Tunisia Bound

Podcast: Tunisia revisited- How the government neglects the inner regionsF

Tunisia Revisited: MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud reviews where Tunisia stands as of November 2021 in the areas of social and economic development.

Tunisia seeks IMF support for a $4 billion loanF

The IMF has received a request for aid from the new government in Tunisia and discussions over a new loan program have already started, the Washington-based crisis lender said Thursday. The North African country is facing a serious economic crisis that is discouraging...

Environment: Climate change could further destabilize North AfricaF

By Paul Raymond Tunisian olive farmer Ali Fileli looked out over his parched fields and crushed a lump of dry, dusty earth in his hand. "I can't do anything with my land because of the lack of water," he said. Fileli is just one of many farmers who have been left high...

Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a dangerous landfillF

By Aymen Jamli - [Watch video at bottom] As tear gas and protest cries filled the air in the Tunisian town of Agareb, Mabrouka Ben Ibrahim vowed to demonstrate for her daughter, whose death she blames on a nearby rubbish dump. Yousra, 21, died in 2019 after being...

Tunisia: President issues decree that punishes authors of “fake news” with up to 5 years in prisonF

Sep 19, 2022

Tunisia's President Kais Saied issued a decree Friday that punishes the dissemination of "fake news" with up to five...

Tunisia to raise public sector salaries in bid to ease social tensionF

Sep 16, 2022

Tunisia's government and the country's powerful UGTT union signed a deal boosting public sector salaries on Thursday, ...

Migrations: Number of Tunisians fleeing their country to Italy up 11% this yearF

Sep 14, 2022

More than 13,000 clandestine Tunisian migrants have reached Italy by sea since the start of the year, almost a fifth...

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