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Category: Tunisia
Tunisian court reduces prison sentence for three condemned to 30 years in prison for smoking cannabis
A court in the Tunisian city of El Kef has slashed to 2 years the prison sentence of three young man arrested in January and ... Read More
TunisAir jet bound for Lyon made an emergency landing
A TunisAir passenger jet bound for the French city of Lyon made Monday an emergency landing at Tunis-Carthage after takeoff owing to a technical problem, ... Read More
Tunisia struggles to downsize public wage bill
Tunisia counts more than 650,000 civil servants that is 5% of the total population of 12 million people, a number that weighs significantly on the ... Read More
Confusion in Tunisia over UAE vaccine donation
Tunisia is afresh gripped with a new scandal as the cabinet says it has not been informed about doses of covid-19 vaccine offered to the ... Read More
TunisAir to sign debt rescheduling agreement with Turkish airport operator TAV
Tunisia’s national carrier, TunisAir, will sign on March 05, a debt settlement agreement with the Civil Aviation and Airport Authority (OACA) and Turkish airport operator ... Read More
Algerian, Tunisian Islamists fantasize about a mini-Maghreb without Morocco
Blinded by their endemic anti-semitism, Algerian and Tunisian leaders of parties hailing from the Muslim Brotherhood called for a Maghreban union that excludes Morocco. Head ... Read More
Tunisia’s Human Rights League urges Prime Minister to resign
Tunisia’s Human rights League, LTDH, Thursday called on Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi to step down few hours after a meeting between the two sides. ... Read More
Moody’s downgrades Tunisia’s ratings to B3 with negative outlook
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 with negative outlook. “Moody's has ... Read More
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 the job. Moez ... Read More
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 support from Russia. The ... Read More