Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will discuss with the heads of the parties and organisations participating in drafting the Carthage 2 document if Prime Minister Youssef Chahed will continue...

A 62-year-old Tunisian man who has been living in a cave on the outskirts of the town of Testour for 30 years will be housed by the local council....

Tunisia yesterday signed a €82 million ($96 million) loan agreement with Germany’s KfW Development Bank to finance a water project, the Anadolu Agency reported. The agreement was signed by...

Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia have joined forces to reject foreign interference in Libya’s internal affairs. “Foreign interference undermines the country’s political process, prolongs the crisis and threatens security and...

A private Tunisian TV channel has gone ahead with the broadcast of a controversial hidden camera exposé programme. “Shalom” tackles the issue of normalisation with the Israeli occupation, Quds...

Tunisia’s Justice Minister said on Thursday that the government intends to review the anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering laws in line with domestic and international legislation. “The review comes due...

On Thursday, the Bosnian court rejected  the Tunisian government’s request for the extradition of a Bosnian national it said he was involved in the killing of the Hamas activist,...

On Tuesday, the Tunisian judiciary sentenced in absentia the former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to life imprisonment on the charge of pre-mediated murder in cases related to...

Tunisia’s revenues from tourism rose 30.8 per cent in the first four months of 2018, the country’s Minister for Development, Investment and International Cooperation Zied Ladhari said. Tourism, industry,...

Tunisian and foreign organizations refused to suspend the work of the Truth and Dignity Commission, Monday, calling on civil society to mobilize in order to protect the transitional justice...

The main  Tunisian labour union is considering responding to the US’s decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by preventing US ships from using Tunisian ports. According...

The results of the survey conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies showed that 74 per cent of the respondents in 11 Arab countries support democracy,...

The European Union Election Observation Mission in Tunisia stated on Tuesday that the polls are considered as a “historic step” toward the establishment of the country’s decentralisation. The head...

On Monday, Anis Jarboui, a member of the Tunisian Independent High Authority for Elections, said, “we have not yet received data on the provision and distribution of political funds during...

Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party claimed victory late on Sunday in the country’s first free municipal elections, a key step in a democratic transition marred by economic disappointment. After polling...

Tunisia has been hailed as the only democratic success of the Arab Spring because it toppled a long-serving autocrat, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in 2011

The leader of the Tunisian Journalists’ Syndicate has accused political groups of having a “tendency” to deny press freedom. Naji Baghouri made his comments during a seminar on the...

Tunisia yesterday announced the arrest of a man who is suspected of taking part in the assassination of aerospace engineer Mohammed Al-Zawari in December 2016. The suspect was held in...

When the Arab revolutions began in Tunisia in 2010, political scientists called them by many names, based on their backgrounds and what message they wanted to convey by the...

The US and Libya’s Government of National Accord led by Fayez Al-Sarraj signed a security cooperation agreement last week in Tunisia. The agreement, signed between Charge d’Affaires to Libya,...

Tunisian security and military forces yesterday voted in the municipal elections for the first time in decades. The Tunisian Independent High Authority for Elections called on all security and...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) denounced the continued impunity for torture and ill-treatment in Tunisia. The Geneva-based non-governmental organisation blamed the Tunisian government for allowing this impunity. Anadolu...

On Tuesday, several Tunisian organisations stressed the need achieve transitional justice in order to “to avoid a serious setback in the transition towards a democratic political order.” This came...

Two military men were killed in a military plane crash on Monday evening in an area adjacent to the air base in Tunisia’s Sfax state, Tunisia’s state TAP news...

The governing commission of the Tunisian General Labour Union will hold a meeting on Monday to support the secondary education sector. While well-informed Tunisian labour union sources have ruled...

Tunisia has reopened its consulate in the Libyan capital, the Libya foreign ministry said on Saturday, the latest mission to return to Tripoli. Most embassies left Tripoli in 2014...

The closure of Tunisian media outlets and the expulsion of journalists working for them, most recently the private newspaper Assarih, caused a great deal of anger among Tunisian media...

The Moroccan-US joint military training, known as the African Lion Manoeuvres 2018, have been launched in Morocco under the orders of King Mohammed VI and will continue until April...

Head of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi has predicted that there would be an intense competition, which he described as “peaceful war”, during the first municipal elections since...

The Tunisian General Labour Union (the largest trade union organization in the country) has blamed the government for the deterioration of the Tunisian economy. Samir Al-Shafi, Assistant Secretary-General of the...

Tunisia has failed to take steps to abolish its law on the death penalty, Amnesty International said in its latest report. Since the early 1990s, no death sentences have...

Some 90 per cent of Tunisians have not bought a book in the last year, a significant rise from the 82 per cent reported in 2016, according to a...