Africa: Tunisia

Hichem Mechichi, seen here in February 2020, said he would 'work to form a government that meets the expectations of all Tunisians'. By FETHI BELAID (AFP/File)

Tunisia interior minister named new PM

Jul 26, 2020

Tunisia's interior minister Hichem Mechichi has been appointed to form the next government, the president's office said, ...

A Tunisian protester shuts down a valve blocking oil production in impoverished southern Tunisia amid growing demands by unemployed youths for jobs and the development of their marginalised region. By FATHI NASRI (AFP)

Tunisian protesters shut valve blocking key oil pi...

Jul 17, 2020

Protesters demanding jobs in Tunisia's marginalised south have blocked a key pipeline carrying half the country's oil pr ...

Elyes Fakhfakh became Tunisian prime minister in February after months of deadlock. By FETHI BELAID (AFP)

Tunisia risks fresh political deadlock as PM resig...

Jul 16, 2020

Tunisia's prime minister quit Wednesday after less than five months in office, threatening fresh political deadlock as t ...

Elyes Fakhfakh became Tunisian prime minister in February after months of deadlock. By FETHI BELAID (AFP/File)

Tunisia PM resigns after political row

Jul 15, 2020

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned on Wednesday, according to two official sources who did not want to be n ...

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh speaks during a parliament session in Tunis. By FETHI BELAID (AFP)

Tunisia's Ennahdha party seeks government change

Jul 13, 2020

Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, the largest in parliament, called Monday for consultations to appoint a new ...

Taheyya has been trying to repatriate her three-year-old granddaughter and two grandsons, aged five and six. By Caroline Nelly PERROT (AFP)

Tunisian families battle to repatriate children of...

Jul 12, 2020

Over WhatsApp from Tunisia, Taheyya has watched her grandchildren grow up in Syria, where her son joined a jihadist grou ...

Forensic scientists in the coastal Tunisian city of Sfax have gathered photos, medical data and other information on those aboard a migrant boat that capsized off the Tunisian coast in early June, leaving no survivors. By Hamdi ZAGHDANE (AFP)

Identifying migrants who died at sea meticulous wo...

Jul 5, 2020

The identity of dozens of migrants who drowned off Tunisia last month might have been lost without a trace, like thousan ...

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh speaks during a parliamentary session on Thursday. By FETHI BELAID (AFP)

Tunisia premier says virus hit economy to contract...

Jun 25, 2020

Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh warned Thursday that his country's economy, hit hard by the global coronavirus pa ...

Tunisian protesters clashed with security forces as they demonstrated in the southern city of Tataouine in recent days. By FATHI NASRI (AFP/File)

Tunisia protest figure released after new clashes ...

Jun 24, 2020

A protest leader in southern Tunisia was released Wednesday, a lawyer said, four days after his arrest amid angry protes ...

Tunisia protesters, police clash anew in deprived ...

Jun 24, 2020

Tunisian youths clashed with police overnight in a town in Tunisia's deprived south, where a protest movement is demandi ...

Tunisian protesters clash with security forces as they demonstrate in the southern city of Tataouine demanding authorities make good on a 2017 promise to provide jobs in the gas and oil sector. By FATHI NASRI (AFP)

Renewed clashes in Tunisia's deprived south

Jun 22, 2020

Protesters demanding jobs and the release of an activist in Tunisia's marginalised south clashed Monday with security fo ...

Demonstrators set tyres ablaze in Tataouine and pelted security forces with stones. By FATHI NASRI (AFP)

Tunisians protesting over jobs clash with police a...

Jun 21, 2020

Protesters demanding jobs in Tunisia's energy sector blocked roads with blazing tyres on Sunday after the arrest of an a ...

Thousands of Tunisian public health workers protested in front of the health ministry in the capital Tunis. By FETHI BELAID (AFP)

Tunisian healthcare workers strike to demand refor...

Jun 18, 2020

Several thousand Tunisian healthcare workers launched a general strike Thursday and protested in the capital to demand b ...

Calligraphy in Tunisia lacks the prominence it enjoys in some other Arab countries. By FETHI BELAID (AFP)

Tunisia rediscovers traditional art of calligraphy

Jun 18, 2020

Tunisia's president has become a surprise champion of Arabic calligraphy in his country, shining a light on the artistic ...

Tunisian workers remove a migrant's body recovered after a previous shipwreck in July 2019. By FATHI NASRI (AFP/File)

More than 50 dead in migrant shipwreck off Tunisia

Jun 12, 2020

More than 50 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, died when a boat carrying migrants bound for Italy sank off Tunisia ...

Tunisian feminist Bochra Belhaj Hmida has stepped away from politics but remains engaged on questions of gender roles in Tunisian society. By FETHI BELAID (AFP/File)

A World Redrawn: Re-think gender roles, says Tunis...

May 28, 2020

During Tunisia's coronavirus lockdown, feminist activist and former lawmaker Bochra Belhaj Hmida has been worrying about ...

Tunisian football to restart in August behind clos...

May 27, 2020

The Tunisian football championship will resume its season, in August behind closed doors, the Tunisian football federat ...

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