New York-based credit rating agency, Moody’s, Tuesday downgraded Tunisia’s long-term foreign-currency and local-currency issuer ratings to B3 from B2 ...
TunisAir CEO fired
Tunisia’s Transport and logistics minister has fired Olfa Hamdi, the Chief Executive Officer of national carrier TunisAir, less than two months into t...
Tunisia prepares to launch its first satellite
Preparations are underway for the launch into orbit of a Tunisian-manufactured satellite, Challenge 1, which was produced by TELNET Company with suppo...
Tunisian Prime Minister sacks five ministers amid ongoing political deadlock
Tunisian Premier Hichem Mechichi announced Monday he threw out five ministers of his disputed new cabinet arguing that the move is meant to improve go...
Landmine blast injures teenage girl in Tunisia
A landmine explosion hurt Monday in Tunisia’s restive Kasserine province, a teenage girl aged 13, several days after four soldiers were slain in a sim...
Tunisia: Deadlock between President, Prime Minister continues
Tunisian President Kais Saied Wednesday rejected the idea of calling on foreign intervention in the conflict opposing him and Prime Minister Hichem Me...
Ennahdha rejects allegations party members signed petition seeking to ouster Speaker of Parliament
The dominant party in the Tunisian legislature, Ennahdha, Tuesday rejected claims that some of its members have joined the 73 signatories of a petitio...
Fresh vote of no confidence targets Tunisian parliament speaker; cabinet reshuffle still stalled
As many as 73 Tunisian lawmakers have signed a petition seeking to unseat the speaker of parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, who managed to secure his posi...
Algeria stood in the way of Tunisia’s Jasmin Revolution- Former President
Moncef Marzouki, first President of post-Arab Spring Tunisia, made headlines again by accusing Algeria of standing in the way of the Jasmin Revolution...
BERD lends Tunisia €300m earmarked for energy stabilization during pandemic
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €300 million financing package to Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du...