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Tunisia prepares for elections
Tunis, Sept 4, 2019 - Rushing to register candidates and train poll workers, Tunisia's electoral commission has raced to organise presidential elections after the death of leader Beji Caid Essebsi, hoping to protect the country's nascent democracy. The Independent...
Tunisia: Four killed in army-insurgent clash in Kasserine
Tunis, Sept 2, 2019 (AFP) - A national guard officer and three suspected jihadist militants were killed in a gunbattle in northwest Tunisia on Monday, his force said. "Terrorists are still around but Tunisia is stronger," Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said, paying...
Tunisia: One of these five will be Tunisia’s next president
Tunisia's electoral commission on Saturday announced a final list of 26 presidential candidates to stand in a September 15 poll to elect a successor to late leader Beji Caid Essebsi. "There are 26 candidates for the 2019 presidential election," electoral commission...
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Tunisia: Despite his arrest, Nabil Karoui remains presidential candidate
Media magnate Nabil Karoui remains in the race for Tunisia's upcoming presidential election despite his arrest for alleged money laundering, the head of the country's electoral commission said Saturday. Karoui, one of 26 presidential candidates given preliminary...
Tunisia: Islamist media and a candidate TV banned from covering election campaign
Tunis, Aug 23, 2019 - Tunisian electoral and media authorities have banned three local outlets from covering the presidential election campaign, including a channel founded by key candidate Nabil Karoui. The ban targets media mogul Karoui's Nessma TV, alongside...
Tunisian election regulator cleans up list of candidates to presidential election
Tunis - Tunisia's electoral commission has rejected nearly three quarters of hopefuls for next month's presidential election, accepting just two women as candidates, it said Wednesday. The poll was brought forward from November following the July death of president...
Legmi, Tunisia’s coveted date palm drink
By Anaelle De Araujo: As soon as the sun is up, people in southern Tunisia rush out to buy a glass or bottle of legmi, a coveted date palm drink that is too delicate to be sold far from the oasis. At 7:00 am, at the busy Ain Slam roundabout in the centre of the...
Tunisia: Abdelfattah Mourou of Islamist party Ennahdha to run for presidential election
Tunis, Aug 7, 2019 - Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party announced a presidential candidate for the first time Wednesday, ahead of polls next month. "The party's advisory council has voted by a majority of 98 votes in favour of Abdelfattah Mourou's candidacy at...
Tunisia turns back Ivorian migrants to Libya despite safety concerns
Tunis, Aug 7, 2019 - The United Nations sounded the alarm Wednesday over the safety of 36 Ivorian migrants, including children and women, turned back by Tunisian authorities on the border with Libya. The UN office in Tunis said it had been informed that the migrants,...
Tunisia braces for snap presidential election
Tunis, Aug 2, 2019 - Presidential hopefuls in Tunisia began registering their candidacies on Friday for snap September polls called after the death of 92-year-old leader Beji Caid Essebsi. Eight would-be candidates, including media magnate Nabil Karoui, submitted...
Tunisia: Army kills two insurgents near Bou Amrane
Two armed alleged jihadists have been shot dead in an "anti-terrorist" operation led by national guard and army units in southern Tunisia, the interior ministry said Saturday. The two "terrorists" were killed in the mountainous area of Orbata in Gafsa, the ministry...
Tunisians bid farewell to President Essebsi
Tunis, July 27, 2019 (By Kaouther Larbi) - French President Emmanuel Macron and other foreign leaders attended Friday the funeral of Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi as the North African nation gears up for snap elections as early as September to defend the...
Tunisia: Elections likely to be held 15 September after death of President Essebsi
Tunis, July 26, 2019 (By Caroline Nelly Perrot) - Tunisia has less than two months to organise snap elections following the death of president Beji Caid Essebsi, amid uncertainty over who could step forward to run the North African country. Essebsi, the country's...
Tunisia: Death of President Essebsi forces change in election calendar
Tunis, July 25, 2019 - Tunisia is to bring forward a planned November presidential election by several weeks, the electoral commission said Thursday following the death of incumbent Beji Caid Essebsi. Interim leader Mohammed Ennaceur "has 90 days to organise a...
Tunisia: President Beji Caid Essebsi Dies at 92
Tunis, July 25, 2019 - Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country's first democratically elected leader, died Thursday at the age of 92, his office said. The veteran politician, the oldest head of state after Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, came to...
Maghreb: Libya warlord Haftar’s warplane breaches Tunisia air space
Beni Ghezayel, Tunisia, July 22, 2019 - A Libyan warplane of military commander Khalifa Haftar's forces made an emergency landing in neighbouring Tunisia on Monday, authorities in Libya said. The aircraft was on a "reconnaissance and patrol mission and suffered a...
Tunisia: Islamic State Group issues new threat against Tunisia
Tunis, July 17, 2019 - The Islamic State group has called for more attacks in Tunisia in a rare propaganda video purportedly filmed by the jihadists in the North African nation. It comes three weeks after a twin suicide attack against police in the capital Tunis...
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