Tunisia

Tunisians vote in local elections on Sunday to fill a new chamber as economy flatlines

Butter and milk shortages. Political party boycotts. Ongoing prosecutions of the president’s critics. This is the environment in which Tunisians will head to the polls on Sunday for the country’s…

Tunisian dissent leader gets 1 yr jail in absentia

May 16, 2023

A Tunisian judge on Tuesday sentenced in absentia opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, to a year in prison on charges of incitement, his lawyer…

Tunisians ration Water in State-Ordered Ban

April 19, 2023

Tunisia will cut off water supplies to citizens for seven hours a night in response to the country’s worst drought on record, state water distribution company SONEDE said in a…

Syria, Tunisia move to restore diplomatic ties

April 18, 2023

Syria’s top diplomat is on a three-day official visit to Tunisia to restore diplomatic ties broken since 2012 during the civil war that followed President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on…

Tunisia’s new migrant rules after racist abuse

March 6, 2023

African governments have evacuated hundreds of their citizens from Tunisia in recent days after migrants, foreign students and others recounted racist abuse in the streets and online. The tensions erupted…

Protesters march, denounce racism in Tunisia

February 25, 2023

The African Union (AU) has criticized Tunisia and urged it to avoid “racialized hate speech” following President Kais Saied’s comments directed at migrants from elsewhere on the continent. Saied ordered…

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Kais Saied’s Racist Statements Against Africans

February 24, 2023

What does Kais Saied’s racist statements hide? The sequence of the xenophobic and authoritarian thoughts harbored in the mind of the President of Tunisia Kais Saied climaxed when he made…

Tunisia orders EU trade union official expelled

February 19, 2023

Thousands of members of Tunisia’s powerful UGTT trade union took to the streets of eight cities on Saturday to protest against President Kais Saied’s policies, accusing him of trying to…

Elections spotlights Tunisia’s troubled democracy

January 29, 2023

Tunisian polling stations were quiet on Sunday for run-offs in a parliamentary election that drew only 11% turnout in December’s first round, an outcome critics of the president said undermined…

Kais Saied Misses Tunisia’s Economic Opportunity

September 1, 2022

Kais Saied Misses Tunisia’s Economic Opportunity After President Kais Saied of Tunisia met with the head of the Polisario Front, Morocco recalled its ambassador to Tunis for consultations.Morocco made the…

Tunisia: Did Kais Saied Turn Against Democracy?

August 31, 2022

Tunisia: Did Kais Saied Turn Against Democracy? The Tunisian people nor its youth, who led the Jasmine Revolution in 2011, never expected that a day would come for their country…

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