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Tunisia’s President Kais Saied is expected in December to attend the U.S. and Africa summit organized by the American President Joe Biden, the Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. mission in Tunis has revealed. Natasha Franceschi told Tunisia’s top diplomat Othmane Jerandi Monday that President Biden will extend an invitation to the Tunisian leader. The summit […]
A setback for President Kaïs Saïed: the administrative court of Tunis suspended the execution of his decision taken in June to dismiss 57 judges, a measure that had caused an outcry in the country. According to the court’s spokesperson, a certain number of judges could finally return to the courtroom after the examination of their […]
Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s major opposition party, said Wednesday he was ready to leave the leadership of the party only if there was any solution to the ongoing political crisis that has engulfed the North African country. In an interview with Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu, the Islamist leader said in the interest […]
The rift is growing between Tunisia and one of its main donors, the United States, as President Kais Saied continues his power grab leaning on authoritarian Algeria. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tunisia’s “dream of self-government” was in danger. His comment added to previous US criticism in the wake of the adoption of a […]
The governors of the central banks of Tunisia and Libya held Sunday talks in capital Tunis to improve cooperation between the two institutions. Marouen Abassi of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) hosted his Libyan counterpart Seddik Omar Kébir. A statement from Libya’s CBL indicated the two governor discussed issues of mutual concern in “the […]
Youssef Chahed, a former Tunisian Prime Minister denied media reports that he misused in 2018 a British grant for his own benefit, during his term in office, Business News reports. “The government never received any money or British donation of $18 million. This is all a work of pure imagination,” Chahed who led the country […]
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not willing to attend the Francophonie summit slated for November in Tunisia and has been lobbying for the event to be postponed citing lack of democracy in the North African country. Canadian media, La Press, revealed that Trudeau has been campaigning for weeks now to have the Nov. 19-20 […]
Tunisia’s independent electoral commission, ISIE, Tuesday said it will sue any person who accuses it of having cooked results of the unpopular July 25 referendum that adopted President Kais Saied-proposed new constitution. Farouk Bouaskar, President of the body, also said during a press conference any attack on the commission members will be subject to lawsuit. […]
Tunisia’s independent electoral commission, ISIE, has fired its chief of staff for professional mistakes in connection with figures of the July 25 referendum that was largely boycotted. Maher Jedidi, Deputy President of the body, told local Mozaique FM radio that the chief of staff was guilty of serious professional misconduct, requiring sanctions. The sanction comes […]
Rached Ghannouchi, speaker of the dissolved Tunisian parliament and leader of the legislature largest party Ennahdha said Wednesday he feared President Kais Saied will conduct change to the electoral code in the wake of the referendum, in a bid to prevent his party from taking part in future elections. The North African conducted a referendum […]