Africa Tunisia The country went to the polls for early general elections yesterday, in the shadow of party boycott decisions; 1.058 candidates, 120 of them women, represent 161 constituencies and compete for the 161 Assembly seats
Africa Tunisia The Tunisian online newspaper Business News has decided to boycott the early parliamentary elections in Tunisia, the campaign for which began on 25 November, thus not covering the elections
Africa Tunisia Ministry of Education announced that 132 new rural school transport bus routes will be operational in the various governorates in January 2023, following the delivery of 95 rural school transport buses, enabling 7.600 more pupils to benefit from it
Africa Tunisia The European Union will grant the country financial support of €100 million to alleviate the impact of the pandemic and support economic activity in an agreement to be signed today
Africa Tunisia The 33rd edition of the Carthage Film Festival finishes today in the Tunisian capital, with 72 countries represented and over 40 films
Africa Tunisia Football's world governing body, FIFA, has warned the Tunisian Football Federation that its team's participation in the 2022 World Cup could be at risk if government interference is found within the organisation
Africa Tunisia Tunisians have been hit in recent weeks by soaring food prices and shortages of staples including bottled water, rice and sugar, threatening to turn the simmering discontent in the country into a wider unrest
Africa Tunisia Tunisia's central bank raised its key interest rate by 25 bps to 7,25% to combat inflation, the second hike in five months
Africa Tunisia The country has just passed a law that imprisons those who spread "disinformation" for up to 5 years; critics of the law - like political opponents of President Saied, journalists and fact-checkers - denounce it as a mechanism to uniformly punish dissent
Africa Tunisia The main opposition alliance declared at a press conference that it will not participate in the December vote to replace the parliament dissolved by the president, stating that the boycott is a response to Kais Saied's policy
Africa Tunisia The country is aspiring to create its own space agency, indicating at a recent meeting that a project is already under consideration by specialized engineers and emphasising that the country has all the technical and scientific qualities
Africa Tunisia Due to growing discontent over President Kais Saied's democratic backsliding, the US is considering suspending a $500 million economic aid to the country
Africa Tunisia The Tunisian judiciary has suspended the dismissal of some 50 judges, decided in early June by President Kais Saied and described as an 'attack on the rule of law' by several NGOs