Jabeur juggles religion and sport at dream French Open
Juggling sport and religion is helping Ons Jabeur to make a dream debut at the French Open. Jabeur, who is playing in the main singles draw at Roland Garros for...
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Tunisia detains six IS suspects
Tunisia has been under a state of emergency since November 2015, when a suicide bombing in Tunis claimed by IS killed 12 presidential guards Tunisia has detained six people in...
Tunisian public health sector struggles to heal itself
Tunis – Overcrowded hospitals, exhausted staff and disgruntled patients… Tunisia’s public health sector is struggling to heal its many maladies.Hours of waiting for treatment, angry patients and broken equipment have...
Plastic bag bans in Africa: Reality or fantasy?
Tunisia and Kenya recently joined the ranks of African countries banning the use of plastic bags – but poor waste management and a mentality of littering make the prospect of...
A Positive Step on a Rocky Road: Tunisia signs up...
As Tunisia becomes the first North African country to allow full access to the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, Oliver Windridge, founder of The ACtHPR Monitor, discusses the...
Switzerland returns millions linked to ex-leader to Tunisia
Switzerland is transferring $3.9m to Tunisia that had been frozen in connection with a close relative of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The Office of the Attorney General...
Tunisia confiscates property of businessmen arrested for graft
The Tunisian government has confiscated the property and frozen bank accounts of eight prominent businessmen arrested this week on suspicion of corruption in an unprecedented government campaign against graft, authorities...
Tunisia’s Decentralization Process at a Crossroads
Without a new decentralizing framework, elections for new local councils in Tunisia will not make them more responsive to local concerns. Shafik Sarsar’s resignation as head of Tunisia’s Independent High...
Tunisian PM vows to fight graft in the country
Tunisian prime minister has declared war against graft in the country. Youssef Chahed said on Wednesday that the government will “see the war through the end and there’s no choice.”...
Tunisia is less fragile than Turkey and Morocco (Study)
Tunisia ranks 89th out of a total of 178 countries, from the most to the least fragile in the annual Fragile States Index, established by the US think tank the...
