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Cash-strapped Tunisia wants to take the unprecedented step of borrowing billions from its central bank to address budget deficits and bandage its economic crisis, a step that experts warn could ...
Tunisia's powerful UGTT labour union condemned on Wednesday what it described as arbitrary arrest campaigns by the authorities, and renewed calls to its supporters to mobilise before planned ...
Leading opposition parties in Tunisia asserted Wednesday that politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for holding democratic elections later this year.
Tunisian authorities placed Abdel Karim Harouni, the senior official in the opposition Ennahda Islamist Party, under house arrest, the country's main opposition coalition said on Saturday. Harouni ...
The unstable political and economic situation in Tunisia has raised concerns among neighboring countries, including Italy. [5] Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has warned that if Tunisia's political and economic situation does not stabilize, there might be a "migratory wave" towards Europe. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has also ...
Tunisia's public prosecutor on Tuesday detained Saadia Mosbah, a prominent activist and head of a nongovernmental group that defends the rights of migrants, human rights groups said, hours after ...
The coup was immediately denounced by Ennahda, the Dignity Coalition and the Heart of Tunisia, the three main parties in parliament. [34] Former president Moncef Marzouki, who oversaw the transition to democracy after the revolution, also rejected the coup, calling it "the beginning of slipping into an even worse situation". [18] [22] [34]
9 August - 2023 Tunisia migrant boat disasters: Forty-one people are killed when a boat carrying 45 migrants from Sfax, Tunisia, capsizes and sinks in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy. [9] 14 August - Five people are killed and seven others missing after a boat carrying 35 migrants from Sfax, sinks in the Mediterranean ...