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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 media tycoon Nabil Karoui, who is in custody over money laundering allegations. Party lawmaker Oussama Khlifi told a news conference in parliament that...
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 hideout of Islamist fighters, the interior ministry said. The operation launched at dawn was still underway, the ministry said in a statement, adding...
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, citing two survivors rescued near an oil platform. IOM said the boat had left on Tuesday from the port of Zwara in Libya, a key gateway for...
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 Thursday. However, there is "no timeline" for finalizing an agreement, spokesman for the International Monetary Fund Gerry Rice told reporters.The...
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 2021, compared to the same period in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic which forced tourists out of the country, has led to the collapse of the industry. ...
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 frontline healthcare workers tackling coronavirus in the North African nation. The strike, which comes as Tunisia struggles to stem a surge in...
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 but she is determined to embark again on the illegal crossing to Europe. For the 28-year-old from Ivory Coast, the perilous Mediterranean crossing...
Tunisia looking for an IMF bailout
Tunisia will send a delegation to Washington this week to seek global financial support for an economic reform programme, the prime minister's office said Monday. "A government team will head to Washington at the end of this week for a series of meetings with the...
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 from an Islamist lawmaker against the backdrop of a political crisis in the North African country. "The US Government did not provide funding to...
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, the UN refugee agency and International Organization for Migration said on Friday. "According to reports from local UNHCR and IOM teams, three...
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 and North Africa during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Detected cases of Covid infection in the region rose 22% last week, while deaths rose 17%,...
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 irrigation system that has sparked renewed interest as North Africa's water shortages intensify. Retired schoolteacher Ali Garci wanders among tiny sandy...
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 million-euro fine for failing to pay customs dues, the prosecution said Thursday. "The Tunis court of first instance has sentenced (Karoui) to a fine of 19.5...
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 port in the North African county. In the summer of 2020, Tunisian customs officials seized 282 containers that had been shipped from Italy and...
Tunisia launches first domestically made satellite
By Caroline Nelly Perrot - Tunisia celebrated the launch Monday of its first domestically made satellite, hoping it would inspire young engineers to reach for the stars at home rather than join those emigrating overseas. Challenge-1, built by a team from...
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 in recent months. Now he says he is under police watch and afraid for his friends. "I've moved house three times in recent months. I've stopped...
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 independent body called "a strong signal" of a democratic transition. The tally, long demanded by victims' families, was published late Friday on the...
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 war-ravaged neighbouring Libya, rights groups said Wednesday. Two separate groups of detainees, totalling six women and 10 children, were handed over by...
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 neighbouring countries since 2012, his office announced, in a boost for its new UN-backed administration. Saied's visit aims to show "Tunisia's support...
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