Tunisian

Tunisian police used tear gas on hundreds of demonstrators as they clashed when protesters tried to reach the southern island of Djerba where the 18th Francophonie summit is due to take place. The crowds were trying to establish the fate…

The leader of the Islamist party Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, appeared Thursday before a court in Sousse (east) as part of an investigation for "money laundering" and "incitement to violence". Mr Ghannouchi, who headed the frozen…

The leader of Tunisian main opposition party was freed after being questioned by the country’s counterterrorism unit Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and terrorism financing through an association charity. Rached Ghannouchi, 81,…

President Kais Saied is seeking constitutional reforms which according to him will help in curbing extremism in the north African country. Weekly protests are still persistent in Tunisia. Tunisians took part in a demonstration organized…

The Tunisian lawyers weeklong strike continues, judges held a protest outside the capital’s courts when dozens of lawyers and activists gathered on the steps of the Palace of Justice in Tunis. Some shouted "Down with the coup" and others…

The head of Tunisian Ennahdha, opposition  party, Rached Ghannouchi, has condemned President Kais Saied's "authoritarian" rule and accused him of bad conduct towards the judges who he sacked on Thursday. Tunisia’s president last week…

A former Tunisian MP and vocal critic of President Kais Saied has been sentenced by a military court to five months in prison for assaulting police officers last year, his lawyer said. The verdict by the Tunis military court was…

A crowd estimated 2,000, lower than expected, took part on Sunday in the first demonstration of a new alliance to oppose a power grab by President Kais Saied. "We shall overcome," and "We are united, not divided," read banners of the…

The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) has organized a rally in the capital city, Tunis demanding justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera Palestinian-American correspondent shot and killed in the West Bank on Wednesday, 11th…

Tunisian oil operations to begin after shipwreck, the Equatorial Guinea-flagged oil tanker, Xelo, which sank in the Gulf of Gabes along Tunisia, has been checked with divers finding no leaks from fuel-laden ship. “The Tunisia branch of…