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Tunisia’s Anti-terrorism commission, CNLCT, announced Monday it froze the assets of three Tunisians who allegedly funded terrorism activities, reports say. The CNLCT told state-run news agency TAP that the three individuals, whose names have not been disclosed, physically financed terrorism activities. Tunisia has set up the CNLCT to prevent terrorism in a country that witnessed […]
Tunisia has launched Monday its first satellite, “Challenge 1”, from Kazakhstan on board Russian Soyuz rocket 2, Webdo Tunis reports. The unmanned rocket took off from Baikonour Cosmodrome, carrying 37 other satellites from 17 other countries including Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany and South Korea. President Kais Saied attended the launching from Telnet Holding office, the […]
A court in capital Tunis Wednesday sentenced 10 people, including five women, to 48 years in prison after they were convicted for forming a terror group. The defendants were arrested in 2017 in several governorates in the north of the country. They admitted the formation of the terror cell and allegiance to the […]
The Tunisian president visited Libya on Wednesday 17 March, the first visit by a head of state to the new leaders of the national unity government. The menu of the meeting was copious: the fate of the families of jihadists, the position towards Israel and economic cooperation. During the eight-hour visit, Tunisian President Kais […]
The World Bank has lent Tunisia $100 million for the financing of the covid-19 vaccination campaign in the North African country which still counts at least 1,037 active cases. The announcement was made by Férid Belhadj, World Bank Group Vice President for Middle East and North Africa on the sideline of a meeting with President […]
The World Bank has allocated Tunisia $300 million to help support more than one million Tunisian families living under the poverty line, the office of President Kais Saied said Monday. The announcement came following a meeting between the Tunisian President and Férid Belhadj, World Bank Group Vice President for MENA region. Financial support, the […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied is expected in Libya on wednesday, becoming thus the first foreign leader to visit the war-torn country since the establishment of a new central administration. The visit aims at backing the democratic process in Libya and at further enhancing relations between the two countries, the presidential office said. The visit […]
Tunisian prominent media businessman and journalist Sami Fehri said Sunday he would surrender to authorities on Tuesday after he was sentenced to eight years in prison in connection with a corruption case dating back to 2011. Tunis first instance court last week found the owner of Al-Hiwar Ettounsi TV guilty of corruption over the […]
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 condemned to 30 years in jail for possessing and smoking cannabis, a substance banned by the North African country. The court ruling came following a public outcry against the city’s […]
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 state budget. Tunisia has more public sector employees compared to 568,000 in Morocco which has a population three times bigger. The IMF has urged the Tunisian government to cut the […]