Tunisia

The leader of the Ennahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, surprised everyone when he said that his party was ready to form a coalition government including many parties and that it...

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has reportedly said that "pretending guardianship over the Palestinians" is an "unacceptable rudeness". Speaking during a conference on the political and legal tracks for the...

There has been no government decision to impose entry fees on Tunisians wishing to enter Libya, a foreign ministry official said. In remarks to the Anadolu news agency yesterday,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi suggested the Algerian president class the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, and eliminate them, but this was refused, the leader of Tunisia's Ennahda movement...

Tunisia's interim president Moncef Marzouki has called for international legal action against Israeli leaders over the "massacres" that Israel recently committed against the Palestinians in the latest war against...

The Independent High Authority for the Election announced that it approved the candidacy documents of 27 persons and rejected 41 applicants for the upcoming presidential election. Speaking at a...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW "I am a proud feminist," says young Ennahda candidate Sayida Ounissi, who wants to be the voice of Tunisian youth. She tells MEMO about what it's like...

What is going on in the Arab world is a conflict between the will to change and efforts to return to "autocratic and authoritarian" regimes, the leader of the...

The leader of Tunisia's Congress for the Republic Party has vowed that he will increase economic growth by 6.5 per cent over the next 5 years if he wins...

Turkey is ready to provide $200 million to finance development projects in Tunisia, the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The announcement came in a meeting, held in New...

The opportunity for candidates to put themselves forward for the presidential elections ended yesterday with dozens of figures from various ideological and political spectrums stepping up to the plate,...

The number of presidential candidates running for Tunisia presidential elections scheduled for November has risen to 24 people two days before the deadline of nominations. Among the candidates are...

  Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki said Saturday he will seek re-election during the country's upcoming presidential election slated for November 23. "I have applied to defend...

A senior Tunisian official has denied that the visit of Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal is aimed at discussing his residency in Tunis with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki. Anwar Al-Gharbi,...

The Tunisian Initiative Party has announced the nomination of its chairman Kamal Morgan to the 2014 presidential elections, the Deutsche Presse Agentur reported. Morgan was the last foreign minister...

Some political parties in Tunisia expressed their great anger at the nomination of the Nedaa Tounes Party leader Beji Caid El-Sebsi for the presidential elections scheduled to be held...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement stated on Sunday that it will not compete in the upcoming presidential election because it is unwilling to extend its dominance over more state institutions, Alamat...

The Tunisian Nahda movement said it rejects any foreign intervention in Libya and called on rival Libyan troops to unite and renounce violence. The leader of Nahda, Rashid Al-Ghannouchi,...

The Chairman of the Bakeries Chamber in the Tunisian governorate of Sfax Jamal Al- Ammouri has said that more than 100 bakeries stopped working on Thursday and nearly 100...

The Tunisian Ennahda movement, a moderate Islamist political party, said that its leader Rached Ghannouchi will act as a mediator between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas. The decision is...

The Tunisian Ennahda movement, a moderate Islamist political party, said that its leader Rached Ghannouchi will act as a mediator between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas. The decision is...

The Tunisian Ennahda movement called on Thursday for the prosecution of "Zionist war criminals" before international courts over the latest Israeli onslaught on Gaza. In a statement quoted by...

Tunisia's Ennahda said on Monday that 33 electoral lists, carrying 217 candidates, would be representing the movement in the parliamentary elections scheduled for October. In a press conference held...

The leader of Tunisia's Islamic Renaissance Party, Ennahdah, Rachid Ghannouchi, started an official visit on Sunday to neighbouring Algeria, at the invitation of President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Anadolu news agency...

The Tunisian ministry of transportation decided on Thursday to indefinitely suspend all flights from three Libyan cities for security reasons, Reuters news agency reported. Flights were cancelled from the...

"Radical change is necessary," says the determined blogger Azyz Amami, who is devoting his life to the reform of the former regimes' security sector legacy, one of Tunisia's biggest...

The International Crisis Group, administered by the Tunisian government, yesterday froze the activities of 157 NGOs from a total of 18,000 working in the country. Government Spokesman Nidal Ourfali...

Tunisian president Moncef Al-Marzouqi received on Friday a Hamas delegation, headed by Hamas official Ismail Ridwan, in Tunis. Ridwan updated the Tunisian President on the latest developments on the...

Tunisia's Ennahda party leader Rachid Ghannouchi called on Wednesday for the Tunisian Parliament to pass a law "criminalising the glorification of the former regime of ousted President Ben Ali",...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement denounced on Thursday what it described as "the crime of displacing Christians from the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq, and emptying the city of an...

Dozens of Tunisian citizens and supporters of a number of political parties and associations arranged a protest, on Tuesday, in front of the headquarters of the United Nations in...

Egypt denied reports concerning its intention to launch a military operation in Libya to confront a surge in Islamist militant activity in its neighbouring country, the Anadolu news agency...