Tunisian police used tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters who blocked roads in the southern town of Jelma on Saturday following the death of a young man who burned himself to death, witnesses said. [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
Arab interior ministers on Wednesday met for their 34th session in Tunis, Tunisia, under the patronage of President Beji Caid Essebsi. The Saudi delegation was led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, honorary president of [ More … ]
Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an uprising calling for more freedoms in the North African country. The 2011 revolution that toppled [ More … ]
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal arrived Thursday, in Tunis, to co-chair with his Tunisian counterpart Toussed Chahed, the works of the 21st session of the Algerian-Tunisian High Joint Commission. Upon his arrival at Tunis airport, [ More … ]
Tunis will host urgent meeting of Egyptian and Algerian ministers today to discuss the Libyan crisis. Algerian, Egyptian and Tunisian foreign ministers have advanced by nine days their planned talks on the Libyan crisis and [ More … ]
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