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 … ]
Tunisia’s parliament on Wednesday passed a bill designed to “end all violence against women,” strengthening protection and help for victims in a move welcomed by rights groups. “It’s a very moving moment and we are [ More … ]
The Tunisian parliament has rejected a petition to restore diplomatic relations with the Syrian regime. Sixty-eight lawmakers voted in favour of the petition, 27 abstained and six rejected the petition, which needed 109 votes to [ More … ]
BY: Ian Bremmer* In Tunisia, change came gradually and then suddenly. When a police officer confiscated the goods of an unlicensed vegetable seller in December 2010, the merchant drenched himself in gasoline and set himself [ More … ]
Tunisia is proceeding with a war on corruption, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said on Thursday, adding that it is neither “selective, nor personal with political rivals.” The government has been assuming its responsibility in the [ More … ]
Police arrested Friday a man suspected of stabbing a German mother and daughter as they visited the crafts market in the Tunisian town of Nabeul. A man described as “mentally disturbed” has stabbed and wounded [ More … ]
A Tunisian court on Wednesday ordered the assets and property of the head of the opposition Free Patriotic Union, Slim Riahi, be frozen on suspicion of money laundering. A spokesman for the Public Prosecutor’s Office [ More … ]
During the 19th session of the High Joint Commission of Morocco and Tunisia held in Rabat June 18 and 19, representatives of Morocco and Tunisia signed nine cooperation agreements in different fields. In the presence [ More … ]
Tunisia is backing Turkey’s role as a mediator in the efforts to ease the Gulf-Qatar crisis, Foreign Minister Khamis Al-Jahnawi announced yesterday. The Turkish government is also seeking ways to resolve the crisis in Libya, [ More … ]
Tunisia plans to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the island of Djerba, site of Africa’s oldest synagogue and an annual Jewish pilgrimage, its culture minister said on Sunday. Speaking on the last day of [ More … ]
Proposed law gives amnesty to businessmen accused of corruption under ousted president Ben Ali. More than 2,000 Tunisians marched in the country’s capital protesting a proposed amnesty bill that would see businessmen accused of corruption [ More … ]
Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi on Wednesday ordered the army to protect phosphate, gas and oil production facilities after protests aimed at disrupting output broke out in the south of the country. It is the [ More … ]
Two members of a shady Islamist group with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group were killed in a Sunday raid in Sidi Bouzeid, 200 km south-west of Tunis. Tunisian security officials killed two [ More … ]
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