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North Africa Confronted with New Security Concerns
Security issues in North Africa have been in the news recently. There is news coverage in Spain about Morocco stepping...
Tunisia’s weak economic performance compounded by late data releases
Tunisia’s political system is still compromised, but the economy is showing some signs of minimal recovery. However,...
Tunisia: At least 60 migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
More than 60 migrants of sub-Saharan origin have been lost at sea off Tunisia since Saturday, after two Europe-bound...
Tunisia’s model seaweed farming
By Kaouther Larbi Wading knee-deep in the calm waters of a lagoon, workers in northern Tunisia harvest red seaweed, in...
Tunisia: With a destabilized Libya, Tunisia grapples with migrant crisis
Tunisia authorities on Thursday rescued 267 migrants, most of them Bangladeshis, who tried to sail from neighbouring...
Tunisia releases former presidential candidate Karoui after half year in detention
Tunisia on Tuesday released media mogul and former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui from more than half a year in...
Tunisia: Clashes in Tunis over police brutality
Photo credit: @YassineGaidi Youths clashed with officers again Saturday evening, hours after a demonstration in the...
Tunisia: Outrage over police beating of minor captured on video
A video of what seems to be officers in civilian clothes beating a naked minor has sparked outrage in Tunisia, two...
Tunisia media mogul and ex presidential candidate Nabil Karoui hospitalized after launching a hunger strike
Tunisian media mogul and former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui has been hospitalised three days after launching a...
Tunisia: Two migrants drown, others missing
At least 23 migrants were missing and two bodies recovered from the sea off Tunisia, the Red Crescent reported...
Tunisia: Former presidential candidate and media owner Karoui still in prison
Tunisia's Qalb Tounes party, a member of the governing coalition, on Thursday demanded the release of its leader and...
Tunisian army clashes with insurgents in Mount Chaambi, kills five suspects
Tunisian forces on Monday killed five suspected jihadists in an air and ground operation targeting a rugged mountain...
Tunisia: 17 Europe-bound migrants drown off Tunisia
At least 17 migrants drowned as a boat sank off Tunisia, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday,...
Covid-19: Tunisia PM warns of risk of collapse of health facilities, announces new restrictions
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Tunisia: IMF “ready to help” but in no hurry. Painful reforms ahead
The IMF stands "ready" to offer Tunisia an aid package to deal with the current financial crisis, a fund official said...
Tunisia: Tourism sector continues downward crash, revenues in 1Q less than half last year’s ($)
Tourism receipts in Tunisia have experienced a considerable decline of 55% year over year in the first four months of...
Tunisia: Strike in the healthcare sector
Tunisian government doctors in non-emergency roles launched a three-day strike Monday to demand premiums paid to other...
Tunisia: Migrant sea crossings from Tunisia could surge this summer
By Kaouther Larbi - Aminata Traoure survived a shipwreck in which she lost her baby daughter, her sister and her niece...
Tunisia looking for an IMF bailout
Tunisia will send a delegation to Washington this week to seek global financial support for an economic reform...
Tunisia: Islamist lawmaker Rached Khiari accuses US of funding Kais Saied’s presidential campaign
The United States on Wednesday denied financing the Tunisian president's 2019 election campaign, after accusations...
Tunisia: Dozens of would-be-migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
At least 41 people, including a child, have died after a boat carrying African migrants to Europe sank off Tunisia,...
MENA region more vulnerable to Covid-19 with the start of Ramadan
The World Health Organization expressed concern Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic could worsen in the Middle East...
Tunisians use old age Ramli technique to fight drought
By Aymen Jamli - Farmers near a seaside lagoon in northern Tunisia are fighting to preserve a unique, traditional...
Tunisia: Media tycoon Nabil Karoui slammed with huge fine over alleged unpaid taxes
A Tunisian court has ordered detained tycoon and one-time presidential candidate Nabil Karoui to pay a six...
Tunisia: Italian garbage still piled up in Tunisia, owners unwilling to remove it
Italy and Tunisia were pressed on Thursday to clear hundreds of containers of waste illegally shipped and stored at a...
Tunisia launches first domestically made satellite
By Caroline Nelly Perrot - Tunisia celebrated the launch Monday of its first domestically made satellite, hoping it...
Tunisian youth in permanent fear of repression
By Caroline Nelly Perrot - Hamza Nasri, a young Tunisian activist, hit the streets as part of anti-government protests...
Tunisia counts its losses from the Jasmine Revolution
Tunisia's government has finally given an official toll of 129 dead and 634 injured in its 2011 revolution, in what an...
Tunisia repatriates from Libya women and children allegedly tied to Jihadists
Tunisia has repatriated at least 16 women and children accused of links to extremist jihadi fighters imprisoned in...
Libya headed toward normalcy as Tunisian president visits Tripoli after a nine-year break
Tunisia's President Kais Saied is to travel to Libya Wednesday for the first visit by a head of state between the...
Tunisia: Landmines claim more lives in Kasserine, two children killed in blast
Two children were killed and a woman wounded in a landmine blast Thursday in a mountainous region of western Tunisia...
Tunisia: Dozens of migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
At least 39 migrants drowned off Tunisia when two boats capsized on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, as numbers...
Tunisia: Russia to deliver first batch of 30K Sputnik V doses to Tunisia
Tunisia said Monday the first coronavirus vaccines were set to arrive to start mass inoculation in the North African...
Tunisia: State companies on the brink of collapse
By Aymen Jamli - Tunisia's state-owned firms are in dire straits, facing a perfect storm of debt, mismanagement, the...
Tunisia’s gender violence law struggles to get beyond paper
When Nadia told police about her husband's violence during a coronavirus lockdown in Tunisia, she nearly lost custody...
Tunisia: Uproar in Tunisia over arrest of LGBT campaigner Rania Amdouni
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Tunisian capital Saturday to demand the release of a gay rights and...
Tunisia: Street protests and political standoff in Tunisia
Tunisia's main parliamentary bloc Ennahdha rallied thousands of people Saturday in a demonstration of support for the...
Covid-19: Tunisians adjust burial practices to cope with the coronavirus
By Aymen Jamli - Lotfi Jlassi stood facing Mecca beside the ambulance carrying the body of his brother, who died of...
Tunis Air CEO dismissed after month into job
Tunisia's transport minister on Monday fired the CEO of Tunisair, just over a month after naming her to revive the...
Tunisia: IS claims killing of 4 Tunisia soldiers near Mount Mghila
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the February 3 killing of four soldiers in a rugged region of...
Covid-19: Tunisia postpones vaccination campaign to March
Tunisia will receive its coronavirus jabs in March, postponing the expected start of its vaccination campaign, a...
Tunisia: Five killed by bootleg brew in Kasserine
Five people died and 25 others were hospitalised in Tunisia after drinking a bootleg brew reportedly containing...