Tunisian President Kais Saied delivered an impassioned speech on Monday evening in which he laid down his vision for a transitional period in the country fewer than two months after he suspended parliament and dismissed the cabinet.
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Tunisia's president has announced plans to draft a new electoral code and appoint a transitional leadership - and to hang on to the exceptional powers that he seized in July.
In a speech Monday night, President Kais Saied promised that the new (...)
The celebrated Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania recently announced the appearance of her latest film The Man Who Sold His Skin on the 93rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film shortlist. Tunisia had submitted films since 1995. Together (...)
Riots and violent clashes between Tunisian police and protesters broke out on Sunday in the capital Tunis and at least 15 cities for the second consecutive day, as the country faces an unprecedented economic crisis.
The army deployed to the cities (...)
In his old life, Hosni Kalaia remembers strolling the streets of his hometown of Kasserine in central Tunisia with confidence. He flashed his heavy gold bracelets and rings, and puffed out his chest, broad and sculptured from regular (...)
Hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police in a provincial Tunisian town on Tuesday after authorities bulldozed an unlicensed cigarette kiosk, killing its owner sleeping inside, witnesses said.
Street protests are frequent in Tunisia, (...)
Tunisian authorities on Wednesday dismantled a cell planning attacks on security forces and seized material for making explosives, the Interior Ministry said.
Most of the members of the cell, dubbed the Brigade of Jihad and Unity, were arrested and (...)
Tunisian police arrested 41 more protesters after fresh violent protests against austerity measures in the North African country, the interior ministry said on Monday, bringing the number of arrested to around 850.
Protests which started about a (...)
Tunisia plans to increase support for poor families and needy people by some $70 million, a government minister said on Saturday, after protests broke out in the North African country.
Protests, some of them violent, were held on Monday against (...)
Tunisian authorities arrested another 150 people including local opposition leaders on Friday, bringing the total detained close to 800 in response to demonstrations this week against price and tax rises.
Protests, some violent, flared across (...)
Tunisian authorities arrested another 150 people including local opposition leaders on Friday, bringing the total detained close to 800 in response to demonstrations this week against price and tax rises.
Protests, some violent, flared across (...)
Tunisia - Tunisian police killed an Islamist militant and another died when he detonated his suicide explosive belt during an exchange of gunfire after a raid in the central city of Sidi Bouzid, a government official said on Sunday.
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Hundreds of protesters demanding jobs clashed with police in several Tunisian towns on Saturday, blocking the route of visiting President Beji Caid Essebsi in one region, on the sixth anniversary of the country's revolution.
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Tunisia is being swept by a wave of demonstrations reminiscent of the country's experience five years ago, when protests triggered the first of the Arab Spring revolutions.
But the fifth anniversary of the Tunisian revolution is being commemorated (...)
Over the past week, Tunisia has experienced a surge in violent protests, the likes of which have not been since the 2011 revolution, leading the government to declare a countrywide curfew from 8pm to 5am.
The events have stirred confusion over the (...)
Tunisia declared a nationwide curfew Friday after four days of protests and rioting over jobs and economic conditions, the worst unrest since an uprising five years ago that toppled autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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Tunisia has declared a curfew in the western city after clashes between police and more than 1,000 young protesters demonstrating for jobs.
The interior ministry says the clashes in Kasserine on Tuesday left 20 protesters injured as well as three (...)
Tunisian poll station closed Sunday its doors after two million cast their votes in the runoff round of the Tunisian Presidential elections.
Member of the Tunisian Independent High Electoral Commission of the Tunisian elections, Nabil Bofon, said (...)
Tunisians who won the Nobel Peace Prize are joining with townspeople in the country's beleaguered heartland to mark five years since a desperate street vendor set himself on fire, unwittingly setting in motion upheaval across the Arab world.
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Tunisia has arrested a cell of 17 Islamist militants and prevented a major assault on hotels and security forces in the resort town of Sousse planned for this month, a senior government official told Reuters on Tuesday.
Sousse was the site of one of (...)
The Tunisian Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that clashes broke out between the army forces and an Al-Qaeda affiliate group in the Kasserine province on the border with Algeria.
Ministry spokesman Colonel Belhassen Oueslati said (...)
Three police officers were killed in clashes with Islamist militants at a checkpoint near Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia, TAP state news agency reported on Monday.
Two police officers died in an attack on the checkpoint and another in a later clash. (...)
Four Tunisian police officers and one armed Islamist were killed in clashes in the northwest and centre of the country, including one where gunmen tried to take civilians hostage before being shot, authorities said on Monday.
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Three police officers were killed in clashes with Islamist militants at a checkpoint near Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia, TAP state news agency reported Monday.
Two police officers died in an attack on the checkpoint and another in a later clash. (...)
There are two roads from Tunis to Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of the Arab Spring revolutions, just as there were before Tunisia's 2011 Revolution. One is the 270 km Jalma Road, the other the 250 km Nasrallah Road. The latter has undergone repairs and (...)