August 30, 2023
Tunisia: As Summer Fades, Tunisians Brace for Grim Fall
The streets of Tunis seem a bit dustier and more broken as a sizzling summer fades and those Tunisians who can afford vacations return home to an uncertain fall. Read more »
August 22, 2023
Tunisia: In Tunisia, Climate of Fear Shrinks Options for Sub-Saharan Africans
One-month-old Ishmael knows nothing beyond a scrappy migrant camp in Tunis, its makeshift tents, buttressed with plastic bags, offering respite from a scorching August sun. Read more »
July 18, 2023
Tunisia: EU-Tunisia Deal Seeks to Plug Irregular Migration, but Will It Work?
Tunisia has overtaken Libya as the top embarkation point for African migrants heading to Europe starting in Italy. Tunisia's leaders have recently signed a deal with the EU to work… Read more »
May 10, 2023
Tunisia: Attack Near Tunisian Synagogue Kills 4
A Tunisian naval guard killed four people and injured nine others Tuesday as he tried to reach a synagogue on the island of Djerba. Read more »
March 27, 2023
Tunisia: 29 Migrant Bodies Recovered Off Tunisian Coast
The bodies of at least 29 people, many of them sub-Saharan Africans, were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend off the coast of Tunisia, according to the Tunisian… Read more »
March 03, 2023
Tunisia: Arrests in Tunisia Alarm U.S. Diplomats
U.S. officials say they are alarmed by a wave of arrests of opposition figures in Tunisia, including reports they are being targeted because they were in contact with U.S.… Read more »
March 02, 2023
Tunisia: Racist Attacks, Criticism of President Mount After Controversial Remarks
Sub-Saharan African migrants are leaving Tunisia amid an increase in racist attacks, following controversial comments by the country's president, Kais Saied. Read more »
February 04, 2023
Tunisia: Africans Rescued in Mediterranean
Italy's coast guard Friday found eight bodies, including the body of a pregnant woman, on a migrant vessel that was attempting to make the journey across the Mediterranean from… Read more »
December 29, 2022
Tunisia: Many Leaving Tunisia As Democracy Unravels, Economy Flounders
The photo of 15-year-old Walid Zreidat stares out from a banner, a serious-looking youngster with bright brown eyes and a Levi's T-shirt. Flanking him are those of 17 other… Read more »
November 17, 2022
Tunisia: Being Black in Tunisia
Growing up in a working-class Tunis neighborhood, Zied Rouine didn't think much about his skin color. Not when children insulted him at school, or when his football teammates… Read more »
August 25, 2022
Tunisia: Ennahdha Party Faces Uncertain Future
A decade after his triumphant return to Tunisia after years in political exile, Rached Ghannouchi is keenly aware that he and his Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party may again be… Read more »
August 16, 2022
Tunisia: A New Fight for Press Freedom
Mohamed Yassine Jelassi remembers his prison days under Tunisia's pre-revolution dictatorship, but mostly the heady ones a few years later -- as a journalist covering the country's… Read more »
August 09, 2022
Tunisia: With New Constitution, Tunisia Begins Uncertain Chapter
Scouting for plastic refuse along the capital's broken streets, Mohammed describes brighter days working in Tunisia's once-booming tourism industry, earning salary, room and board… Read more »
July 26, 2022
Tunisia: Tunisia's President Cheers Outcome of Controversial Referendum
Tunisian President Kais Saied and his supporters are celebrating the apparent adoption of his controversial new constitution, following a referendum Monday. But turnout for the… Read more »
July 25, 2022
Tunisia: Tunisians Vote On Constitutional Referendum
Tunisians are voting Monday in a referendum on a new constitution that would give President Kais Saied more power. The vote comes one year after Saied suspended parliament, arguing… Read more »
July 13, 2022
Tunisia: Opposition Abroad Lobbies Against Upcoming Referendum
Tunisian opposition lawmakers are in Paris to lobby against a controversial constitutional referendum taking place later this month, which they argue risks plunging the fragile… Read more »