Tag: Tunisia

(Tunisia/Libya) Tunisian President Saied to visit Libya to back ‘democratic path’ (Al Jazeera)

Tunisian President Kais Saied’s visit – the first since 2012 – comes days after the unity government was sworn in. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/17/tunisias-saied-to-visit-libya

(Tunisia) Corruption in Tunisia: fish rots from the head down wards (CIDOB)

Francis Ghilès What passes for democratic politics in Tunis has become in the words of one former minister “a swamp”. The dire economic and social...

(Tunisia) The President of Tunisia Slanders the Jews (BESA Center)

Edy Cohen The president of Tunisia, disturbed by demonstrations against his country’s economic mismanagement, pulled out the one card that has always worked for Arab presidents...

(Tunisia) Tunisia: Police Arrest, Use Violence Against LGBTI Activists (HRW)

Tunisian security forces have repeatedly targeted protesters, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) activists at protests, Human Rights Watch said today. https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/23/tunisia-police-arrest-use-violence-against-lgbti-activists

(Tunisia/Islamic State) IS Claims Killing of 4 Tunisia Soldiers, Beheading: Site (The Defense Post)

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the February 3 killing of four soldiers in a rugged region of central Tunisia, SITE Intelligence Group reported. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/02/19/is-claims-killing-4-tunisia-soldiers/

(Tunisia) Tunisia: The Pending Goals of the Revolution (Fair Observer)

Anouar Jamaoui https://www.fairobserver.com/region/middle_east_north_africa/anouar-jamaoui-tunisia-protests-revolution-arab-spring-10-years-on-inequality-unemployment-human-rights-news-71621/

(Tunisia) Tunisia: Detecting change with remote sensing (IFAD)

https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/publication/asset/42425306

(Tunisia) BDC Snapshots: Tunisia’s persistent economic woes may endanger its fledgling democracy (Brookings)

Yasmina Abouzzohour https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/bdc-snapshots-tunisias-persistent-economic-woes-may-endanger-its-fledgling-democracy/

(Tunisia) Police fire water cannon as Tunisians march on parliament (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of protesters march towards parliament as the government faces a confidence vote. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/26/police-fire-water-cannons-as-tunisians-march-on-parliament

(Tunisia) Tunisian border traders, smugglers struggle to survive amid COVID (Sam Kimball, Al Jazeera)

Strict coronavirus restrictions have hit vital border trade in southeast Tunisia hard, triggering an exodus to Europe. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/1/24/tunisian-border-traders-smugglers-struggle-to-survive-amid-covid

(Tunisia) Tunisia: Protests continue against police brutality, corruption (Al Jazeera)

Tunisians march against police brutality, inequality, as government bans gatherings amid surge in COVID-19 cases. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/24/tunisia-protests-continue-against-police-brutality-corruption

(Tunisia) ‘Social justice and work’: Tunisians rise up again (Al Jazeera)

Demonstrators tell Al Jazeera the revolution’s promises 10 years ago have not translated into a just society. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/23/tunisia-economic-woes-at-the-heart-of-new-anti-govt-protests

(Tunisia) Ten years in, Tunisian democracy remains a work in progress (Sharan Grewal, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/22/ten-years-in-tunisian-democracy-remains-a-work-in-progress/

(Tunisia) Tunisia mothers decry wave of ‘arbitrary’ arrests after unrest (Al Jazeera)

Minors are arrested unlawfully and will go on trial in the absence of their parents or representatives, lawyers say. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/22/tunisia-mothers-decry-wave-of-arbitrary-arrests-after-unrest

(Tunisia) Tunisia’s burgeoning youth-led protests in 700 words (Al Jazeera)

A look inside escalating demonstrations rocking the North African country amid restrictive COVID-19 containment measures. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/20/tunisias-youth-led-protests-explained

(Tunisia) Tunisians rally to demand release of detained protesters (Al Jazeera)

Daytime protests in recent days have been followed by nighttime violence, with COVID-19 restrictions compounding a wider economic malaise. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/20/tunisians-protest-against-mass-arrests-as-riots-continue