Tag: Habib Essid

Tunisia: 3,000 police agents protest for better work conditions

January 26, 2016

Around 3,000 law enforcement agents marched towards the presidential palace Carthage Monday to claim better work conditions and risk premiums while social riots across the ... Read More

Tunisia: Protests reach Tunis, fears for general unrest loom

January 22, 2016

Social protests in Kasserine and other regions of the country have spilled into the capital city Tunis with demonstrations and looting in two popular neighborhoods ... Read More

Tunisia: Prime Minister Essid appoints a new cabinet

January 7, 2016

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid amid growing criticism targeting his management of affairs appointed a new cabinet marked by 13 new entries including news secretaries ... Read More

Tunisia: Tunis, Doha seal several co-operation agreements, security underscored

December 10, 2015

Tunisia and Qatar Wednesday during the 6th session of the Tunisian-Qatari High Joint Committee in Doha inked several agreements and the Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) ... Read More

Jordan and Tunisia discuss prospects at joint commission meeting

December 8, 2015

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid is on a working visit to Jordan as the head of a delegation for the 8th Tunisian-Jordanian joint commission meeting. ... Read More

Tunisia Plans to Set up Security & Intelligence Agency

October 30, 2015

Tunisian authorities Thursday decided to endow the country with its own security and intelligence national agency to help in preventing and warding off terrorist threats ... Read More

Tunisia-France: Paris and Tunis team up against terrorism

September 18, 2015

Visiting French Minister of Justice said Thursday in Tunis that France and Tunisia must join hands to fight the terrorism threat challenging their democracy and ... Read More

Tunisia: suspension of the state of emergency considered

September 14, 2015

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid Sunday indicated that the government is considering the lifting of the state of emergency as the security situation has improved. ... Read More

Tunisia: Lagarde acknowledges Tunisia’s resilience

September 9, 2015

International Monetary Fund Director General Christine Lagarde voiced the international financial institution’s determination to support Tunisia in a “widened partnership” and renewed her confidence in ... Read More

Tunisia: 5year development plan to overcome economic and social challenges by 2016

August 2, 2015

Tunisia is preparing a five year development program that is expected to begin next year and the Minister of Development, Investment and International Co-operation Yassine Brahim ... Read More