Memia Benna is a

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n politician. She serves as the Minister of the Environment under Prime Minister

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Memia Benna
''Tunisia Live'', 22 December 2011

Biography

Memia Benna was born in 1966 in

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. She worked as an assistant professor in

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, and later as secretary general of the Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology in Borj Cedria. On 20 December 2011, she joined the

Jebali Cabinet The first cabinet of Tunisian Head of Government Hamadi Jebali was presented on 20 December 2011. Jebali has been appointed by interim President Moncef Marzouki, who had been elected by the National Constituent Assembly A constituent assemb ...

as Minister of the Environment.

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