencies News agencies based in Tunisia Government-owned companies of Tunisia

History and profile

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