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 Amazigh - an indigenous ethnic group present in North Africa for thousands of years - now officially represent only a small minority of the country's population, but in the mountains of the south, the Amazigh culture and language still survive
Africa Tunisia After 1960, October 2022 was the second driest month in Tunisia, with a cumulative rainfall of 92,8 millimetres, only 9% of the October average; National Institute of Meteorology reported a rainfall deficit of 90%
Africa Tunisia Staff from state-owned public transport firm Transtu have demonstrated outside the prime minister's office yesterday; the strike, called by UGTT union, reportedly froze "the majority" of transport services across the capital of almost three million people
Africa Tunisia Tunisia's powerful trade union, the UGTT, has warned the country's president that chaos could ensue if the second round of parliamentary elections is not postponed