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Tunisia: President Saied under pressure to restore Supreme Judicial Council
Western envoys to Tunisia and the UN rights chief urged President Kais Saied on Tuesday to restore a key judicial watchdog, warning that scrapping it threatens the rule of law. Saied dissolved the Supreme Judicial Council (CSM) on Sunday, months after sacking the...
Tunisia: Police surround judicial watchdog, prevent access to building
Tunisian police on Monday blocked access to the country's top judicial watchdog in a move its chief slammed as "illegal", two days after President Kais Saied dissolved the body. The United States, for its part, said it was "deeply concerned" by Saied's action....
Tunisia: Growing fear that Tunisia may be sliding towards autocracy
Opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied have condemned his "illegal" decision to dissolve the country's top judicial watchdog, a move experts warned Monday is part of a slide towards autocracy. Tunisia had been lauded as a rare democratic success story following...
Tunisia rescues 163 migrants off coast of Sfax
The Tunisian navy has rescued 163 would-be migrants, including women and children, off the country's east coast, the defence ministry said on Sunday. "As part of a joint operation with the coastguard, a naval unit rescued Saturday 163 illegal migrants," the ministry...
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 demanded that a former justice minister held in a clampdown on the Islamist-inspired party Ennahda be either charged or freed. Noureddine Bhiri, an MP 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 North African country's technology ministry said. Part of a reform package pushed by President Kais Saied, who is seeking to bolster his authority,...
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 hospital, a member of a delegation that visited him told AFP on Monday. Bhiri, deputy president of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, which President...
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 hospital, the defence ministry said. The military helicopter crashed in the early afternoon during a routine mission in the northern Tunisia region of...
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 Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party in a fire at its headquarters Thursday, authorities and party members said. Ennahdha said on Facebook that one of its...
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 from Istanbul, the health minister said Friday. Ali Mrabet said the 23-year-old man tested positive and all fellow travellers on his flight from Turkey...
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 symbolic shift indicating that the revolt is unfinished. Tunisia's uprising broke out on December 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a vegetable salesman...
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 social and economic development.
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 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 Africa
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 landfill
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: 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 demonstrations over the reopening of a rubbish dump. Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died early Tuesday in Aguereb, in the Sfax region on the central coast, after...
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 says going organic is "the future of farming" -- and as demand surges in North Africa and beyond, the sector is blooming. Shili runs Domaine Elixir...
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 plunging them into the sea off western Libya, officials said Saturday. The Tunisian consulate in Libya, on its Facebook page, said two bodies were...
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 for questioning, state TV reported. President Kais Saied in October ordered the justice ministry to open an inquiry into 76-year-old Marzouki, days...
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 crisis. "I call on Tunisians both in Tunisia and abroad to find the necessary funds," he said at a cabinet meeting. He did not give details of how...
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