Two dead, 14 wounded, over 230 arrested — this was the initial toll of the confrontations that erupted on Sunday in the Tadamun district in west Tunis between security forces and members of the Ansar Al-Sharia, a jihadist Salafist group. The (...)
If Tunisians agree about one thing, it is that arms have been inundating their country since the January 2011 Revolution and that civil war could break out if the process of democratic transformation that is currently underway fails.
The discovery (...)
A Tunisian military prosecutor demanded on Wednesday that the death penalty be imposed in absentia on ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali over his alleged role in the deaths of protesters in the towns where the Arab Spring began.
Ben Ali, who (...)
A year after Tunisian fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire and triggered popular uprisings across the Arab world, popular expectations continue to run high, writes Mourad Teyeb in Tunis
Who could have imagined one year ago that fewer (...)
EGYPT
Egypt's military rulers say parliamentary elections will start on schedule next week despite unrest, and they reject protesters' calls for them to immediately step down.
Resigning now would amount to a "betrayal" of the people's trust (...)
Tunisian security forces fired into the air to try to disperse more than 3,000 protesters who were preparing to attack a government building in the provincial town of Kasserine On Wednesday, witnesses said.
The protesters took to the streets (...)
Riots took place in the Gafsa region on Thursday, following violence in a nearby region on Wednesday night, when security forces were forced to fire into the air to stop a crowd of protesters attacking a government building.
Tunisia became the (...)
There is much excitement and hope, and apprehension too, here in Tunisia on the eve of the first real multi-party elections in the country's history. This vote also marks a real milestone as the first elections in the region since a wave of popular (...)
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is formally re-starting operations in Tunisia for the first time in 13 years and will immediately begin a cash-for-work project aimed at assisting the North African country's neediest people.WFP and the (...)
A new documentary about the Arab Spring has had its debut screening in Sweden, adding to the growing number of films about the region's revolutions.
Zero Silence, a Swedish production, takes us on a journey through Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon (...)
“I don't pretend to have very strong political positions,” singer Emel Mathlouthi, the Tunisian element in Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy's Ramadan nights last year, said. “But I try to talk about what I'm feeling: freedom.”
This year another Tunisian, (...)
For the first time since her last performance in Cairo in 1999, Abir Nasrawi returns with a cultural performance celebrating the freedom of Tunisia and Egypt at this year's Spring Music Festival entitled “Music, Freedom, Equality” on 29 (...)
TUNIS, Tunisia: More than 800 inmates escaped on Friday from two Tunisian prisons after fires were set in cells, the official news agency said.
Soldiers and security forces quickly fanned out in a search of the fugitives and at least 35 were (...)
Two months after the toppling of former president Zein Al-Abidine bin Ali, the Tunisian revolution has really only just begun, writes Mourad Teyeb in Tunis
It needed an additional 10-day sit-in in the symbolic Kasbah Square, and seven to 10 people (...)
Amnesty International has today called for immediate independent investigations as it released a report detailing unlawful killings and acts of brutality by Tunisian security forces during the protests in December and January that led to the (...)
The transitional government of Tunisia should make it an urgent priority to investigate the killings of demonstrators by Tunisian security forces in early January 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
Security forces used excessive force in (...)
Amnesty International has today revealed disturbing new evidence of the brutal methods used by Tunisian security forces to try to quell anti-Government protests in recent weeks.
An Amnesty International research team which has just returned from (...)
Twenty-nine days were enough to revolutionize the status quo in Tunisia. They saw President Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali flee the country after 23 years in office. What started with a jobless young man's self-immolition ended with Ben Ali's flight to (...)
TUNIS: Tunisian interior minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem was sacked Wendesday as police and protesters clashed in the center of the capital Wednesday, bringing unrest to the government's doorstep after nearly a month of violent protests that pose the (...)
At least 11 people have died in clashes with security forces in new rioting in the North African country where unrest is in its fourth week, local union officials said Sunday.
The Interior Ministry, meanwhile, said eight people were killed over the (...)