Browsing: Tunisia

Tunisian judges will strike for a week and hold a sit-in to protest a purge of their ranks, as tensions rise over the president’s efforts to…

President Kais Saied hosted a national dialogue in Tunisia on Saturday with the main political parties conspicuously absent from  the programme. The session on Saturday had representatives…

The United States (U.S.) accused Tunisia’s President Kais Saied of undermining the country’s democratic institutions after he fired dozens of judges amid a raft of measures…

After sacking dozens of judges, Tunisian President Kais Saied was accused by the US of a “alarming pattern” of actions “undermining” Tunisia’s independent institutions. According to…

Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied has relieved 57 judges of their jobs accusing them of corruption and protecting terrorists in a purge of the judiciary that comes…

Tunisia has opened the online voter registration to expatriates for the constitutional referendum scheduled for July 25. According to the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE),…

Tunisian President Kais Saied issued on Wednesday a decree to call voters to a referendum on a new constitution on July 25, the official gazette said,…

Not less than 76 people have been reported missing after a boat carrying approximately 100 people sank near Tunisia’s south-eastern city of Sfax. According to the…

Tunisia’s labour union, Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT) says it would hold a national strike over wages and the economy after refusing to take part…

Tunisian President Kais Saied announced on Thursday that preparations are underway to draft a new constitution, which will be submitted to a referendum slated for July…