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Tunisia’s national carrier TunisAir will acquire next month two narrow-body A320ceos and two others next year, CEO Khaled Chelly announced during the annual general meeting amid declining financial performance by the airline. K. Chelly said the four jets will be added to the current 17 being operated by the airline as part of efforts to […]
The Tunisian State has suspended as many as 97 political parties accused of failing to submit their financial statements since 2018, Government official Samia Charfi Kaddour told the legislature Tuesday November 21. In total, 150 parties have been notified to provide the financial statements or face suspension, Kaddour indicated, adding that 15 parties are yet […]
Tunisian security forces have rounded up 25 people, including lecturers and a military man, in the city of Monastir for consuming drugs at a birthday party, a spokesperson of the city court was quoted by the media as saying. Farid Ben Jha told local media ‘Mosaïque Fm’ Monday November 20 that security forces raided a […]
As many as 638.100 Tunisians were jobless during the third quarter of the year (Q3), accounting for 15.8 per cent of the active population, the country’s statistical Agency announced Wednesday. The 15.8 per cent translates a rise in the unemployment. 15.6 per cent of the active population in Q2 was unemployed, the agency notes. The […]
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 […]
An investigative judge in Tunisia has convicted five people from a European country for belonging to a terror group after investigations at an apartment led to the seizure of fire arms, drogue and foreign passports, Tunisie Numerique reports. The judge from the country’s anti-terrorism service ordered imprisonment of five arrested two weeks ago at Baraket […]
Ahmed Melki aka Al Somali (The Somalian), the most prominent of the five terrorists who escaped from prison on November 1 in the Tunisian town of Mornaguia, has been arrested by residents of a district in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. Melki had reportedly been active in several terror groups and received military trainings. Melki was […]
The Islamist Ennahdha party, Tunisia’s largest political movement, has appointed Ajmi Ourimi as the new Secretary General of the party since the resignation of Zied Laadhari who stepped down in the wake of the 2019 legislatives. The shura council of the party reportedly met October 30-31 to agree on the prerogatives of the new Secretary […]
Tunisia’s Interior ministry announced Tuesday October 31 the removal of both Director General of Special Services and of General Intelligence few moments after five high profile terrorists managed to break away from a prison in the town of Mornaguia, 14km from capital Tunis. The terrorists namely Ahmed Melki aka “Le Somalien”, Ameur Balâazi, Raed Touati, […]
Tunisian counterterrorism security forces arrested Tuesday October 24 in Zaghouan governorate 12 men forming a terror cell allegedly preparing terror attacks in the North African country. The home security directorate said in a statement that the men, Salafists from El Fahs, who have been under surveillance, used to meet repeatedly and secretly. The cell members […]