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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 country by the UAE. The North African country received from the UAE two months ago 1.000 doses of covid-19 vaccine for the immunization of politicians and high ranking officials, […]
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 TAV Airports to which it owes several million euros, Webdo Tunis reports. TunisAir and TAV Airports managing Enfidha-Hammamet and Monastir HAbib Bourguiba airports have found themselves in a conflict […]
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. The call came in a statement issued by the organization without providing reasons for its call. Mechichi hours before the statement, received an LTDH delegation to discuss the state […]
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 also downgraded the Central Bank of Tunisia’s senior unsecured rating to B3 from B2 and the senior unsecured shelf rating to (P)B3 from (P)B2, and maintained the negative outlook. The […]
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 launch of the satellite on March 20 comes to fruition as the country celebrates its 65th independence anniversary. The satellite was first unveiled in 2019 by Tunisian aerospace and telecommunications […]
Tunisian Premier Hichem Mechichi announced Monday he threw out five ministers of his disputed new cabinet arguing that the move is meant to improve government performance. His office said in a statement justice, industry, state property, youth and sports, and agriculture ministers have been sacked. The posts have been handed to caretaker sitting ministers while […]
A landmine explosion hurt Monday in Tunisia’s restive Kasserine province, a teenage girl aged 13, several days after four soldiers were slain in a similar incident. The girl, Webdo Tunis reports, was hurt at legs and in the face while. The incident occurred in a sealed military zone on Samema mountain. The victim has been […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied Wednesday rejected the idea of calling on foreign intervention in the conflict opposing him and Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi over the inauguration of five ministers suspected for conflict of interest. The crisis between Saied and Mechichi further soured late last month as the Tunisian leader disapproved despite vote of confidence by […]
The dominant party in the Tunisian legislature, Ennahdha, Tuesday rejected claims that some of its members have joined the 73 signatories of a petition asking the removal of the leader of the Islamist party Rached Ghannouchi as speaker of Parliament. The reaction came after Fayçal Tebbini, lawmaker from The Farmers’ Voice told local radio Jawhara […]
As many as 73 Tunisian lawmakers have signed a petition seeking to unseat the speaker of parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, who managed to secure his position in July after a similar motion failed. The petition according to two of its signatories, Mongi Rahoui and Zouhaier Maghzaoui, is ready but has not been submitted to the parliament […]