Tunisia Bound

Photo: Ennahdha spokesman Abdelfattah Taghouti: The spokesman of Tunisia's Islamist-leaning Ennahdha party has been detained, his party said on Wednesday, denouncing the latest arrest of a prominent critic of President Kais Saied. Abdelfattah Taghouti was detained by...

Tunisia on Monday inaugurated a new parliament largely stripped of its powers, after a vote that saw a paltry turnout amid boycotts following President Kais Saied's July 2021 power grab. The new assembly, elected in two rounds in December and January that saw a voter...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday moved to dissolve the country's elected municipal councils, seen as a key democratic gain after the 2011 revolt that sparked the Arab Spring. Saied sacked the government in a 2021 power grab, and has since scrapped the...

Fourteen migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have drowned off the coast of the Tunisian city of Sfax, the coastguard said on Thursday.  "Coastguard patrols last night intercepted a group whose boat had sunk, rescuing 54 people of various sub-Saharan African...