Rival Heart of Tunisia supports Ghannouchi’s election and appears likely to join a coalition government with Ennahdha. Tunisia‘s new parliament on Wednesday elected Ennahdha party’s Rached Ghannouchi as its speaker after the rival Heart of Tunisia party backed [ More … ]
Independent candidate Kais Saied won a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election in Tunisia, two exit polls projected, although no official results had yet been announced, reported Reuters. Saied, a retired law professor with conservative [ More … ]
Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui, two anti-establishment candidates in Tunisia’s divisive presidential election said Sunday to have won through to a run-off, hours after polling closed in the country’s second free presidential poll since the [ More … ]
Tunisians head to the polls on September 15 to elect a new president in the second such vote since the 2011 revolution. When President Beji Caid Essebsi died in late July, three months before his [ More … ]
Parliament Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur sworn in as interim president; country to hold presidential vote on September 15. The Tunisian government has declared seven days of mourning following the death of Beji Caid Essebsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, as [ More … ]
Demonstrations in several areas over death of Abderrazk Zorgui who killed himself on Monday in protest over poor living conditions Clashes between protesters and security forces in an impoverished Tunisian city where a journalist burned [ More … ]
Interior ministry spokesman General Sufyan al-Zaq says a border patrol struck a mine before being opened fire upon Six members of Tunisia’s security forces were killed on Sunday in a “terrorist attack” near the border [ More … ]
Tunisian interim Minister of Finance Fadhel Abdelkafi announced his resignation as he prepares for a court case next month over alleged illegal financial transactions. Tunisia’s prime minister accepted the resignation on Friday of interim finance [ More … ]
The acting head of Tunisia’s electoral commission Anouar Ben Hassen has refused demands made by opposition parties to postpone the municipal elections, which will be held in December. This was revealed during a meeting in [ More … ]
A Tunisian parliamentary delegation embarked on a nine-day visit to the Syrian capital of Damascus on 4 August, for meeting with Syrian senior officials, according to Tunisia news website. A delegation of Tunisian MPs Friday [ More … ]
Tunisia’s Ministry of Finance has ordered 35 custom officers to appear before a disciplinary council for “professional misconduct,” Anadolu reported on Friday. At a press briefing held in Tunis, the head of Tunisia’s Customs Union, [ More … ]
A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is conducting a mission to Tunisia from Wednesday July 26 to August 3, 2017 to assess the economic progress and discuss with the Tunisian authorities the progress [ More … ]
The Tunisian dinar fell to its lowest rate in years trading at 2.83 against the euro and 2.412 against the US dollar. Authorities explained the decline saying that Tunisia did not receive the last instalment [ More … ]
About 3.5 million tourists have visited Tunisia up to July, said Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts Selma Elloumi Rekik. Tunisia managed to recover traditional markets, such as France. The lifting by the UK of the [ More … ]
Eight financing and partnership agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoU), focusing on economic, cultural, religious and health sectors, were signed Thursday between the Tunisian and Saudi Governments on the sidelines of the 9th Tunisian-Saudi Joint [ More … ]
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