Tunisia

Nidaa Tounes (Call for Tunisia), which attained the highest number of votes in the legislative elections, public acknowledgment that it is "an extension of the [ousted President Zine El-Abidine)...

The leader of Ennahda Islamic movement Rachid Ghannouchi has said that Ennahda will never allow the return of the "idols" of autocratic one-party rule, rigged elections or corruption. In...

Below are excerpts from head of Tunisia's Ennahda party Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi's speech at the group's headquarters in Tunis yesterday "Our hearts are filled with love for Allah, love...

Secular Call of Tunisia is expected to be asked by the Tunisian president to form the country's new government after preliminary results showed it in the lead in a...

The spoils of the falling Arab Spring have been divided among many. If the most obvious beneficiaries have been the old guard, Arab autocrats and their foreign allies, who...

Three days before the Election Day one policeman was killed and another wounded in an exchange of fire between security forces and Islamist militants in Oued Ellil, a suburb...

Mustapha Ben Jaafar, the president of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, has said that foreign intervention in Libya would only deepen the crisis in that country and called upon...

The former leader of Tunisia's Ennahda party Rashid Ghannouchi will be awarded the Ibn Rushd Prize 2014 on December 5 in Berlin, event organisers announced. In a press release...

The head of Tunisia's Ennahda movement, Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, said that Ennahda is expecting to win about 41 per cent of the vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections, slated for...

The Nidaa Tounes (Call of Tunisia) is counting on winning 70 to 80 seats, of a possible 217, in the upcoming parliament, the party's leader and head of Beji...

The Tunisian Foreign Minister, Manji Hamidi, has said that the on-going crisis in Libya has huge repercussions for his country, including economic, political and security consequences, Anadolu news agency...

An observatory centre said on Friday that there were 252 violations against journalists in Tunis in the period between October 2013 and September 2014. The Tunis Centre of Press...

The chairperson of the Call of Tunisia Party and presidential candidate, Beji Caid Essebsi, said that: "The situations in Tunisia has retreated during the past three years more than...

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...