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Tunisia’s ex-president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali passed away in exile in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. According to his family’s lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, funeral will take place on Friday in Saudi Arabia. However, a source from the Tunisian Prime Minister’s Read more
In Tunisia, law professor and political outsider Kais Saied is leading the country’s presidential polls, the electoral commission said. Sunday election is the country’s second free vote for head of state since the 2011 Arab Spring. According to the provisional Read more
Tunisian military and security forces Monday neutralized three terrorists including a notorious wanted Algerian terrorist in clashes in Kasserine, highest mountains of the North African country. Forces from the interior and defense ministry laid an ambush Sunday night to a Read more
Tunisia’s Premier Youssef Chahed on Friday joined the nearly 60 candidates for September advanced presidential elections. Chahed is running for Tahya Tounes, a newly created party, that broke away of the ruling Nidaa Tounes party. The biggest political party Ennahda Read more
Tunisia’s liberal Prime Minister, Youssef Chahed, will run for president in an early election expected on Sept. 15, his Tahaya Tounes party said on Wednesday. The date of the presidential election initially due in November this year was advanced by Read more
The Arab League, the United nation and world leaders, on Thursday mourned the death of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi who died earlier in the morning at the age of 92. AL chief Ahmed Aboul-Gheit mourned Essebsi’s death offering condolences Read more
Tunisian media magnet and presidential hopeful Nabil Karoui has been banned from traveling abroad after the judiciary slapped money charges on him, reports say. The spokesman for the judiciary department for financial cases, Sofiene Sliti, Monday indicated the judge 10 Read more
Prime Minister Youssef Chahed Wednesday announced all members of the terror group that masterminded last week Thursday attacks in capital in which one police officer died, have been all arrested or killed, reports say. “These last five days had been Read more
Syndicates and rights activists took to the street Monday and Tuesday to protest the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MbS) marred in the controversy surrounding the assassination of his critic Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate Read more
The European Commission on Thursday signed four conventions with Tunisia worth €270 million. The agreements will support Tunisia’s energy sector, tax reform, socio-economic transformation, solidarity promotion, competitiveness and foreign trade as well as the justice system, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of Read more