Tunisian President Kais Saied is standing for a second term in an election set for October 6. Accused of authoritarianism by the opposition, the incumbent is maintaining an iron grip on the country’s political life, which has seen arrests of...
Recently appointed social affairs minister Kamel Madouri will take over as Tunisian prime minister after his predecessor, Ahmed Hachani, was removed for no explicit reason on Wednesday by President Kais Saied, whose reelection campaign is under...
Abir Moussi, a fierce critic of incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied regarded as a potential candidate in the upcoming presidential election, was given a two-year jail sentence on Monday for criticising the country's High Independent Authority...
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied said Friday he will stand for re-election in an October vote. The announcement comes after Amnesty International said earlier this week that Tunisian authorities had intensified a “crackdown” on the political...
Sonia Dahmani, a prominent Tunisian lawyer known for her criticism of President Kais Saied, has been sentenced to one year in prison, her legal representative said on Saturday. Dahmani's sentence comes as rights organisations say that Tunisian...
In power since 2019, President Kaïs Saïed announced on Tuesday Tunisia will hold a presidential election on October 6. He did not specify whether he would run for re-election.
Hundreds of lawyers, activists and others demonstrated in Tunis on Thursday over the arrest of two lawyers in police raids on the national bar association, AFP journalists said.
The recent arrests of two lawyers and two journalists in Tunisia for criticising the situation in the country come amid enduring concerns for the state of political and individual freedoms since President Kais Saied seized more powers in 2021 and...
A Tunisian lawyers association on Sunday called for a nationwide strike after hooded police raided Tunisia’s bar association headquarters and arrested a prominent lawyer as authorities escalated a broad government crackdown that has ensnared...
Around 40 Tunisian migrants attempting to reach Italy by sea have been missing for five days, the Tunisian National Guard said on Tuesday.
Around 200 Tunisian bakers staged a sit-in Monday after a government decision to stop selling them subsidised flour, a move threatening the closure of hundreds of bakeries.
Tunisian President Kais Saied has dismissed Prime Minister Najla Bouden, the first woman to lead a government in the North African country, according to a video from the presidency on Tuesday evening. No explanation was given.
Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Tunisia to put an end to what it called the "collective expulsions" of black African migrants to a desert area near the Libyan border.
Racial tensions in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax flared into violence targeting migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, dozens of whom were forcibly evicted from the city, witnesses said Wednesday.
Tunisia is hosting the leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Union on Sunday for talks aimed at smoothing the way for an international bailout and restoring stability to a country that has become a major source of migration to Europe.
The Mediterranean migrants crisis was one of the main topics discussed by Tunisa's foreign minister Nabil Ammar and his French counterpart Catherine Colonna during their first meeting in Paris. In an interview with FRANCE 24, Nabil Ammar said that...
A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced Rached Ghannouchi, one of the main opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied, to a year in prison on terrorism-related charges, local media reported.
A Tunisian investigative judge ordered on Thursday the imprisonment of Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of main opposition party Ennahda and a prominent critic of President Kais Saied, the politician's lawyer told Reuters.
Tunisian police on Monday detained Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi, his party said, in a move that marks an escalation in a campaign of arrests that has already targeted numerous high-profile opponents ofPresident Kais Saied.
Hundreds protested in the Tunisian capital on Sunday for the release of about 20 opponents of President Kais Saied arrested since February.
At least five African migrants died and another 28 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, an official of a local rights group said.
