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Clandestine migration

Migrant boat sinks off Tunisia with at least 8 dead

Clandestine migration

Migrants' boat

Migrant boat sinks off Tunisia with at least 8 dead

Migrants' boat

Human rights

Families and relatives of the detained political opposition figures in the so-called conspiracy against state security case hold up photos of the detainees during a demonstration in front of the court in Tunis

France says Tunisian political dissidents did not receive fair trial

Ahmed Souab

Souab is a retired administrative judge and lawyer

Tunisian judge orders detention of prominent lawyer Souab

Ahmed Souab

Souab is among the lawyers acting for opposition leaders who received lengthy prison sentences on Saturday on conspiracy charges

Tunisia detains prominent lawyer Souab

Tunisian opposition

Forty people are being prosecuted in the case

Tunisia begins trial of prominent opposition leaders on conspiracy charges

Tunisia Archaeology

The Carthage Museum in Tunisia

Tunisia’s cultural heritage targeted by looters

Clandestine migration

Zarzis port

75 migrants stuck off Tunisia agree to go home

Tunisian Elections

Elections are due by the end of this year

Tunisian PM elected as new secular party leader

Nabil Karoui running for presidency

Tunisia media magnate to run for presidency

Culture

Jewish pilgrims light candles on the first day of the annual pilgrimage to the El Ghriba Synagogue

Muslims pray alongside Jews at Africa's oldest synagogue

Counter-terrorism

Moncef Kartas, a Tunisian national and member of the UN panel of experts for Libya

Tunisia rejects UN immunity claim for arms expert

Culture

Sabiha Ayari, a Tunisian potter in her fifties, works in the village of Sejnane

Tunisian potters pass on ancestral know-how

Migrant Crisis

Survivors of the shipwreck at a shelter in the Tunisian coastal city of Zarzis

60 migrants killed in shipwreck off Tunisia

Migrant Crisis

Libya's western coast is a main departure point for migrants from across Africa

Migrants drown off Tunisia coast after leaving Libya

Tunisia Tourism

Tunisian Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi

Tunisia broadens tourism horizons as industry rebounds

Tunisia Economy

Automobiles line up for gasoline at a gas station in Tunis

Tunisian fuel workers begin three-day strike

Tunisia Economy

Hundreds of retirees demonstrated in front of parliament this week demanding higher pensions to counter rising inflation

Tunisia raises minimum wage to defuse discontent

Tunisia Economy

A shopkeeper counts money in his shop at a bazaar in Tunis

Tunisia struggles with scourge of tax evasion

Tunisia Truth Commission

Its report is based on tens of thousands of interviews carried out since the panel was set up five years ago.

Tunisia truth commission calls on president apology

Golan Heights

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit speaks to Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf during a preparatory meeting with Arab foreign ministers ahead of the Arab summit in Tunis, Tunisia March 29, 2019.

Arabs hope to coordinate response to US move on Golan

Tunisian Politics

The report calls for reforms to dismantle a system of corruption, repression and dictatorship within state institutions

Tunisia panel calls for institutional reforms

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