North Africa is facing an acute mental health challenge, with three of its countries—Tunisia, Morocco, and...
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Tunisian SMEs Warn of Economic Paralysis Over 20% Bank Guarantee Rule
A new rule requiring small and medium-sized Tunisian businesses to provide a 20% bank guarantee for service contracts...
Tunisia: Diaspora Funds Provide Lifeline for Tunisia’s Economy
Remittances from Tunisians living abroad reached 6.5 billion dinars (approximately $2.05 billion USD) by the end of...
Tunisia: Rights abuses of the Ben Ali era return as normal practice in today’s Tunisia
Photo: Noureddine Bhiri The United Nations on Tuesday expressed concern over human rights abuses in Tuesday and...
Tunisia launches controversial constitutional reform process
Tunisia on Saturday launched a wide-ranging national consultation that will feed into drafting a new constitution, the...
Tunisia: Jailed ex-minister in hospital, refuses treatment and food
Tunisia's detained former justice minister Noureddine Bhiri is refusing food or medication after his transfer to...
Tunisia: Army helicopter crashes in Bizerte, two killed
Two Tunisian soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash on Monday, one instantly and the other of his wounds in...
Tunisia: Drama in Tunis after fire at Islamist party building kills one, injures many
Footage from the scene One person died and 18 others were injured including two leading figures from Tunisia's...
Covid-19: First case of Omicron in Tunisia comes from Turkey
Tunisia recorded its first confirmed case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a Congolese man who arrived...
Tunisia: President Saied to re-write history, says revolt is unfinished
Tunisia's President Kais Saied said Thursday he would move the official anniversary of the country's revolution, a...
Podcast: Tunisia revisited- How the government neglects the inner regions
Tunisia Revisited: MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud reviews where Tunisia stands as of November 2021 in the areas of...
Tunisia seeks IMF support for a $4 billion loan
The IMF has received a request for aid from the new government in Tunisia and discussions over a new loan program have...
Environment: Climate change could further destabilize North Africa
By Paul Raymond Tunisian olive farmer Ali Fileli looked out over his parched fields and crushed a lump of dry, dusty...
Tunisia: Unrest in Agareb over a dangerous landfill
By Aymen Jamli - [Watch video at bottom] As tear gas and protest cries filled the air in the Tunisian town of Agareb,...
Tunisia: General strike in Aguereb after death of resident from tear gas inhalation
A Tunisian city held a general strike on Wednesday, after a protester died of tear gas inhalation during angry...
Organic farming in the Maghreb: Tunisia ahead, Morocco trails, Algeria is far behind
By Kaouther Larbi and Françoise Kadri Proudly displaying her freshly picked pomegranates, Tunisian farmer Sarah Shili...
At least 2 Tunisians killed in oil field accident off Libya
At least two Tunisian oil workers were killed and two went missing when cables holding a floating reservoir snapped...
Tunisian regime starting to use judicial harassment to attack critics
A Tunisian judge on Thursday issued an international warrant to summon Paris-based former president Moncef Marzouki...
As Tunisia runs out of cash, president calls on people to pitch in, not in direct TV speech but in cabinet meeting
President Kais Saied urged Tunisians on Thursday to help replenish state coffers and overcome the country's financial...
North Africa’s skilled workers looking to leave their countries in droves
Subscriber access: Algeria is experiencing a mass exodus of medical doctors and other skilled professionals,...
Return to authoritarianism fuels anger in the Arab world
By Ezzedine Said A military coup in Sudan has dealt another blow to democracy in the Arab world, months after a power...
Tunisia: Nabil Karoui’s problems escalate after government closes Nessma TV
Tunisia's media authority on Wednesday ordered the closure of Nessma TV channel founded by defeated presidential...
Tunisia: President Saied annoyed by the opposition abroad, calls them traitors
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday accused unnamed politicians of using refuge overseas to "plot" against the...
Tunisia cracks down on Islamist media
US criticizes Tunisia press crackdown The United States on Thursday criticized Tunisia's shuttering of a television...
Tunisia: President Saied appoints fellow academic to run government
By Aymen Jamli: Tunisia's president on Wednesday named geologist Najla Bouden as the country's first ever female prime...
Tunisia: Opposition rallies against president
About 2,000 Tunisians rallied in the capital on Sunday to protest against President Kais Saied's recent steps to...
Tunisia: Trade union UGTT perplexed by president’s power grab
Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union warned Friday against threats to the country's democracy after President Kais...
Environment: Beach pollution in Tunisia
By Akim Rezgui with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Tahar Jaouebi looks out from a beach south of Tunis remembering the...
Algeria: Former Tunisian presidential candidate Karoui placed in pre-trial detention in Algeria
The runner-up in Tunisia's 2019 presidential election, Nabil Karoui, has been placed in pre-trial detention in...
Tunisia: The problem of arbitrary practices in Tunisia
The World Organisation Against Torture on Friday urged Tunisia's President Kais Saied -- who suspended the country's...
Regimes in Algeria and Tunisia gang up to kill democracy and human rights
Algeria-Tunisia: Scratch my back, I'll scratch yours Tunisian opposition politician and media owner Nabil Karoui and...
Tunisians confronting uncertainty
By Kaouther Larbi: Many people in Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of Tunisia's 2011 revolution that launched the Arab Spring,...
Tunisian businessman and ex presidential candidate Karoui arrested in Algeria
Liberal party leader Nabil Karoui, runner-up in Tunisia's 2019 presidential election that saw Kais Saied elected, has...
Tunisia: Enjoying popular support, President Saied reasserts his authority, ups pressure on his opponents
Tunisian President Kais Saied has extended his suspension of parliament "until further notice", a month after sacking...
Tunisian president scores big wins with military support and Islamist party doing soul searching
Ennahda party looking for new directions Tunisia's Ennahdha party ready for 'self-critique' Tunisia's...
Covid-19 in the Maghreb: More restrictions in Morocco, peak infection in Tunisia and panic in Algeria
Coronavirus: Latest global developments Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: - China outbreak –...
Tunisian police arrest more parliamentarians critical to the president
Tunisian security forces have arrested two MPs from an Islamist party opposed to a power grab by President Kais Saied,...
Tunisia: Critic of president, Parliamentarian Yassine Ayari arrested
Tunisian security forces on Friday arrested a member of parliament who condemned President Kais Saied's power grab as...
Podcast: Understanding Tunisia’s political crisis in ten minutes
There has been unusual interest in the west about the political crisis engulfing Tunisia this week. Naturally Tunisia...
Tunisia: Weakened, Islamist leader Ghannouchi struggles to respond to presidential action
Tunisia's Ghannouchi says he wants democracy By Caroline Nelly Perrot, AFP Tunisia's parliament speaker Rached...
Tunisian president accuses hundreds of businessmen of corruption
By Romain Fonsegrives: Tunisia's President Kais Saied accused 460 businessmen of embezzlement as he declared a...
Tunisia: President fires more senior officials
By Caroline Nelly Perrot ; Tunisia lurched further into political uncertainty Wednesday, as President Kais Saied...
Tunisia: Three political parties under investigation over alleged foreign funding
Tunisia's judiciary has opened an investigation into allegations political parties received foreign funding ahead of...











