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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 ...
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 ...
Joseph Aoun (pictured) is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy.; An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 20 deaths.; A series of wildfires in Southern California, United States, leaves at least 16 people dead and forces the evacuation of nearly 180,000 others.
Tunisia had requested a three-year $4 billion loan "to help stabilise its balance of payments position after its current account deficit widened to 7.1 percent of GDP last year." [ 22 ] Amnesty International asked the government to "publicly commit to respecting and protecting human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression ...
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 ...
On 7 October, the ISIE announced the results, Kais Saied was re-elected president of Tunisia with 90.69% but on a turnout of 28.8%, the lowest since 2011, with Ayachi Zammel winning 7.3% and Zouhair Maghzaoui winning 1.9%. [110]
The politics of Tunisia takes place within the framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, [1] with a president serving as head of state, prime minister as head of government, a unicameral legislature and a court system influenced by French civil law.
The 2021 Tunisian protests were a series of protests that started on 15 January 2021.Thousand of people rioted in cities and towns across Tunisia, which saw looting and arson as well as mass deployment of police and army in several cities and the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.