Tunisia removes hundreds of migrants to desert border region – rights group, lawmaker
Tunis, TunisiaReuters Tunisia has removed hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants to a desolate area along the border with Libya, a local rights group and a lawmaker said on Wednesday, with witnesses reporting dozens more put on outbound trains following days of violence. Disturbances between migrants and residents went on for a week in the port […]
Tunisia’s financial crisis leaves the sick struggling to find medicine
Tunis, TunisiaReuters Sick Tunisians face a frantic struggle to find some medicines because the cash-strapped state has reduced imports, leaving doctors unable to control debilitating health problems and patients turning to informal markets for their medication. Hundreds of medicines have been missing for months, pharmacies say, including important treatments for heart disease, cancer and diabetes […]
As drought withers Tunisian fields, state feels financial pinch
Tunis, TunisiaReuters As rains failed, Tunisian farmers watched their crops wither this spring, harvesting early to salvage some as animal feed and piling costs on a state struggling to afford wheat imports with bakeries running out of bread. At his farm just outside Tunis, Hasan Chetoui stood clutching dry sheaves of wheat, the ears empty […]
Attack near Tunisia synagogue kills four
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters An attack near a synagogue in Tunisia killed two security officers and two visitors on Tuesday the government said amid an annual pilgrimage to the island of Djerba that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel. The attack was staged by a guard at a naval installation on Djerba who used […]
Tunisia finds 70 drowned migrants, morgues running out of space
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters Coastguards have pulled the bodies of at least 70 drowned migrants from waters off Tunisia, where morgues are running out of space and authorities are struggling to contain a surge in crossings, officials said on Monday. Another two boats sank on Monday near the coastal city of Sfax, Faouzi Masmoudi, a judicial […]
Tunisian police detain Ennahda leader Ghannouchi, evacuate party headquarters
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters Tunisian police on Monday detained Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi, the most prominent critic of President Kais Saied, his party said, a move marking an escalation of a campaign of arrests that has targeted many high-profile opponents of Saied. Hours after Ghannouchi’s arrest, police raided the party headquarters and evacuated all […]
Five African migrants die, 28 missing after boat sinks off Tunisia
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters At least five African migrants died and another 28 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, an official of a local rights group said. Romadan Ben Omar, the official in the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights, said that coast guard […]
Wow!: Shining example? Solar power boosts struggling Tunisian school
A solar-powered school in northern Tunisia shows how the country’s lagging schools might be turned around – and renewables boosted. MENNA FAROUK, of Thomson Reuters Foundaton, reports…
African migrants suffer under crackdown in Tunisia
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters Since Tunisia’s President announced a crackdown on illegal immigration last month using language the African Union denounced as racialised, Malian construction worker Mohamed Kony has been evicted from his apartment and sacked from his job. Unemployed, homeless and without legal residency, he now fears he will face the fate of several of […]
Tunisia detains more dissidents amid growing crackdown
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters Tunisian police detained two prominent dissidents and surrounded the home of a third on Wednesday, part of an escalating crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied, who has labelled his opponents traitors and criminals. The arrests, along with others this month, have targeted some of Saied’s most important critics along with other […]