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With oppression and no free speech, North Africans turn to football stadiums for politics
By Hamza Mekouar - From Casablanca to Algiers via Tunis, the chants belted out across football stadiums echo young North African fans' frustrations not connected to the highs and lows of the beautiful game. Chants of "F'bladi delmouni!" ("Oppressed in my country!") at...
Tunisian Customs seizes thousands of psychotropic pills in Sidi Bouzid, arrests Algerian trafficker
Tunisia: Police find unauthorized bullets in Skhira
Analysis: Northern half of Africa bracing for upheaval this year
MEA Risk LLC - 29 January 2020: There has been a dangerous escalation of security risks and instability in the Maghreb and Sahel region since the start of 2020. War looks set to intensify in countries like Libya, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali and others in the...
Tunisia: Journalist and rights activist Lina Ben M’henni dies at 36
Tunis, Jan 27, 2020 - Acclaimed Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, who chronicled the popular uprising that toppled longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, died on Monday aged 36 after a long illness, her family said. Despite the risks, Ben Mhenni for years...
Tunisia: Court Officers to launch nationwide strike on 4 February
Tunisia: Military arrests wanted female terrorist in Bouhajila
Tunisia: Gang raids bank in Sijoumi
Libya/Tunisia: Syrian fighters seize facility of Chinese industrial company near Tunisia borders
Tunisia: Former minister asked to form government after assembly rejected his predecessor
Tunis, Jan 20, 2020 - Former finance minister Elyes Fakhfakh was named prime minister-designate by Tunisia's president late Monday, and will now face the difficult task of forming a cabinet within a month. Newly elected President Kais Saied "on Monday mandated Mr...
Tunisia: Eight people sentenced to death for 2015 attack
Tunis, Jan 18, 2020 - A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced eight people to death in a trial for a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus that killed 12. The November 24, 2015 suicide bombing in the capital Tunis claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) killed a dozen...
Tunisia: Impasse as parliament rejects Jemli’s cabinet
Tunis, Jan 10, 2020 - The Tunisian parliament on Friday rejected the government of Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli after months of negotiations between political parties to fill positions. Jemli, an independent, was nominated by the Islamist inspired Ennahdha...
Tunisia: 28 ministers in PM Jemli’s incoming cabinet
Tunis, Jan 2, 2020 - Tunisia's prime minister-designate on Thursday unveiled a proposed government composed of independent figures, after months of negotiations between political parties to fill positions failed. The cabinet -- comprised of 28 ministers, most of whom...
Tunisia: Can President Kais Saied deliver on his pledges
Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, Dec 17, 2019 - Tunisia's president on Tuesday commemorated the start of the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, vowing to honour the demands of the revolution. President Kais Saied, an independent academic elected in a...
Tunisia: Unrest in Jelma, Sidi Bouzid
Tunis, Dec 3, 2019 - Eleven Tunisians were arrested during a night of clashes between protesters and police in the central region of Sidi Bouzid, the interior ministry said Tuesday, after the self-immolation of a young man sparked outrage. Clashes in Jelma started...
Tunisia: Death toll from bus accident in Amdoun reaches 26, bus manager in custody
Ain Snoussi, Tunisia, Dec 2, 2019 - At least 26 people were killed when their bus crashed into a barrier on a mountain road and careered into a ravine in northwest Tunisia, officials said Monday. The health ministry said that 17 people were also injured in Sunday's...
Tunisia: Another case of corruption in North Africa. UK fines Alstom
London, Nov 25, 2019 - The UK arm of French rail firm Alstom was on Monday fined £15 million ($20 million, 17.5 million euros) for bribery in relation to a tram contract in Tunisia, Britain's Serious Fraud Office said. Alstom Network UK Ltd was convicted of...
Nabeul-Tunisia: Partial reshuffle of governors in Tunisia
Tunisia: Uproar over an MP accused of indecency
Tunis, Nov 13, 2019 - Tunisian women protested outside parliament Wednesday against the swearing in of a newly elected lawmaker who was caught in a video that purported to show him masturbating outside a school. The protesters fear that Zouheir Makhlouf, who walked...
Tunisia: Ennahdah’s chief Rached Ghannouchi elected parliament speaker
Tunis, Nov 13, 2019 - The leader of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, Rached Ghannouchi, was elected parliament speaker on Wednesday, a month after it came top in legislative polls. Ghannouchi secured the post with 123 votes from 217 votes cast in...
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