Tunisia Bound

A record number of irregular migrants under 18 years old reached Italy from Tunisia last year, more than quadrupling in four years, a rights group said Wednesday. Tunisia has become a major conduit for migrants seeking to reach European shores, particularly the...

By Kaouther Larbi Tunisian President Kais Saied, who last year grabbed power in what critics labelled a coup, has now asked voters for their political views -- but days before the online poll closes, fewer than six percent had taken part. Most people in the small...

Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied's power grab and the economic crisis in the North African country. "Poverty has increased", and "Famine is at our doorsteps", they chanted as at least 2,000...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied inaugurated a "temporary" council of judges on Monday, which replaces an independent watchdog that he abolished weeks ago as he seized sweeping powers over the judiciary.  Saied had last month scrapped the High Judicial Council (CSM),...