Tunisian

Tunisian President Kais Saied has rejected "foreign diktats" from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is in stalled talks with the heavily indebted country over a bailout package. "Regarding the IMF, foreign diktats that will…

President Saied issued two decrees, the first terminating Charfeddine's duties and a second appointing Kamel Feki as Interior Minister, the presidency said in a statement. Mr Feki is a law graduate and a former executive of the Ministry…

Tunisian President Kais Saied has met with the new speaker of parliament, Ibrahim Bouderbala, following his election during the assembly’s first sitting on Monday. The 71-year-old is the former chief of the Tunisian Bar Association and a…

Tunisia’s new parliament sat for the first time on Monday, but both local journalists working for private media and their international colleagues, were not allowed to attend. Only the state TV, radio, and news agency were allowed to…

Tunisian new parliament, elected in December and January in a vote with a turnout of 11%, sat for the first time on Monday in a session closed to all but state media and with the opposition coalition saying it would not recognise its…

Tunisian President Kais Saied has dissolved municipal councils months before they were due to be elected, further dismantling the systems of government developed after the 2011 revolution that brought democracy. The municipal councils…

Tunisian president has denounced racism and pointed to possible legal consequences for perpetrators 10 days after announcing a crackdown on illegal migration using language the African Union condemned as "racialised hate speech". During a…

Tunisian director Youssef Chebbi won the coveted Stallion of Yennenga award Saturday at the biennial pan-African Fespaco film festival for his murder mystery oeuvre "Ashkal". Tunis-born Chebbi, whose film centres on the investigation…

Chanting "No to racism" and holding placards hundreds of demonstrators marched through the streets of Tunis on Saturday. They denounced hate against migrants, days after the president claimed there was a plot to erase Tunisia's identity…

A Tunisian protest coalition says it would not stop working to unite the opposition against President Kais Saied despite the arrest of its top leaders, and added that it would hold a demonstration on 5th   March. Tunisian police have…