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Africa: Tunisia

Tunisians shop for vegetables in the capital's central market.  By FETHI BELAID AFP

Tunisian economic crisis mutes build-up to Ramadan

Mar 9, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

Tunisians are bracing themselves for more subdued celebrations during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as an economic cr ...

Mar 4, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

Tunisian civil society groups fear the government is planning to starve them of foreign funding under the pretext of fig ...

Mar 2, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

Thousands protested deteriorating living standards outside the prime minister's office in Tunis on Saturday following a ...

Feb 23, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

A Tunisian imam expelled from France for alleged hate speech said on Friday he would take legal action in a bid to overt ...

Feb 23, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

French authorities on Thursday expelled a Tunisian imam accused of preaching hatred against women and Jews, Interior Min ...

Feb 23, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

The Tunisian town of Haffouz lies in an impoverished region known for high rates of joblessness and suicide, but every F ...

Feb 21, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

Families of several jailed Tunisian opposition figures on Wednesday called for their release, including a number of deta ...

Feb 19, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

France's Interior Minister has asked for a Tunisian imam to be stripped of his French residence permit, after authoritie ...

Feb 2, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

Rached Ghannouchi, the jailed leader of the Tunisian opposition party Ennahda, has been sentenced to another three years ...

Jan 31, 2024 | Africa: Tunisia

At a fertility clinic in Tunis, Bintou Yunoussa hopes doctors can finally help her conceive -- one of more than two mill ...

Dec 17, 2023 | Africa: Tunisia

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hailed Italian premier Giorgia Meloni's approach to tackling illegal migration Saturd ...

Dec 16, 2023 | Africa: Tunisia

A section of the historic walls around the Old City of Kairouan collapsed on Saturday, killing three masons carrying out ...

Nov 13, 2023 | Africa: Tunisia

A crowd has gathered to see off Rose, a loggerhead sea turtle, who labours across the Tunisian sand to rejoin the waters ...

Oct 31, 2023 | Africa: Tunisia

The leader of Tunisian opposition party Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, 82, had his jail sentence on terrorism-related char ...