Tunisia
Tunisia sees 14% budget gap in 2020, aims to halve it in 2021
Tunisia expects the coronavirus crisis to drive its budget deficit to 14% of gross domestic product this year, double the original target…
Protesters clash with police in Tunisia
Hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police in a provincial Tunisian town on Tuesday after authorities bulldozed an unlicensed cigarette kiosk, killing…
11 migrants die off Tunisia
At least 11 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Sunday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean…
Third of Tunisia’s business threatened with bankruptcy
The coronavirus pandemic has plunged Tunisia into an economic crisis that has cost tens of thousands of jobs and collapsed the country's…
Tunisia imposes night curfew to slow second wave of pandemic
Tunisian authorities will impose a curfew in the capital Tunis to slow a surge in coronavirus cases, months after stopping a first…
Tunisia to ban gatherings, cut public-sector work hours due to coronavirus
Tunisian authorities will ban all gatherings and reduce working hours for employees in the public sector in order to stop the rapid…
UPDATED: Police in Tunisia shoot dead three suspected militants after officer stabbed
Police in Tunisia chased and shot dead three suspected Islamist militants after they attacked two police officers, killing one of them, in…
Tunisia’s parliament approves a technocratic government
Tunisia’s parliament approved a technocratic government in a confidence vote on Wednesday, hoping to end months of political instability and focus on…
Tunisia’s incoming PM plans restructuring of economic ministries
Tunisia’s premier-designate plans to gather the ministries of finance, investment and state property into a single department to be led by economist…
Tunisian economy shrank by 21.6%
Tunisia's tourism-dependent economy shrank 21.6 % in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the same period last year, due to the…
Tunisia appoints interior minister Mechichi as the new prime minister
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Saturday designated the interior minister as the new prime minister to succeed Elyes Fakhfakh, who resigned over…
Making sense of Tunisia’s political crisis
Tunisia's government has collapsed less than five months after it was formed, plunging the North African democracy into a political crisis as…