Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has asked Morocco to join a three-country bid with Portugal to host the 2030 World Cup, Spanish El Pais newspaper reported yesterday. The Spanish...

Women who were subjected to torture in Tunisian prisons and interrogation centres yesterday appeared in the country’s “transitional justice” trials as part of the Truth and Dignity Commission. On...

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The Tunisian Assembly of the Representatives of People voted last Monday, to accept a broad cabinet reshuffle proposed by the Head of the Government Youssef Chahed, although President Beji...

Five members of Tunisia’s Nidaa Tounes party have been sacked by their group, the head of the bloc announced yesterday. No reasons were given for the dismissals however the...

Tunisian Head of Government Youssef Chahed said on Monday that the government’s reshuffle he made a week ago was aimed at putting an end to the political crisis in...

The chief editor of Tunisia’s Al-Horria newspaper, Tawfiq Al-Awni, yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Saudi ambassador to Tunisia, Mohammed Bin Mahmoud Al–Ali, and the director of his office...

Nothing was new in the press conference held by President Beji Caid Essebsi last Thursday afternoon regarding style or content except his pointing out to the existence of a...

The Tunisian Ennahda Movement condemned on Thursday attempts to “ignite conflict” between it and the president of the country, Beji Caid Essebsi, against the background of its position on...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said today he was ready to swear in ten new ministers named in a reshuffle that he had originally rejected, easing a high-level political...

Nidaa Tounes yesterday described a ministerial reshuffle in Tunisia as “a coup against the constitution and democracy in the country”. Secretary-General of Nidaa Tounes Slim Riahi said in a...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has decided to extend the countrywide state of emergency for an additional month starting 7 November, the presidency announced yesterday. “Following consultations on the...

Palestinian group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, has welcomed a Tunisian court ruling banning the entry of an Israeli delegation into Tunisia. The delegation was scheduled to take...

The leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, yesterday reiterated his commitment to Youssef Chahed’s position as the head of government, but called for a cabinet reshuffle “as soon...

Tunisia’s economic woes are under scrutiny after the government revealed that a suicide blast committed by a woman earlier this week was an “isolated act” committed after years of...

The Tunisian military court yesterday sentenced parliamentarian and blogger Yassine Ayari to three months in prison for “insulting” the military establishment. Ayari said on Facebook that he has ten...

The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was “a victim of political violence against journalists,” the head of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, said yesterday, expressing his regret over what he...

The Ennahda Party, as a partner in Tunisia’s Unity Government, has condemned the terrorist attack in Habib Bourguiba Avenue yesterday which wounded 15 people including ten police officers. “Following...

A woman blew herself up yesterday in the centre of the Tunisian capital of Tunis near a police patrol, the country’s interior ministry has reported. The ministry’s spokesperson, Sofiene...

Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda movement in Tunisia, has compared the repercussions of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination to the worldwide reaction ignited by Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in...

In the Old city of Tunis, puppets silently stand guard... Take a journey through the marketplace, and discover the tale of the Karakuz...

Tunisia’s Action Against Exclusion and Marginalisation Association has launched a new project which aims to rehabilitate and integrate youth prisoners into society and professional life and protect them from...

When the young Tunisian man, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself alight in protest against the municipal authorities in Sidi Bouzid confiscating his fruit cart from which he made living in...

The team representing Tunisian politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi who were assassinated in 2013 have accused the Ennahda movement of forming a “secret security apparatus” linked to the...

The Tunisian government has allocated 55 million Tunisian dinars ($19.48m) to support rural women in the country and to encourage their productivity and the creation of small enterprises. This...

Najib Ayyad, Head of the 29th Carthage Film Festival, said that 206 films from 47 Arab and foreign countries would be screened during the festival. The Carthage Film Festival...

The Tunisian government has announced that it will not impose new taxes on companies and citizens in the 2019 budget. This came in the draft budget for 2019 which...

The independent “Soumoud” (Resilience) coalition rejected Monday, a proposal by the Tunisian president to amend the electoral law to raise the electoral threshold to 5 per cent, starting with the...

Tunisian Minister of State Property and Real Estate Affairs, Mabrouk Korshid, handed over 242 hectares (598 acres) of state-owned land to unemployed Tunisian youths, Tunisian news website Arrakmia.com reported on Friday. During a visit...

British tourists who survived the Tunisia terror attack in 2015 are suing the UK’s largest tour operator TUI, which sold packages for the beach hotel targeted by militants. More...

Abdelhak Al Khayam, head of Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), a security apparatus specialised in terrorist crimes inquiry, revealed that since 2002 Morocco has dismantled 183 terrorist cells that sought to carry out...

Tunisia’s trade deficit rose during the first nine months of this year to reach more than 14 billion Tunisian dinars ($5 billion), according to a report published by Tunisia’s State Statistics...