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Tunisia and EU sign pact to stem migration

Tunisia and the European Union on Sunday signed a "strategic partnership" deal that included combatting human traffickers and tightening borders during a sharp increase in boats leaving the North African nation for Europe. The deal followed weeks of talks and Europe's pledge of major aid to Tunisia amounting to €1bn ($1.12bn) to help its battered economy, rescue state finances and deal with a migration crisis. Most funds are contingent on economic reforms. "It contains agreements […]

17 July 2023

International

Tunisia: Dozens dead after migrant boats sink off the coast

At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died off the Tunisian coast after their two boats sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean sea to Italy on Sunday. The Tunisian coastguard, which was first at the scene, said it had managed to rescue 11 people. In the last week the coastguard said it had stopped about 80 boats heading for Italy and detained more than 3,000 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan African […]

27 March 2023

International

Tunisia: Independent press barred as parliament elects speaker in first session

Independent and foreign members of the press were barred on Monday from attending the first session of Tunisia's new parliament, which has also not been recognised by the country's main opposition coalition. Journalists protested against their exclusion from the parliamentary session, gathering at the entrance of parliament and chanting: "Lawmakers it is a shame. The press is under siege". "It is a scandal and a serious violation of press freedom. It harms […]

14 March 2023

International

Thousands protest in Tunisia against president in major trade union rally

Thousands took to the streets of Tunisia's capital as the country's powerful UGTT labour union held a major protest against President Kais Saied. Demonstrators marched down Habib Bourguiba Avenue in central Tunis on Saturday, chanting slogans and holding up signs against Saied's power grab and recent crackdown on critics. Tunisia has been engulfed in political and economic crises since July 2021, when Saied unilaterally suspended parliament and dissolved the government in […]

5 March 2023

International

Ex-Tunisia President condemns global hypocrisy towards Qatar World Cup

INTERNATIONAL Former Tunisian President, Monsef Marzouki, said that Qatar's success in organising the World Cup is a great incentive for Arabs, Muslims and all countries of the world and confirmation that they can perform miracles if there is political and popular will. He criticised the "hypocrisy" of Western countries and their adoption of a double discourse, especially during the Western media's coverage of this Qatar achievement. Marzouki told Qatar's Al Jazeera that […]

23 November 2022

International

Tunisia police use excessive force against teacher protests

Tunisian police have used excessive force against teachers who protested on Thursday in front of the Ministry of Education, demanding authorities provide them with permanent jobs. According to the National Coordination of Representatives, the teachers were forced to end their protest after being subjected to "all forms of violence". Spokesperson for the National Coordination of Representatives, Malik Al-Ayyari, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: "The suffering of the contract-based teachers has been increasing as […]

1 October 2022

International

11 Tunisian parties announce boycott of the December elections

The Afek Tounes Party announced, on Thursday, its intention to boycott the early legislative elections on 17th December. By so doing, Afeq Tounes becomes the eleventh party to announce its boycott of the elections after Ennahda, Heart of Tunisia, Dignity Coalition, Movement Party, Al Amal, the Republican Party, Workers' Party, Democratic Modernist Pole, Democratic Current, and the Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties. In a statement, the Afeq Tounes party […]

23 September 2022

International

Morocco, Tunisia recall envoys over Western Sahara row

Tunisia announced yesterday that it has recalled its ambassador to Morocco for consultations following Rabat doing the same the day before in response to Tunisian president Kais Saied hosting the head of the Polisario Front, a movement seeking independence for the disputed Western Sahara territory. President Saied met with Brahim Ghali ahead of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development summit, which convened yesterday and was also hosted in the North African […]

28 August 2022

International

High hopes as Algerian tourists return to Tunisia after two years of border closure

INTERNATIONAL In the back office of his travel agency in rue Belouizdad in Algiers, Mohamed reviewed one last time the list of his clients who were about to cross the Algerian-Tunisian border. The reopening of the land border that had been closed since March 2020 following the coronavirus pandemic, was announced on 5 July by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in the presence of his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied, on the occasion of the 60th […]

16 August 2022

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