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Tunisian President Kais Saied has extended for three months the state of emergency in place since November 2015 following a series of deadly attacks that killed over 70 people, mostly foreign tourists. The decision according to the office of the president was taken following consultation with caretaker Prime Minister Youssef Chahed and the Speaker of […]
About 43 Tunisians are currently held in prisons in Libya over membership in terrorist organizations charges, the director general of consular affairs has said. The foreign ministry official who was speaking Monday before the parliament over the government plan to protect Tunisian expats in Libya also indicated that the North African country is working to […]
The largest group in the Tunisian parliament, Ennahda, said this Tuesday the North African country could head towards new legislatives, noting that it will not back the cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Elyes Fakhfakh if he persists to form a government out of four political parties. The party’s spokesman, Imed Khemiri reportedly told local media […]
A delegation of Tunisian authorities arrived Thursday in Misrata, Libya’s third city, to repatriate six children of Tunisians killed in the ranks of the Islamic state group (ISIS) in 2016. The Libyan Red Crescent said the delegation would return with the children aged 3 and 12 years old. The children whose names have not been […]
President Kais Saied Monday picked former finance minister Elyes Fakhfekh to form a cabinet after the parliament early this month rejected a first government led by Habib Jemli, an independent named by Ennahda, the leading party in the legislature. Fakhfekh is chosen for the Prime Minister job after Jemli failed to win the vote of […]
Tunisia’s Former Minister of Economy, Hakim Ben Hammouda, who has been nominated by seven parties for the position of Prime Minister on Saturday briefed President Kais Saied on his strategy if confirmed. Speaking to the media after the meeting, Ben Hammouda said that the biggest challenge facing the next stage is “rebuilding the social contract” […]
Tunisia has turned down the invitation to participate in the Berlin Conference held this Sunday, January 19, because the invitation was late and because Tunis has not been involved in the preparatory meetings for the conference. ,” the Foreign Affairs Department said in a statement Saturday while expressing its thanks and consideration for the invitation […]
King Mohammed VI had Thursday a phone conversation with the newly elected President of Tunisia Kaïs Saïed during which they agreed to exchange visits, says the Royal Office in a communiqué. The phone call, at the initiative of the Moroccan Monarch, provided an opportunity “to underline the strong historical relations binding the two brotherly […]
The consortium led by Moroccan energy company NAREVA and French ENGIE group won an international bid for the construction of 120 MWp solar power plant in Gafsa, Tunisia. The consortium will be responsible for developing, designing, financing, building, operating and maintaining the photovoltaic power plant over a period of 20 years from commissioning. The Gafsa […]
The political deadlock in Tunisia is likely to go on for some time after the parliament on Friday rejected, in a confidence vote, the government formed by Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli, an independent who had been proposed by Islamist Ennahda Party. The coalition government formed of independent lawmakers was rejected after over 12 hours of […]