King Mohammed VI chairs Ministers’ Council Feb 7 2019

Ex-TunisAir CEO announces plans to run for next year presidential elections

Olfa Hamdi, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tunisia’s national carrier and founder of La troisième République [The Third Republic] movement, will run for the presidency during the next elections. Hamdi unveiled her plans over the weekend and presented herself as the suitable replacement of incumbent Kais Saied whose election in 2019 has harmed so […]

Tunisia: UGTT to boycott legislative & presidential elections

Tunisia’s powerful workers union, UGTT, Thursday said it will take part neither in the legislative nor in the presidential elections planned for next fall. Noureddine Taboubi, Secretary General of the powerful union, told a local radio that the union decided it will not field or back any party or independent candidacy for the legislative elections […]

Japanese Premier to be absent at TICAD 8 summit in Tunisia

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will miss the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) summit planned to take place late this month in Tunis, after the Japanese state-run news Kyodo News announced he contracted COVID-19. Kishida tested positive to the virus on Sunday at the end of his summer break. He, commenced working […]