On 25 July, Tunisian President Kais Saied took several decisions that marked a turning point in Tunisian politics after confrontations over the last seven months with prime minister Hichem Mechichi and speaker of parliament and leader of the Ennahda (...)
Tunisian demonstrators shut an oil pumping station that feeds a coastal terminal on Thursday, escalating weeks of protests for jobs in the marginalized southern region of Tatouine, witnesses told Reuters.
The move places further pressure on Tunisian (...)
Mauritania on Tuesday named the following 23-man squad for next month's Africa Cup of Nations finals in Egypt:
Goalkeepers: Suleiman Brahim (FC Nouadhibou), Namori Diaw (ASC Kedia), Babacar Diop (AS Police)
Defenders: Aly Abeid (Alcorcon), Abdoul Ba (...)
Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Wednedsay fired Interior Minister Lotfi Brahem, a government statement said, after one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years.
The boat packed with some 180 migrants sank on Sunday off Tunisia's (...)
Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has declared a full-scale “war against corruption,” which had become widespread under the regime of ousted former president Zein Al-Abedine Ben Ali. Tunisia “has no choice. It's either corruption or the state. (...)
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi warned in a speech on Wednesday that the country's democratic path is “under threat,” as protests over social and economic issues continue in southern and central Tunisia.
Essebsi announced the deployment of army (...)
Protests over jobs and development in southern and central Tunisia have halted production or shut fields of two foreign energy companies, local radio and companies said on Monday, in a new challenge to Prime Minister Youssef Chahed.
Tunisia is only (...)
German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin — and even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year before halting the (...)
German police are looking for a Tunisian man after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, on Monday evening, news website Spiegel Online reported.
The (...)
The United States gave jeeps, communications technology and small aircraft to Tunisia on Thursday to help protect the border with Libya, where Islamic State (IS) group has gained ground and set up training camps, officials said.
The North African (...)
More than thirty young people from the delegation of Remada, Governorate of Tataouine, have been missing since Monday evening after the Taraweeh prayer.
Their relatives fear they have illegally crossed the Libyan border to join armed groups.
These (...)
After sounding the alarm for months over the rise of religious extremists in Tunisia, the opposition now warns that the new threat to this North African country's democratic transition are vigilante bands allied to the elected government.
Tunisia (...)
The anniversary of the election of Tunisia's constituent assembly on 23 October passed with no remarkable occurrences. But the country's battle against a new type of threat, that represented by violence by ultraconservative Salafis, is still (...)
Protesters hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police stations, a court house and the offices of secular parties in some of the worst clashes since last year's revolt ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and launched uprisings across the Arab (...)
CAIRO: According to reports from Tunisia, some 2,000 Libyan refugees have fled to Tunisia in the past 24 hours, the official press agency TAP reported on Saturday.
After a relative lull, Dhehiba-Wazen, the country's second largest border post (...)
The United Nations refugee agency and its partners in Tunisia are distributing food for more than 55,000 Libyans who have fled the fighting in their homeland to help them prepare their evening meals during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.The (...)
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has launched the first ship with a regular schedule to ferry relief supplies and aid workers from the Libyan city of Benghazi to Misrata, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting since an uprising (...)
Dehiba, Tunisia—Salih sits in loose brown traditional qamis and sirwal in the middle of a mosque still under construction, prayer rugs covering the unfinished concrete floor. He's surrounded by other men clad in long robes and skull caps—refugees as (...)
Can Tunisia, lacking stability and hit by unrest, deal with the thousands of Libyans now flocking across its southern borders, asks Mourad Teyeb on the Tunisia-Libya border
Thousands of people have fled from their homes in north- western Libya, as (...)
Gaddafi envoy holds talks in Morocco
Morocco hosted a visit by a Libyan deputy foreign minister on Monday, a rare diplomatic link between Muammar Gaddafi's government and one of the staunch allies of the Western coaltion determined to overthrow (...)
Morocco to have 35 million mobile users
Morocco is looking to maintain its position atop the North African mobile phone market and Maroc Telecom seeks to remain the largest operator in the country, it said in a press statement Monday.
“Maroc (...)