A New U.S. Strategy to Bolster Tunisia’s Struggling Democracy
The country that set off the Arab Spring of 2011 is now widely hailed as its only success story. However, the factors that have aided the formation of the post-2011...
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Tunisia tells ports to deny anti-migrant ship entry
A port director in Tunisia says authorities have instructed commercial ports in the North African nation to deny access to a ship rented by European identity groups and sailing the...
Tunisia End-of-Term Report 2014-2016
In early 2017, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the end of term report for Tunisia’s first action plan. The report covers the full action plan implementation period of September...
External powers targeting Arab identity, unity, says Syrian president
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says foreign powers have desperately attempted to divide Arab nations by targeting their identity and igniting strife among them. “The external interventions will continue with the...
Stability in Tunis requires stability in Libya, Tunisian president tells...
Meeting in Tunis Monday, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has told Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj that it was very much in Tunisia’s interests to see stability and security restored in...
Tunisian fishermen vow to prevent anti-immigrant ship from docking
Tunisian fishermen vowed Sunday to block a ship carrying far-right activists from docking at their port, dealing a fresh blow to their mission to disrupt the flow of migrant boats...
Tunisia loses swathes of forest in fires
Around 2,000 hectares of forest in Tunisia have gone up in flames over the past week, with some of the fires probably started deliberately, the authorities said on Saturday. Many...
UK hails Tunisia’s ‘hard work’ on security after terror attacks
Britain on Thursday applauded Tunisia’s “patient hard work” to boost security following the 2015 jihadist attacks that killed dozens of tourists, including 30 Britons at a beach resort. “We know...
Thomas Cook to re-offer trips to Tunisia
UK travel agent Thomas Cook has announced that it could start offering package holidays to Tunisia as soon as spring 2018. Thomas Cook has not offered packages to the country...
Tunisia’s Nobel prize-winning union meets Bashar al-Assad
UGTT called for support for the Syrian president in his ‘war against terrorism’ A delegation from the Nobel-prize winning Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) has sparked controversy after a delegation...
