Moncef Marzouki

The President of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, has accepted an invitation from Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to visit the Gaza Strip, it has been announced in Tunis. President Marzouki...

A troika of political leaders in Tunisia has pledged to draft a new constitution and stand up against counter-revolutionary forces at a ceremony to commemorate the 55th anniversary of...

The Egyptian ambassador to Palestine, Yasser Othman, confirmed on Monday that Egypt's intention to lift the Gaza siege completely is still on the new President's agenda. "It is an...

Tunisia's new President, Moncef Marzouki, has arrived in France for a 3-day official visit, his first since his election last December. Marzouki will meet French President Francois Hollande and...

The Tunisian government has sent humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey. The consignment was sent on the direct orders of President Moncef Marzouki and a similar aid flight...

Following the assassination today, Wednesday, of the Tunisian opposition figure, Chokri Belaid, the country's president, Dr Moncef Marzouki, has cancelled his visit to Egypt where he was due to...

Tunisia's interim President, Moncef Marzouki, has postponed his party's withdrawal from the country's coalition government. The Congress for the Republic Party (CPR), which he heads, has expressed its opposition...

Tunisia has been given the first payment of the money plundered from the country by the former regime. A UN lawyer working on the case handed a cheque for...

Interim Tunisian President, Moncef Marzouki, has announced a proposal to complete the writing of Tunisia's constitution by April. It is hoped that this will allow for presidential elections to be...

The leader of the al-Nahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi, stated on Wednesday that the movement has given up sovereign ministries within the Tunisian government currently being formed. It has been...

Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki has called on the African Union to hold an urgent meeting to discuss a peaceful solution for the Egyptian crisis. Mr Marzouki has bypassed the...

The head of the Renaissance Party in Tunisia's governing coalition, Rachid Al-Ghanouchi, considers what is happening in Egypt including the dismissal of the former President Mohammad Morsi a "democratic...

The Tunisian presidency has announced three days of mourning in the country over the death of nine Tunisian soldiers in Al-Shaanbi neighbourhood at the Tunisian-Algerian border. The soldiers were...

Tunisian President Al-Moncef Al-Marzouki said on Monday that Iran would get respect from the Arab world if it adopted the role as an objective mediator to achieve peace in...

President Moncef Marzouki of Tunisia has called on the Egyptian authorities to release ousted President Mohammed Morsi and all political detainees. He also called for the Rafah Border Crossing...

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has received a warm welcome on his return from the UN General Assembly in New York. Crowds at Carthage International Airport carried him shoulder-high for...

Tunisia's interim President Moncef Marzouki has described Egypt's situation as shocking to himself or any other "democratic person", based on the fact that liberals and human rights activists have...

A nationwide committee in Tunisia has called for the constitution to outlaw any "normalisation" with Israel. The National Committee for Supporting Arab Resistance and Fighting Normalisation and Zionism has...

Delegates at the UN General Assembly left the chamber this week when Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy went to the podium. He spoke to a virtually empty floor, with...

Strange circumstances led to the appointment of the former president of the Tunisian League and the Arab Commission for Human Rights as the head of the state in post-Arab...

While wearing his prison clothes and awaiting his execution in 1987, the man now charged with forming a new government in Tunisia could never have dreamt that his political...