North Africa is facing an acute mental health challenge, with three of its countries—Tunisia, Morocco, and...
Tunisia Bound
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 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...
Tunisia: As the world decriminalizes use of cannabis, Tunisian law remains stubbornly intransigent
Thirty years' jail for smoking a joint after a football game? Tunisia has seen calls for reforms to dictatorship-era...
Tunisia: Soldiers killed in blast during anti-terror sweep at Mount Mghila
A landmine killed four Tunisian soldiers on Wednesday during an counter-terrorism operation in mountainous central...
Tunisia: President’s aide briefly hospitalized after opening suspect letter
The Tunisian president's chief of staff has been hospitalised after handling a suspicious letter addressed to head of...
Tunisia investigating suspect letter sent to president
An investigation has been opened into a suspect letter addressed to Tunisia's President Kais Saied, his office said...
Tunisia’s government dangerously sliding into repression
Mothers in the Tunisian capital are accusing authorities of arbitrarily arresting their children in response to...
Unable to govern, North African governments are using repression as their only tool in their toolbox
This week (ending 21 January 2021), Tunisia made the front pages of global media with Tunisians clashing with security...
Tunisia: Rights groups decry mass arrests in Tunisia
Tunisian security forces have arrested at least 1,000 people during six nights of urban unrest between disaffected...
Tunisia: Prime Minister recognizes “legitimate” anger of protesters but unrest continues
Young Tunisians clashed with security forces overnight and protest organisers called for anti-government rallies...
Tunisia: Street riots continue for fourth night in Tunisia
Tunisia braced for further protests Tuesday after hundreds were arrested in four nights of street clashes between riot...
Tunisia: Economic and social despair fuel unrest in Tunisia
Tunisia has seen a new wave of street clashes since the North African country marked the 10th anniversary of its...
Tunisia: Chaos and unrest in several cities, troops deployed
Tunisian authorities said Monday they had arrested more than 600 people and deployed troops after a third consecutive...
Tunisia PM reorganizes government cabinet, dozen ministers affected by reshuffle
Tunisia's Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi announced on Saturday a major cabinet reshuffle affecting 12 ministries, in...
Tunisia: Switzerland may unfreeze dictator’s ill-gotten millions stashed in its banks, the Tunisian people could lose it all
Tunisia could lose millions of dollars stashed in Switzerland by the family of ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben...
Turkey’s growing influence in the Maghreb, from drones to soap operas
By Hamza Mekouar: Turkey is boosting its influence across North Africa, analysts say, intervening militarily in...
Arab tyrants and their cronies: how Tunisia’s Ben Ali clan ended in utter misery and disgrace
Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like...
Tunisia: Celebrating one decade of protest and a whole lot more to come
By Caroline Nelly Perrrot and Aymen Jamli: Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, has also been its relative success...
Tunisia says it neutralized Al-Qaeda cell plotting “terrorist attacks”
Tunisia has arrested a suspected branch leader of Al-Qaeda in North Africa, along with several others suspected of...
Tunisia wants UN monitors in Libya
Tunisia, the current president of the UN Security Council, called Monday for a resolution sending international...
Tunisia extends state of emergency, grants exceptional powers to security forces
The Tunisian presidency on Friday announced a six-month extension of the country's state of emergency, in place since...
Tunisia arrests dozen people over waste shipped from Italy
Tunisia arrested a dozen people including its environment minister Monday in a scandal over hundreds of containers of...
Tunisia: Shepherd in Kasserine beheaded, authorities say attackers are terrorists
The decapitated body of a young man has been found in Tunisia's central Kasserine region, in a probable "terrorist"...
Tunisia: Italian garbage landing in Tunisia forces president to fire environment minister
Tunisia’s environment minister and others arrested over Italian trash scandal Tunisia arrested a dozen people...
Algeria’s mediocre diplomacy: Even the Tunisians are slowly turning their back to Algiers ($)
Between Tunis and Algiers, diplomatic relations are strained, resulting from the recent statements of two former top...
Tunisia: Gulf monarchies are not ripping apart just Libya, they are now focused on Tunisia via their local proxies ($)
How Ennahdha chief Ghannouchi sides with Qatar and Abir Moussi is the UAE's darling in Tunisia. In Tunisia, two...
Divided Maghreb countries celebrate one common thing: the Couscous
Couscous, the Berber dish beloved across northern Africa's Maghreb region and beyond, Wednesday joined the UN list of...
Tunisia’s unfinished revolution
Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, dreams for a better future lie crushed, and in...