An IMF team will hold talks with the Tunisian government next week on a financial aid program the country requested last year, a spokesman said Thursday. The North African nation in mid-November requested a loan program from the Washington-based crisis lender, and the International Monetary Fund will conduct a “virtual” mission February 14-22, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters. Since the request was submitted, fund staff have held “technical discussions” with government officials “focusing on the immediate economic challenges, the country’s priorities and the reforms to be implemented in…