The Latest Breaking News from Tunis

European leaders and Tunisia’s president have announced progress in the building of hoped-for closer economic and trade relations and on measures to combat the often lethal smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea

Even in defeat the Tunisian tennis player has captured the imagination in a country labouring under authoritarian rule

Critics of deal say EU funds should have conditions attached related to human rights and democracy

Migrant rescue group says it has lost contact with a large group of Black African migrants expelled from Tunisia.

More than 1,000 people were bussed to borders with Libya, Algeria – and left with no food, water, shelter or way out.

Tunisian security forces in Sfax have rounded up hundreds of people from sub-Saharan Africa, including children, and dropped them in a no man’s land between the Tunisian and Libyan border, where they remain trapped with neither food nor water. These forced deportations carried out by the security services come against…

Calm has been partially restored in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax after xenophobic violence targeting sub-Saharan migrants flared up once again. The violence was triggered by the death a local man following an altercation between locals and migrants.

Tarak Mahdi, a Tunisian Member of Parliament, live-streamed and published the aftermath of the shocking events between a Tunisian man and three others, who he said were sub-Saharan migrants in the city of Sfax. The footage filmed by the assailants and residents shows the outbreak of violence. The police then…

Tensions have spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city after three migrants were detained in the death of a local man