Category: Tunisia

Ecuador seizes over 600 kg of cocaine bound for Tunisia

January 12, 2022

Police in Ecuador seized 656.7 kg of cocaine dissimulated in a container bound for Tunisia, Business News reports. Fausto Buenaño Castillo, Chief of the Latin ... Read More

After Turkey, Morocco set to curb trade deficit with Tunisia, Egypt

January 11, 2022

Morocco has taken steps to renegotiate a free trade deal with Tunisia and Egypt to protect its own industrial fabric and protect jobs after it ... Read More

France refuses to extradite former Tunisian President Marzouki sentenced to four years in prison

January 10, 2022

Ex-Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki has revealed French authorities have turned down Tunisia’s request to extradite him after he was condemned to four years in ... Read More

19 Tunisian politicians including Speaker of suspended Parliament summoned

January 6, 2022

The criminal court of the first instant tribunal of Tunis has published a list of 19 politicians including Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of the country’s suspended ... Read More

Tunisia to freeze salaries, recruitment in public sector for next three years – local NGO

January 5, 2022

Tunisia has pledged to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to freeze salaries and recruitments in public sector from next three years until 2024, local powerful ... Read More

Former US envoy advises Tunisian leader to refrain from following footsteps of late Ben Ali

January 3, 2022

Former US ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray has urged the President Kais Saied  not to take a leaf out of ex- autocratic Ben Ali’s book, ... Read More

Tunisia: President fires several governors including Tunis Governor

December 31, 2021

Tunisian President Kais Saied has fired several governors including Tunis governor Chedly Bouallègue, in a new sweeping move by the leader of the North African ... Read More

Saudi Arabia conditions credit line to Tunisia on IMF’s demands

December 30, 2021

Saudi Arabia is willing to provide Tunisia a financial facility to support the 2022 state budget but provided that the North African country meets the ... Read More

Tunisia arrests Boko Haram alleged affiliates

December 30, 2021

Tunisia recently arrested a number of alleged militants of the Nigeria-based terror group Boko Haram, the leader of security union in the coastal city of ... Read More

Tunisia orders investigation into death of former president Caid Essebsi

December 29, 2021

Tunisia’s Justice Minister Leila Jaffel has ordered the general prosecutor to launch probe into the circumstances of the death of former President Beji Caid Essebsi ... Read More