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Rached Ghannouchi

Tunisia Islamist leader hospitalised after health deteriorates

Rached Ghannouchi

Ghannouchi was speaker of the parliament dissolved in 2021

Tunisia Islamist leader hospitalised after health deteriorates

Ghannouchi was speaker of the parliament dissolved in 2021

Arab Music

Widely regarded as one of Tunisia’s most influential musicians

Tunisian music icon takes legal action over online smear campaign

Civil society in Tunisia

LTDH was among four Tunisian civil society groups that were awarded the Nobel Peace in 2015

Tunisia suspends Nobel Peace Prize-winning LTDH rights group

Tunisair

A need for structural reforms

Tunisia’s national carrier ramps up fleet in urgent recovery drive

Tunisian actor

Film and television actor who has had his shows performed for years to packed houses

Actor Lotfi Abdelli condemns prison sentence over satirical play

Freedom of Expression

Lawmaker Ahmed Saidani

Tunisian police arrest lawmaker who mocked president

Tunisia's conspiracy case

Accused of forming a clandestine security apparatus

Tunisia hands down jail terms of up to 35 years in conspiracy case

Libyan Crisis

Renewed push for regional diplomacy

Saied positions Tunisia as regional facilitator in Libya’s political crisis

Counter-terrorism

Rapid and precise counter-terrorism action

Tunisia scores security win as special forces take down terror cell

Freedom of the press

More journalists are being imprisoned in Tunisia

Tunisia sentences two prominent journalists to 3-1/2 years in prison

Tunisia floods

Extreme weather

Army mobilised as heavy rains trigger deadly floods across Tunisia

Tunisia's crisis

Coming weeks may prove decisive

Leader of Tunisia’s UGTT rescinds resignation amid union turmoil

Rached Ghannouchi

In detention since April 17, 2023

Tunisia’s appeals court upholds 22-year sentence for Ennahda leader

Freedom of the press

Tunisian journalists rally near the governments office, holding signs to protest press restrictions, call for greater freedom on November 20, 2025

Tunisian journalist Chatha Belhaj Mubarak freed after sentence cut

Mossad

An expertise that extended beyond drones

Tunis court hands life sentences over killing of Hamas drone engineer

UGTT

Point of no return

Tabboubi’s resignation shakes Tunisia’s powerful union at critical moment

Tunisia military

Tunisian Defence Minister Khaled Sehili speaks with US Ambassador Bill Bazzi during a meeting in Tunis, December 3, 2025.

US delivers security equipment to Tunisia under anti-terror programme

Cinema

Kaouther Ben Hania receives looks on during the closing ceremony of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, September 6, 2025.

Arab filmmakers land four films on Academy Awards shortlist

Book fair

For the pleasure of readers.

Tunis City Book Fair brings culture to the capital’s heart

Post-revolution Tunisia

Supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied rally in Tunis, December 17, 2025.

Fifteen years on, Tunisia struggles to balance economic reform, political division

EU aid to Tunisia

Tunisian President Kais Saied shakes hands with EU Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone at the Carthage Palace in Tunis, November 25, 2025.

EU upholds cooperation with Tunisia despite Saied’s sovereignty rhetoric

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