Tag: Tunisia
Tunisia arrests comedian, TV host for ‘offending’ president
Tunisian authorities arrested a popular comedian and a television show host Friday for offending President Beji Caid Essebsi, whose office…
4 Tunisian police killed in ‘terrorist’ attack
Four Tunisian police were killed on Tuesday in what the government labelled a “terrorist attack” in a region known as…
Tunisia top table with dramatic win
Tunisia put power cuts and flooding behind them to seize the Group B initiative Thursday at the 2015 Africa Cup…
AFCON 2015: Zambia, Tunisia In Do-Or-Die Battle
Zambia face Tunisia today at Ebebiyin in a match that could decide their destiny at the 2015 Africa Cup in…
Tunisia policeman killed in suspected Islamist attack
Suspected Islamist extremists slit the throat of a Tunisian policeman south of the capital overnight, the interior ministry said on…
Essebsi, 88, sworn in as Tunisia president
Anti-Islamist Beji Caid Essebsi, 88, was sworn in as Tunisia’s first freely elected president at a ceremony in parliament on…
Essebsi wins Tunisia’s first free presidential vote
Veteran anti-Islamist politician Beji Caid Essebsi was declared the winner of Tunisia’s first free presidential election on Monday, capping off…
Presidential campaign gets under way in Tunisia
Campaigning opened Saturday for a presidential election in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, with secularist Beji Caid Essebsi…
Polls open in landmark Tunisia parliamentary election
Tunisians were voting Sunday in an election seen as pivotal to establishing democracy in the cradle of the Arab Spring…
Tunisia urges Libya to find missing journalists
Prime Minister Mongi Hamdi on Saturday urged Libya to locate two Tunisian journalists who went missing in the neighbouring violence-hit…
Tunisia begins landmark election race
Campaigning officially got under way Saturday for Tunisian parliamentary elections seen as a milestone in efforts to establish a democratic…
Police kill two women in tense region of Tunisia
Police killed two young women in a tense region of Tunisia early Saturday, mistaking them for members of an armed…
Egyptians leaving Libya after days at Tunisia border
Thousands of Egyptians who have been seeking to flee strife-torn Libya for days were being airlifted home Sunday after Tunisia’s…
Abducted Tunisian diplomats freed
Tunisian Prime Minister, Mehdi Jomaa, on Monday announced the release of two Tunisian diplomats who were abducted in Tripoli by…
Tunisian leader takes massive paycut
Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki announced on Friday his decision to voluntarily take a two-thirds pay cut as the government grapples…