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We are coordinating with Tunisian authorities to return detained fishermen home: Foreign Ministry
Ambassador Amr Mahmoud Abbas, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Consular Affairs and Egyptians Abroad, has revealed that Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is continuing to monitor developments regarding an Egyptian fishing boat which was seized by the Tunisian navy.
Tunisia investigates embassy attack to determine explosives’ composition
Two bombers used large amounts of explosives in attack: judiciary office
2019 Carthage Film Festival kicks off in Tunis
Another video was displayed to pay tribute to the late Tunisian director Chawki Mejri and to some other Arab and African filmmakers who recently left us.
Without two states, there is no solution: UN Secretary General
Guterres calls for stepping up support for Arab States to fight terrorism
Egypt condemns Tunisian bus blast killing 12
Suspected suicide bomber targeted presidential guards in major street
Arab Spring and the rise of non-state actors
By Fadi Elhusseini In the past four years, Arabs have been living an endless Sisyphean ordeal, an unexpected nightmare after rising for what they called “the Arab Spring”. A very similar scenario was cloned in most of the Arab Spring countries. Alas, a hopeful revolution turned into belligerence, then into strife followed by a war, …
Tunis shooting leaves 7 dead
Serviceman opens fire on comrades, killing or lethally wounding six before being shot dead
Egyptian Ambassador attends international Tunisia Bardo demonstration
Tens of thousands, including world leaders, march in Tunis to denounce extremist violence
Egyptian expats to return from Libya on first flight from Algeria
Group crossed Dabdab border gate with Libya, opened under exceptional circumstances
192 Egyptians among first group to return from Libya via Tunisia
Foreign Ministry operation room says Libyan authorities closed Ras Ajdir border crossing
New Tunisian president talks up relations with Egypt, need for joint counterterrorism
Essebsi won Sunday’s run-off poll in Tunisia’s first democratic presidential elections
Tunisians vote again in presidential elections run-off
Candidates traded accusations, personal attacks in heated run-up to poll
Tunisians vote in parliamentary elections
Political parties cite high turnout, election monitors claim irregularities
The capitalist cure for terrorism
Military might alone won’t defeat Islamic State and its ilk. The US needs to promote economic empowerment
Three suspected jihadists dead in Tunisia police raid: Ministry
AFP – Security forces killed three suspected jihadists in an anti-terrorist operation Monday in a region of northwest Tunisia where Islamist militants shot dead four people last month, the interior ministry said. The police surrounded a house in the Jendouba region straddling the Algerian border and killed “three terrorists,” ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said, …
11 dead as Libya military plane crashes in Tunisia
The whole plane was completely burnt out.
Tunisia gets new constitution and caretaker cabinet
The prime minister named a caretaker cabinet tasked with organising fresh polls
Egypt’s ambassador in Tunis returns to Egypt
Ambassador recalled following Tunisian president’s UNGA address amid condemnation of it in Egypt
Tunisia rapper jailed for two years
Several cases relating to the freedom of expression have sparked outrage in the North African country since Ennahda’s rise to power
Tunisia topless protester faces new charges
Amina Sboui, better known by her pseudonym Tyler, will be charged under the “criminal conspiracy” section of the penal code
3 Femen women held in Tunis after baring breasts: AFP
The women, two French and the other German, shouted: “Free Amina,” in reference to the young Tunisian woman imprisoned for protesting against hardline Islamists and awaiting trial for illegally possessing pepper spray.
Salafists in Tunis for banned meet clash with police
Clashes also took place in Kairouan
Hundreds protest against terrorism in Tunis
Tunisians protested on Friday against “terrorism” after the government said two wanted jihadist groups had ties with Al-Qaeda.
Tunisia releases photos of politician’s suspected assassin
The facebook page of Tunisia’s interior ministry are published the photos of five Islamists wanted for the assassination of Chokri Belaid
Sabahy meets Tunisian president
Hamdeen Sabahy meets with high-level government officials in Tunis
Tunisian vendor who set self alight dies: official
Dies from severe burns
Tunisia new PM starts work on forming government
Larayedh has until 8 March to present a new government to the head of state, Marzouki’s spokesman said, adding that the president urged him to do so “as quickly as possible because the country cannot wait any longer.”
Tunisia jihadists on patrol as tensions simmer
The first jihadist patrols were seen in Sidi Bouzid, cradle of the revolution, a day after the funeral of Belaid last Friday
Tunisia in political limbo after PM gamble
The ministers of President Moncef Marzouki’s party in the ruling Ennahda-led coalition are on the verge of stepping down
Thousands gather for Tunisian slain politician’s funeral
Tunisian capital at a near standstill during burial of Chokri Belaid