The Latest Breaking News from Tunisia

Tunisia's powerful labour union said on Monday it would hold a national strike over wages and the economy after refusing to take part in a limited dialogue proposed by the president as he rewrites the constitution.

Tunisia's powerful UGTT union will boycott an advisory committee being set up by President Kais Saied to discuss political and economic reforms, a union spokesman said.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry, in collaboration with Interpol, is hosting Monday a workshop on confronting emerging terrorist organizations and phenomena in the Middle East and Africa. The workshop is hosted by the Egyptian Police Academy until May 25. The participating countries include Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,…

Tunisia's main opposition party, the Islamist Ennahda, rejected on Sunday President Kais Saied's decision to name members of an advisory committee to draft a new constitution for a "new republic", it said in a statement.

Tunisia's political parties pledged to fight President Kais Saied's decision to exclude them from key political reforms including the drafting of a new constitution, accusing him of seeking to consolidate autocratic rule.

Tunisia’s budget deficit will expand to 9.7% of GDP this year, compared to a previously expected 6.7%, due to the stronger dollar and sharp increase in grain and energy prices, the central bank governor said on Friday. Marouan Abassi added at an economic conference in Sfax that Tunisia needs additional…

The Tunisian president Kais Saied named on Friday Sadok Belaid, the veteran law professor to head an advisory committee tasked with drafting a new constitution to establish "a new republic", the presidency said on Friday.

At least 4 migrants died and another 10 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a security official said.

Economists fear Sri Lanka could be first of several, with IMF in talks with Egypt, Tunisia and Pakistan

A gas leak caused a blast at the home of Tunisia's interior minister on Monday, leaving him unhurt but causing slight burns to his wife, a security official said.

Tunisia’s balance of trade deficit widened by 50% to 6.6 billion dinars ($2.2 billion) in the first four months of this year compared to 4.4 billion dinars in the same period last year, the state Institute of Statistics said. The deficit has been one of the main problems facing Tunisia…