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 … ]
North African nation may be heading for new parliamentary elections over its inability to form a government. Tunisia‘s Ennahdha party has rejected a new government proposal that excludes other parties and is open to contest another [ More … ]
Turkish leader’s visit comes as Ankara moves to strike deals with Mediterranean nations Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Tunisia on a surprise visit for talks with his Tunisian counterpart, Kais Saied, his [ More … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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