Tunisian

Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahdha party and one of the main opponents of President Kais Saied has appeared before the counter-terrorism court in Tunis. He was charged with incitement after allegedly referring to the police as…

Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union has accused President Kais Saied of targeting it as a distraction from record low election turnout and what's been called a "total failure" of his economic policies. On 3rd February UGTT chief…

A Tunisian appeals court has ruled that the prosecution of a queer activist in a landmark LGBTQ case is "null and void," an NGO and a judicial spokesman said. The decision in the case known as "students of Kairouan", concerns only…

Metro and bus traffic in the Tunisian capital ground to a halt on Monday, after employees of the state transport company held a strike over delays in the payment of wages and bonuses. The strike highlights the financial problems faced by…

In Tunisia, human rights activists protest outside an appeals court in Kairouan, a city in the centre of the country, about a man known as "Daniel" appeared before judges on the first day of an appeal hearing. The defendant is accused of…

The Tunisian electoral authority has announced that turnout for parliamentary elections stood at only 8,8%. Despite the low turnout, the lowest in any poll since the revolution in 2011, the president of the electoral authority described…

In Tunisia, President Kais Saied cast his ballot in a polling station inside a primary school in the capital, Tunis. Tunisians are voting in parliamentary elections to pick their representatives in the 166-seat assembly. Speaking…

Tunisians are going to the polls on 17th December to vote in parliamentary elections that parties opposed to President Kais Saied are boycotting. The country's parliament last convened in July 2021, and in March of this year was…

The secretary-general of Tunisia's powerful UGTT union has claimed that legislative elections due later this month serve no purpose. Speaking before an audience, Noureddine Taboubi, denounced President Kais Saied's constitutional reforms…

A four-year-old Tunisian girl who arrived in Italy in early October without her parents on a makeshift boat carrying illegal migrants was repatriated to Tunisia, authorities said. "A delegate of the Tunisian child protection accompanied…