For a country with a large share of unemployed workers, Tunisia has found it unusually difficult to fill a top post that of a prime minister capable of forming a government that can pass muster with its fractured parliament. This past week, it may have found the man. At 48, former finance minister and presidential candidate Elyes Fakhfakh is a youngish, if not a new face…
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Three months after parliamentary and presidential elections, Tunisia still has no government. The prime minister designate, Habib Jemli failed to win the confidence of parliament when he presented his list of ministers on 10th January. He would…
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Fatoumata Camara and her two young sons have spent nearly two years in a red-brick building in the desert town of Medenine in southeast Tunisia – 3,600 kilometres as the crow flies from her hometown in Guinea, and more than 500 …
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Tunisia still faces numerous hurdles to protecting its human rights gains nine years after Tunisians ousted the authoritarian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. The authorities failed to scrap laws that are still being applied to punish Tunisians for peaceful criticism or for pursuing their private lives as…
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It has been three months since free and fair presidential and legislative elections were held in Tunisia, the Arab world’s only democratic, secular state, and still no new government has been installed. Last Friday, lawmakers rejected the proposed cabinet of the designated prime minister Habib Jemli. President Kais Saied has now to ask another political figure to …
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