Tag: Tunisia

Tunisia: Bill on Gender Equality in Inheritance in the Pipeline

August 14, 2018

Tunisian President Béji Caid Essebsi on Monday announced the introduction of a draft bill on equal inheritance for men and women, making Tunisia the first ... Read More

Tunisia: 300 custom officers to appear before accountability court

August 10, 2018

Tunisia’s General Directorate of Customs has ordered 300 custom officers to appear before a disciplinary council for “corruption” and other bribery charges,” the spokesman of ... Read More

British holidaymakers back to Turkey, Tunisia and Egypt

August 10, 2018

A study carried out this summer by ForwardKeys and market research company GfK shows that British holidaymakers are flocking back to North African countries; destinations ... Read More

Migration: Italy Mulls Investing at Least €1 Bln in North Africa

August 6, 2018

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has unveiled lately an ambitious plan worth at least 1 billion Euros destined to support the economies of North African ... Read More

Tunisia: Armed Robbery of Bank Linked to Terrorism

August 2, 2018

The Tunisian Interior Ministry has linked the Wednesday robbery of a bank near the border with Algeria to a terrorism act. An armed group left ... Read More

The 40 African Migrants stranded at Sea Arrive in Tunisia

August 1, 2018

The Tunisian authorities have finally agreed to accept for humanitarian reasons a commercial vessel carrying around 40 African migrants who have been stranded for two ... Read More

Tunisia Joins Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa

July 19, 2018

Tunisia has officially been admitted as the 20th member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Tunisia applied for the membership of ... Read More

Respect for Territorial Integrity a Sine Qua Non for Maghreb Integration

July 19, 2018

Respect for territorial integrity of member states is a sine qua non for achieving the long-sought integration of the Maghreb Union (AMU), Morocco’s Lower House ... Read More

Will Energy Break Ice in Inter-Maghreb Relations?

July 16, 2018

The recent Tunisian request to Algeria and Morocco for energy supply during the summer could usher a new era of cooperation between the countries of ... Read More

Terrorists Kill Six Tunisian soldiers on Algerian Border

July 9, 2018

Terrorism has struck Tunisia again after an attack took the lives of six Tunisian soldiers on the border with Algeria. The Interior ministry said the ... Read More