What will Trump’s North Africa policy look like?
“If Tunisia receives assistance, it will be given mainly to support Tunisia’s armed forces, security units.” Africa had been largely absent from the debates and speeches of the two US...
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Kobler praises Tunisian efforts to broker Libyan peace
Tunisia’s efforts to help solve the crisis in Libya came in for praise from UN Special Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler when he met the Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui...
Did you know that a Tunisian pope created Valentine’s Day?
Beyond the flood of everything red and heart-shaped, very little about Valentine’s Day can be deemed factual and it is quite hard to distinguish between the historical and the mythical....
Chahed in Berlin: Tunisia is not a transit country for...
The repatriation of 1500 irregular Tunisian emigrants took centre stage at a meeting between Prime Minister Youssef Chahed and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday in Berlin. Chahed also discussed...
Tunisia: BCT’s intervention on money market reaches record high in...
After a slight easing in October 2016, bank liquidity pressures reemerged, the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) announced on Monday. These pressures are bearing the mark of restrictive effects stemming...
Libya: Why it went wrong, and what should be done
The current power vacuum in Libya came about because of the poor intervention of the West, which in the wake of the revolution of 2011 did not contribute enough towards...
ISIS-linked kickboxer gets six-year jail term
Wife also among four convicted of terrorism charges – A Milan court on Tuesday sentenced Abderrahim Moutaharrik, a Moroccan competitive kickboxer who was jailed in April over accusations he is...
Tunisian PM bluntly rejects German blame for Berlin truck attack
Tunisia’s prime minister on Tuesday rejected German claims that his country has been blocking the return of rejected asylum seekers including the key suspect in the Berlin attack, hours ahead...
EBRD discussing co-investments with Gulf sovereign funds
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is in talks with Gulf sovereign wealth funds to invest jointly, and hopes to complete a round of fund-raising for such investments by...
The Boy Who Started the Syrian War Tells His Story
“If we had known what would happen, we’d never have written that graffiti,” says Mouawiya Syasneh in The Boy Who Started The Syrian War, a recent Al Jazeera documentary that tells...
