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Tunisia made it again
Kais Saiid is Tunisia new president, He won in the runoff election by landscape The one country you can see the Arab spring still hanging on 75% of voters chose Saiid, a low-profile law professor [ More … ]
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Exit polls project Tunisian landslide win for independent Kais Saied
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 … ]
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Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui through to 2nd. round in Tunisia’s presidential election
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 … ]
Analysis
Things to know about Tunisia’s presidential election
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 … ]
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Tunisia declares mourning period after the death of President Essebsi
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 … ]
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Bin Salman arrives in Egypt on third leg of Arab tour amid Khashoggi murder scandal
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Egypt on Monday, continuing his first trip abroad since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul drew global condemnation. Saudi Arabia’s Crown [ More … ]
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Tunisian minister of finance resigns over court case
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 … ]
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Tunisia: Opposition parties demand postponing elections
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 … ]
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Tunisian parliamentary delegation visits Syria, meets Bashar Al-Assad
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 … ]
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Tunis: 35 customs officers to appear before disciplinary council
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 … ]
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Tunisia-IMF: more rigorous measures to achieve economic transition
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 … ]
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Tunisian dinar falls to lowest rate in years
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 … ]
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Tunisia: UK Lifts Two-Year Travel Ban, Boosting Tunisian Tourism
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 … ]
Saudi Arabia News
Eight agreements and MoU between Tunisia and Saudi Arabia inked
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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Tunisia passes law to ‘end all violence’ against women
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 … ]