Tunisia

  • Jun 1, 2020
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US training plans will deepen Tunisian suspicions

AFRICOM says it is considering deploying a training brigade to Tunisia amid heightened insecurity in neighbouring Libya

Tunisia
  • May 19, 2020
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Tunisian calls for political overhaul risk instability

Critics of the government are calling for radical reforms to the country’s system of representative democracy

Tunisia
  • May 13, 2020
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Tunis’s attention will turn from health to the economy

No new COVID-19 cases have been reported in three days but the country is predicted to see its worst recession on record

Tunisia
  • Apr 22, 2020
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Tunisian border incident will raise security concerns

Hundreds have re-entered the country from Libya, having reportedly forced their way through a border checkpoint

Tunisia
  • Apr 16, 2020
  • 7 min read

COVID-19 will shatter Tunisian economic revival hopes

A new government had articulated plans to turn the economy around just as the coronavirus pandemic struck

Tunisia
  • Apr 3, 2020
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Tunisian premier may eclipse president in virus fight

The president has so far taken centre stage in combatting COVID-19, but MPs are debating special powers for the premier

Tunisia
  • Mar 31, 2020
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Tunis may struggle to contain COVID-19 social fallout

Protesters, violating lockdown orders, take to the streets to complain of food shortages and lack of financial support

Tunisia
  • Mar 26, 2020
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Maghreb lockdown rush may reflect low health capacity

Across North Africa, authorities have introduced stringent measures to counter COVID-19

North Africa