Tunisia Bound

Tunisia’s stock market ended 2025 with record-breaking gains, as rising corporate earnings, increased liquidity, and stronger investor participation pushed benchmark indices to historic highs. The rally, now extending into a fifth consecutive year, reflects growing confidence in listed companies and a gradual reallocation of domestic savings toward equities, even as broader economic challenges persist.

Tunisia’s human rights landscape continues to draw scrutiny as a leading rights organization warns of expanding legal and institutional constraints on civil liberties. A new annual assessment points to the growing use of restrictive legislation, judicial pressure, and security-based governance to regulate political expression, social activism, and media activity. While formal legal structures remain in place, the report argues that the practical exercise of rights is increasingly limited, raising questions about the durability of the rule of law and civic space in the country.

A Tunis appeals court has confirmed a two-year prison sentence against opposition leader Abir Moussi, upholding a conviction linked to allegations of digital misinformation and defamation. The ruling, tied to a case initiated by Tunisia’s election authority, comes amid a wider use of legal provisions governing online speech in politically sensitive cases.

Ride-hailing has returned to the political agenda in North Africa, reopening questions governments have been trying to resolve for more than a decade. At the center of the renewed debate is the controlled return of Uber to Morocco, a move that reflects a broader regional recalibration rather than a shift toward liberalization. Inside the sector in Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.