The Latest Breaking News from Tunis

Tunisia will hold a presidential election on 6 October, the office of President Kais Saied announced Tuesday, though he has not indicated if he will seek a new five-year term after his 2019 election.

The people of Ben Guerdane survived off the Ras Jadir border crossing. Its closure hurt them, badly.

Al Ahly, based in Cairo, and Esperance, in Tunis, are among the most successful clubs in the history of the main club cup competition in Africa, the CAF Champions League.

Supporters denounce arrests of lawyers, journalists as ‘wave of repression’ shows no sign of slowing down.

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the Tunisian capital after a lawyer was allegedly tortured by police.

The recent arrests of two lawyers and two journalists in Tunisia for criticising the situation in the country come amid rising concerns over political and individual freedoms. President Kais Saied seized more powers in 2021 and later signed a decree that outlaws “spreading false news”, which journalists and opposition figures…

A Tunisian lawyers association on Sunday called for a nationwide strike after hooded police raided Tunisia’s bar association headquarters and arrested a prominent lawyer as authorities escalated a broad government crackdown that has ensnared political dissidents, non-governmental organizations and Black migrants.

Masked police are filmed storming the premises of the Bar Association’s Lawyers’ House to arrest lawyer Sonia Dahmani.

Asylum seekers from across Africa are becoming stranded, unable to return home and persecuted by authorities.