Tunisian President Kais Saied will launch in coming weeks a national dialogue that will include political parties and youth from all regions “to correct the revolution that has deviated from its goals a decade after its outbreak”, the presidency said …
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The Tunisian presidency has announced a six-month extension of the country’s state of emergency, in place since a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus claimed by the ISIL (ISIS) group. President Kais Saied “decided on the six-month…
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Tunisia has said it is not interested in establishing diplomatic relations with Israel and its position will not be affected by any international changes. Morocco this week joined the list of Arab countries that have normalised relations with Israel…
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Ten years ago a young street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself afire in the central Tunisian provincial town of Sidi Bouzid to protest against police harassment. Bouazizi’s sacrificial act served as a catalyst and inspired the Tunisian people …
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Ten years ago, anti-government protests began in Tunisia, leading up to the toppling of the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime in January 2011, the country’s transition to democracy, and the start of the Arab Spring that saw the ousting of autocratic…
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The scandal was denounced as early as November 2020 by a private Tunisian television channel. According to the investigation of investigative journalists, the Tunisian company Soreplast imports 120,000 tons of waste each year…
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TUNIS – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is looking for diplomatic relief to cope with the landmark US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara and Rabat’s normalisation of relations with Israel. The two diplomatic developments, sponsored by the US administration of President Donald Trump, could mean further isolation of Algeria, which insists on pressing ahead with its support to the separatist Polisario Front despite its internal crises. On Thursday, the Algerian president announced, during a call with his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied, his intention to visit Tunisia after his full recovery.
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TUNIS – Tunisia is struggling to protect North Africa’s Jewish heritage, threatened by vandalism, looting and the smuggling of valuable artefacts bearing witness to the long history of the region’s Jews. While many of Tunisia’s own synagogues and Jewish graveyards lie neglected, the country has also become a conduit for antiques pillaged in lawless neighbouring Libya. “A huge number of antiques have been looted in Libya, and people are trying to smuggle them to Europe,” said Habib Kazdaghli, a historian at Tunisia’s Manouba University.
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the Tunisian uprising which toppled the authoritarian regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and marked the start of the so-called “Arab Spring”. During the past decade, this date has been a favourite occasion for many Western journalists and academics to weigh in on the state of Tunisian revolutionary activity. After a brief celebration of the Tunisian uprising as historical and exceptional in the immediate aftermath of Ben Ali’s downfall, a tendency emerged to frame the Tunisian democracy-building process as chaotic, disillusioning, and hopeless.
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Tunisia is struggling to protect North Africa’s Jewish heritage, threatened by vandalism, looting and the smuggling of valuable artifacts bearing witness to the long history of the region’s Jews. While many of Tunisia’s own synagogues and Jewish…
Read more from the source : The Times of Israel
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