A Tunisian court jailed seven people for life on Saturday for their involvement in two deadly militant attacks in 2015, one on a museum in Tunis and the other...

Tunisia has been ranked top of the freedom index in the Arab world in 2018. Tunisia – which ignited the Arab Spring in 2011 – was described by US...

The government of Tunisia has settled on a deal with the influential UGTT union to raise the wages of 670,000 public employees, Reuters reported today. The deal comes following...

A source close to the Tunisian Ennahda told Quds Press International News Agency that the head of the movement, Rached Ghannouchi, plans to run for the presidential elections scheduled...

Moroccan media reported that a meeting of the African Masonic Movement was held last weekend in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, during which the issues of freedom, education and...

The final report of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has called for reforms to prevent the recurrence of human rights violations, as well as compensation for the victims of...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has said that the Palestinian issue will be a “top priority” on the agenda of the upcoming Arab summit. Since the summit is due...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has lost a lawsuit he filed against a Tunisian citizen in 2014, in which he accused the citizen of inciting against him and his...

Former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki accused the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia of being “part of an octopus that works to bring the old regime back to power,...

With the approaching parliamentary and presidential elections, attention is directed towards Tunisia, the source of the Arab revolutions, amid fears of the reluctance of young people to participate in...

The former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki called on Ennahda Movement to agree with him and end its old agreement with Nidaa Tounes in preparation for the upcoming general elections,...

Protesters in Sudan are trying to imitate the Arab Spring uprisings that shook the region in 2011, President Omar al-Bashir said on Sunday during a visit to Egypt, Reuters reports....

The formation of Tahya Tounes (Long Live Tunisia), a new political party close to the current Head of Government Youssef Chahed, was announced on Sunday. Around 4,000 people attended...

A group of Tunisian women have used social media sites to call for a protest demanding polygamy. Polygamy is a taboo issue in Tunisia and a crime punishable by...

Rashid Al-Khayari, a Tunisian blogger and the owner of Essada website, accused the UAE of attempting to lure him and assassinate him in Tunisia on the backdrop of revealing...

Tunisian teachers protest work conditions

Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries early this decade, forcing people to flee, researchers said on Wednesday, publishing evidence they said...

The Tunisian currency stabilised yesterday near its lowest level in history against the US dollar due to tension between the government and the Tunisian General Labour Union and the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was seeking to “destabilise” Tunisia, the country’s former president, Moncef Marzouki, warned on Sunday. “We reaffirm that we sense the existence of a conspiracy against...

Tens of thousands of Tunisian students staged protests on Monday to demand an end to an ongoing teachers’ strike, reports Anadolu Agency. On January 9, preparatory and secondary school...

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union called on Saturday for another national strike for two days next month to press its demand for higher wages for 670,000 public servants, the UGTT...

The German parliament’s lower house approved on Friday a contentious law to limit asylum applications from Georgia and three Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, Reuters reports. Some 509...

Rail, bus and air traffic stopped in Tunisia today as the powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) staged a one-day nationwide strike to protest against the government’s refusal to...

A German court ruled on Wednesday that a suspected Islamist militant who was deported to Tunisia in July must not be returned to Germany, saying it no longer believed...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is facing a lawsuit which accuses him of exceeding his powers by granting an amnesty to a high-profile prisoner in contravention of the country’s...

Tunisian Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi has described the issue of diplomatic normalization with Israel as a “sensitive matter”. Trabelsi, a Jewish Tunisian businessman who was recently given the government’s...

Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi warned on Monday that the country’s democratic experience is not in a safe situation, Anadolu has reported. He also warned of the risks of...

Supporters of Nahda Movement attend a rally marking the eighth anniversary of "Arab Spring" at Habib Burgiba Street in the capital Tunis

Remembering the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia 8 years on

They've called on democratic and civil society organisations in Tunisia to join the BDS movement

Tunisia has passed the death sentence on 41 terrorists found guilty of an attack that killed 15 soldiers in June, 2014. The attack took place in the Mount Chaambi...

The leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party has said that the movement will participate in this year’s presidential elections, Anadolu has reported. Rached Ghannouchi insisted, though, that he is not...