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7 Apr
A British man Russ Cook on Sunday completed running the length of Africa, after taking off from the southernmost point of the continent in South Africa on April 22, 2023. Cook, nicknamed the Hardest Geezer, ended his run in Cape Angela, Tunisia on Sunday. He began the run in Cape Agulhas in South Africa. The…
27 Mar
Four people were condemned to death and two sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after a decade-long investigation into the 2013 killing of Tunisian secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid. Tunisia still hands down death sentences, particularly in "terrorism" cases, even though a de facto moratorium in effect since 1991 means they are effectively commuted…
2 Nov
Tunisia's parliament on Thursday began debating a bill that would criminalise any normalisation of ties with Israel as fighting rages between Israeli forces and Gaza's Hamas rulers.
2 Nov
Tunisia's president said Wednesday that the escape of five prisoners convicted of "terrorism" was a well-planned operation that had clearly been in the pipeline for "months".
14 Sep 2023
Tunisia has barred entry to a delegation from the European Parliament, after EU lawmakers criticised a deal Brussels struck with Tunis to stem migration, officials said on Thursday.
14 Sep 2023
Head Coach of Nigeria’s U18 Women Handball team, Shittu Agboola, has released the final list of players that will participate at the 19th Africa Women’s Youth Nations Championship, which will hold in Monastir, Tunisia. The championship will hold from September 16 to 23. The national U18 girls have been in camp at the Rowe Park…
6 Sep 2023
Two leaders of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha have been arrested, the party said Wednesday, in the latest move against it by President Kais Saied's government.
27 Jul 2023
More than 900 migrants have drowned off Tunisia's coast so far this year as they tried to reach Europe by boat, the North African country's government said Thursday.
25 Jul 2023
Some 300 protesters rallied in Tunis Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of President Kais Saied's adoption of sweeping powers and demand the release of some 20 detained opposition figures. "Down with the coup, freedom for all the prisoners," the protesters chanted. Addressing the crowd that gathered in the heart of the capital, braving temperatures…
17 Jul 2023
An Arab rights group called Monday for international help for around 360 sub-Saharan migrants who Libyan authorities say were rescued after having been abandoned in the desert by Tunisian police on the border with Libya
7 Jul 2023
Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Tunisia to put an end to what it called the "collective expulsions" of Black African migrants to a desert area near the Libyan border.
4 Jul 2023
Three African migrants have been arrested as suspects in the stabbing death of a local man in Tunisia's coastal city of Sfax, a court spokesman said on Tuesday. Sfax, Tunisia's second-largest city, is a departure point for many migrants hoping to reach Italy, and tensions have been rising there for months. Police fired tear gas…

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