Tunisian demonstrators in Tunis chanted ‘the people want the coup to fail’ and called for restoration of parliament Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets in the capital, Tunis, on Saturday to protest against President [ More … ]
Tunisian president was reportedly driven by feud with party elites to seize reins of power in the country, according to Reuters. As he was driven to an urgently scheduled national security meeting with the president, [ More … ]
The West’s silence regarding the situation in Tunisia shows their support for autocratic regimes including those in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who stand behind the coup, former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said in an [ More … ]
Social media accounts have circulated details of an Islamic State (IS) publication celebrating the coup carried out by Tunisian President Kais Saied. The terrorist organization considers that Saied’s action constitutes a setback for the democratic [ More … ]
Egypt and UAE security officials who accompanied the coup were at the Tunisian Presidential Palace when Tunisian PM beaten until he resigned The American ambassador to Tunisia, Donald Bloom, has reportedly asked President Kais Saeid [ More … ]
The prominent academic stated in a post on his Facebook account “some important figures in the context of the Tunisian crisis” related to Ennahda Movement. In the context of the Tunisian crisis, Khalil Al-Anani, an [ More … ]
M. O. Jones, an academic, has analyzed the UAE, Saudi-launched hashtag to defame the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, proving that the hashtag was fake and tendentious. Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin [ More … ]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the government and frozen the parliament in one of Tunisia’s biggest political crises since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy. President accused of attack on Tunisian democracy after sacking [ More … ]
On 19 April, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed to Kenya to kick off an African tour, including six African countries, that is South Africa, Senegal, DR Congo, Tunisia and the Comoros. during which, he [ More … ]
A few days ago, Kais Saied said his powers as commander of the armed forces also cover the internal security forces, in latest escalation of dispute with Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi Tunisian President Kais Saied [ More … ]
Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has criticised what he considered to be a “fight for power” in the country between the president and the parliament, warning that this would negatively affect the country’s stability. In [ More … ]
More than 200 people were arrested after “riots” targeting public and private property in Tunisia, according to an official in the Tunisian Ministry of Interior. An official in the Tunisian Ministry of Interior said yesterday [ More … ]
Mechichi, former legal adviser to President Kais Saied, replaces Elyes Fakhfakh, who quit after a no-confidence motion in his leadership Hichem Mechichi has been appointed as Tunisia’s PM designate in order to form the country’s [ More … ]
After just five months in office, Tunisia’s Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh has called it a day. His resignation came on the heels of a political scandal that has seen critics. Most notably the Ennahdha party accuse [ More … ]
The Tunisian Ennahda Movement’s Vice President Abdelfattah Mourou has announced that he will retire “definitively” from political work and return to his former career as a lawyer. In statements to Tunisian media, Mourou disclosed that [ More … ]
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