Tunisia

The Tunisian administrative court upheld on Friday an appeal by prominent politician Imed Daimi to be allowed to return to the race for the presidential election expected on Oct. 6, Daimi said. Daimi became the third candidate to be…
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Tunisian authorities have arrested an Italian man suspected of building a boat for irregular migrants trying to reach to Europe, a judicial source told AFP on Wednesday. The 45-year-old who was not named “works in a boat building…
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A Tunisian court released government critic and former presidential hopeful Safi Said from custody Thursday after he was arrested for crossing into Algeria “illegally,” Tunisian media reported. Said, 70, a vocal opponent of Tunisian…
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Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Tuesday in the capital Tunis marking National Women’s Day and demanding the release of women detained for criticizing President Kais Saied, an AFP reporter saw. Since a sweeping power grab in 2021 by…
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The National Company for Rail Transport in Algeria announced on Sunday the resumption of rail services on the line between Algeria and Tunisia following a hiatus of nearly 30 years. The service was officially relaunched on Saturday,…
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The Tunisian election board announced Saturday that three candidates including incumbent President Kais Saied had been cleared to run in upcoming elections. Saied, 66, was democratically elected in 2019 but orchestrated a sweeping power…
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UN experts have called for Tunisian former Truth and Dignity Commission chief Sihem Bensedrine to be given a fair trial, saying her arrest could amount to judicial harassment. Bensedrine, who headed a panel tasked with uncovering abuses…
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President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkiye might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting. Erdogan, who has been a fierce…
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More than half of the mainly sub-Saharan migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Tunisia currently live in “unsuitable conditions,” a domestic rights group said Tuesday. In its latest study on migration, the Tunisian Forum for Economic…
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In Tunisia’s seaside town of Hammamet, bulldozers diligently shovel sand from a nearby desert onto a popular beach in an attempt to stop it from disappearing due to erosion. “This beach is the postcard image of Hammamet,” said…
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