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The Tunis court of first instance sentenced Tuesday four young men to 20 years in prison for forming a drug trafficking network in the capital, Tunisie Numerique reports. The defendants, according to the investigative media, brought into the country the drug from a country in the Maghreb region, through the North-East governorates. They had […]
Saudi Arabia and Libya will provide Tunisia a loan of $500 million each attached with affordable interests to help the North African country to overcome economic woes amid the ongoing political crisis. The news was revealed by Tunisie Numerique, which cited a source knowledgeable of the matter but who asked not be named because not […]
Tunisia’s military court handed Wednesday a three-year prison sentence to Maher Zid, a lawmaker in the suspended state legislature. Zid, who is uncounted for, was sued by former defense minister Ghazi Jribi after he accused him of corruption in relation to the acquisition of a number of US helicopters for the Tunisian armed forces. Zid […]
Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt have advanced to the third and last round of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup to be held in Qatar. The four football names in the region topped their respective groups – underlining their dominion on football on the continent. Morocco earlier booked its place before the November fixtures. Algeria […]
The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) and its Tunisian counterpart BCT have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in many areas including fintech, Libya Herald reports. The MoU, according to the CBL, provides for the transfer of experience of Tunisia’s Central Bank in the field of developing financial transactions (Fintech), and the […]
Thousands of Tunisians tried to storm the country’s Parliament in capital Tunis in protest to what they branded a “coup” after President Kais Saied closed the legislature and suspended the immunity of lawmakers. Security forces positioned in the vicinity of the Parliament managed to keep the protestors at bay. Protesters among the supporters of the […]
Iranian hacker group Lyceum has launched lately a cyber-attack against an internet service provider (ISP) in Morocco, according to the findings of Prevailion’s Adversarial Counterintelligence Team (PACT) and Accenture’s Cyber Threat (ACTI) group. The attack, which was launched between July and October 2021, also targeted ISPs and telecommunication operators in Israel, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia […]
Tunisia’s Premier Najla Bouden Wednesday indicated that her country is keen to make smart investment into education as part of efforts to get rid of extremism. “Tunisia is committed to supporting smart investment in education and training, exploring alternative sources of funding, and encouraging public-private partnerships to invest in the future of our children,” she […]
UGTT, Tunisia’s most powerful workers’ union, has called for a general strike for this Tuesday to denounce the stabbing of a high school teacher by a student in the costal town of Ezzahra, south of capital Tunis. Sahbi Ben Slama, a high-school History and Geography teacher was assaulted by a student who stabbed him multiple […]
Four Tunisian workers have lost their lives during an accident on the Bouri Offshore Field, about 120 kilometers north of the Libyan coast, Tunisia’s consul general in Tripoli told state-run agency TAP. Taoufik Guesmi told the agency their corpses would be repatriated either Sunday or today Monday. The men working for Tripoli-based Mellitah Oil & […]