Soldiers hold rifles to guard the health center in the traditional Tunisian village of Kesra, while inside, military medics use other weapons to combat COVID-19: vaccines.
Tunisia is facing its worst coronavirus surge since the pandemic began, (...)
Tunisian authorities arrested another 150 people including local opposition leaders on Friday, bringing the total detained close to 800 in response to demonstrations this week against price and tax rises.
Protests, some violent, flared across (...)
Tunisian authorities arrested another 150 people including local opposition leaders on Friday, bringing the total detained close to 800 in response to demonstrations this week against price and tax rises.
Protests, some violent, flared across (...)
The father of the gunman who shot dead tourists in Tunisia this week said he was ashamed of his son and shocked by his actions.
"I could not comprehend it," Hakim Rezgui told ITV News, "I am so shocked, I have no idea who influenced him, or who put (...)
Tour operators from across Europe are evacuating their customers from Tunisia and cancelling travels to the country following the terror attack at a beach resort that left 39 people dead Friday.
British travel companies Thomson and First Choice say (...)
'I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence'
– John Lennon
Hardly a week now goes by in Tunisia without some form of violence. A protest gone awry, an assassination, an exchange of gunfire, a confiscation of a (...)
Following the resignation of Tunisian prime minister Hamadi Al-Jibali on 19 February in the wake of his failure to form a government of technocrats, the country's majority party, the Islamist Al-Nahda Movement, nominated Ali Laarayedh, the former (...)
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Friday asked Interior Minister Ali Larayedh, a hardliner from the main Islamist Ennahda party, to form a government within two weeks, his spokesperson said.
Marzouki's spokesman told a news conference Ennahda (...)
Despite a relative revival of tourism last summer, and a boom crop of grains, the Tunisian economy is still wobbly. The industrial sector has been surprisingly stable, but Tunisian experts say that a flare-up of political disturbances, on a scale (...)
2010
December
17 Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit-and-vegetable vendor in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzeid, sets fire to himself in front of a local municipal office in protest after being mistreated by police. The first mass demonstrations (...)
After the painful blow dealt by the country's president, Monsef Marzouki, to the government of Islamist Prime Minister Hamad Al-Jabali in response to its handling of the disturbances in Siliana province last month, the leaders of the three parties (...)
The governorate of Siliana 210km west of the capital Tunis rose up in revolt last week with hundreds of people being injured in the resulting violence. The uprising triggered similar uprisings across Tunisia's northwestern governorates, splintering (...)
Tunisian rights activist and president of the Foundation for the Future Nabila Hamza tells Ahram Online about political developments in her country since last year's ouster of Ben Ali regime
AHRAM ONLINE: How do you perceive the current process of (...)
Tunisian police broke up fighting in Tunis on Tuesday when pro-government Islamists attacked labor union members they blamed for inciting protests last week against the Islamist government.
Several hundred Islamists with knives and sticks charged a (...)
Tunisian opposition parties are seeking to achieve a vote of no-confidence within the National Constituent Assembly, following the recent clashes between protesters and police in the southwestern town of Siliana.
Opposition parties will present a (...)
In a remote town in Tunisia's interior, protesters angry over joblessness and harsh police tactics call for the downfall of new Islamist rulers, echoing the revolt that ignited the Arab Spring two years ago.
Siliana, 140 kilometres (90 miles) from (...)
TUNIS: Amnesty International is deeply concerned by reports that as many as 300 protesters and bystanders have been injured by the Tunisian police's use of excessive force in Siliana, a city south west of Tunis, during demonstrations on 27, 28 and (...)
Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki has asked the nation's Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali to appoint a new cabinet as protests over economic hardship continue to sweep the streets of the North African state. In a televised national address on Friday, (...)
Tunisian protesters riled over economic deprivation clashed with police on Wednesday and at least 100 people were injured, medical sources said, in further unrest in the country that spawned the Arab Spring uprisings.
Now ruled by an elected (...)
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is formally re-starting operations in Tunisia for the first time in 13 years and will immediately begin a cash-for-work project aimed at assisting the North African country's neediest people.WFP and the (...)
SYRIA
Syrian President Bashar Assad claims the country's "crisis" is drawing to a close even as forces unleash tank shells on opponents Wednesday and U.S. sanctions take aim at the Syrian leader and his senior aides for their brutal crackdowns. The (...)
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to end the persecution and imprisonment of a critical journalist and to overturn a four-year jail sentence of another.
Taoufik Ben Brik, a well-known contributor to European media (...)