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Tunisia’s national carrier TunisAir took delivery Saturday of a new aircraft, A320neo type, as part of efforts to revamp its fleet. The aircraft is the fourth the airline is receiving after three it received in December 2021, February and November this year. The airline is set to take delivery of another narrow body passenger jet […]
Tunis Court of First Instance Tuesday sentenced a local journalist to one year in prison on charges of disclosing data on a counter-terrorism operation in Kairouan governorate. Khalifa Guesmi, working for Mozaique FM, has been under investigation since March after his arrest and detention following the publication of an article by the media about the […]
Tunisia’s president Kais Saied has put Tunisia on a track of autocracy taking power-grab decisions and measures to quell dissent, the latest of which was a travel ban on a long list of opposition figures he accused of “conspiring against the state.” A list of 25 political figures and former officials critical of Saied are […]
The Tunis Court of First Instance condemned former First Lady Leila Ben Ali to six years in prison in absentia for traffic of influence, Webdo Tunis reports. The criminal chamber specialized in financial corruption cases accused the wife of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 2019, of using […]
The court of First Instance of Tunis condemned Wednesday Nadia Akacha, former Chief of Staff of President Kais Saied to pay TND200, $61, for defamation, in a case dating back to 2020. Akacha had accused Mona Mouna Kraïem, a public servant, of plagiarism without evidence, Webdo Tunis reports citing the court. The accusation came while […]
Tunisian security forces have nabbed a terrorist associated with 2017 Barcelona attacks that caused the death of 24 people including 16 civilians. The terrorist, not identified, was arrested in the town of Fernana, in Jendouba Governorate about 170 km from Tunis, following tipoffs by local population, Tunisie Numérique reports. The man’s appearance, that of extremist […]
The European Union, EU, is set to grant Tunisia €100 million earmarked to help the North African country surf the impacts of the pandemic and to support the economy, the ministry of Economy and planning has announced. The financing agreement will be signed this Monday, November 14, 2022, at the headquarters of the Ministry of […]
Three pharmaceutical giants are about to put an end to their investments in Tunisia, in a series of bad economic news that continued to flow in Tunisia led by a President who is more into empty rhetoric than taking action to avert the financial collapse of the country. So far, local subsidiaries of Bayer, GSK […]
Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Islamist Ennahdha movement, Tunisia’s largest political forces, was let free Thursday, after his interrogation in a court in the city of Sousse, in connection to an investigation into “Instalingo” case in which he is suspected of calling for an armed uprising against President Kais Saied. Ghannouchi was set free […]
The African Development Bank, AfDB, has accorded $80 million credit facility earmarked to enhance food self-sufficiency and security, through securing the supply of soft wheat, barley and fertilizers. The loan deal was signed Thursday between Samir Said, Tunisia’s Minister of Economy and Planning and Mohamed El Azizi, the Director General, Regional Development and Service Delivery […]