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Members of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) in Tunis have called for sacking two ministers after they breached the Tunisian Constitution by allowing Israeli tourists to enter into the...
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Head of Hamas political bureau Khalid Meshaal and the Palestinian ambassador in Tunisia expressed their thanks to the head of the Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahdah Rashid al-Ghannouchi for his...
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Tunisia's Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa said yesterday that his government will respect the Tunisian Parliament's decision to deny Israeli Jews entry to Tunisia "even if the decision will harm...
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A spokesperson for Tunisia's Foreign Affairs Ministry has accused the families of two Libyan citizens currently jailed in Tunisia of being involved in the kidnapping of two diplomats from...
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April 19, 2014
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Muhammad Ali Harrath, the well-respected CEO of London-based Islam Channel has been arrested on arrival in South Africa on a business trip. Despite being very close to the political...
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Tunisia's interim President Moncef Marzouki yesterday sacked the Director of Military Justice a few days after the Military Court of Appeal sentenced several former regime officials on charges of...
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The Tunisian Court of Appeal upheld a military court verdict and sentenced in absentia the country's former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to life in prison on charges...
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Islamic and liberal parties in the Tunisian Constituent Assembly began on Monday to discuss the new election law, launching the process to set the election's date and thus making...
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A court in Tunisia sentenced on Thursday five senior security officials at the Interior Ministry to 15 years in prison over their alleged involvement in a major corruption case....
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Tunisia and Libya agreed on Monday to reopen the Ras Jedir border crossing, which has been closed for more than a month, Tunisia's TAP news agency reported. The crossing...
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The Tunisian Congress for the Republic (CPR) party called for banning leading members of the former regime from taking part in the upcoming elections. The Secretary General of the...
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The President of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, implicitly condemned the 529 death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court on Monday, saying that he opposes the capital punishment and advocates...
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Secretary General of the Ennahda Movement Hamadi Jebali has resigned, but the movement has not made a decision yet to accept or refuse his resignation, an official in the...
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Former Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid El-Sebsi said in an interview with Reuters that his party is ready to ally with the Islamist Ennahda movement. El-Sebsi, the president of...
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Border officials in Tunisia have refused entry to twenty Israeli passengers of a Norwegian cruise ship, the Jade, which docked in La Goulette on Sunday. A spokesman for the...
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Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa has sacked 18 governors from 24 assigned by his predecessor Ali Al Arrayed, a prominent leader in Ennahdha movement, Interior Minister Lotfi bin-Jiddo said...
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The Leader of the Democratic Movement for Construction and Reform (MDER) in Tunisia, Amna Mansour, announced her candidacy for the next presidential elections, making her the first woman in...
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Tunisia's interim President Moncef Marzouki rejected calls demanding he resign his post if he plans to run in elections saying he believes it's premature to discuss his future plans;...
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Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets in Jandouba, to the west of Tunis, on Monday to protest against terrorism after an armed gang attacked and killed four people...
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March 29, 2014
Yassir Al Zataara
While the most problematic issue facing post-revolution authorities in Egypt and Tunisia has been the economy, besides the deep state and foreign conspiracy, the situation is very different in...
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March 29, 2014
Fahmi Huwaidi
The Tunisians have succeeded where the Egyptians failed; they've agreed on a new post-revolution constitution and given a vote of confidence to a government of independents. Egypt's third anniversary...
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March 29, 2014
Yassir Al Zataara
Some people have compared the events in Tunisia with what is happening in Egypt; Ennahda, they say, was open-minded about working with other political groups, while the Muslim Brotherhood...
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March 24, 2014
Tarek El Kahlaoui
As we stand on the verge of the National Constituent Assembly's vote on the constitution, which is expected to get the required two-thirds majority to pass its first reading,...
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French President Francois Hollande said on Friday that the new constitution in Tunisia "proves" the harmony between Islam and democracy. Speaking at a ceremony for the adoption of the...
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Tunisia's Ennahda Party Leader Rashid Ghannouchi met with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday. Following their meeting Ghannouchi told the Anadolu news agency the two leaders discussed...
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Amal Karbul, the minister of tourism in the new Tunisian government, headed by Mehdi Gomaa, has resigned from the government before officially starting her new role after being accused...
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Tunisia's En-Nahda movement leader Rashid Ghannouchi has affirmed that "the most important lesson to take from the Egyptian experience is to avoid following its lead because it's doomed to...
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The Defence and Interior Ministries in Tunisia have said that they will prosecute those media outlets which publish information about ongoing anti-terrorism operations in different areas of the country....
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Thousands of Libyans are fleeing from violence in the country and crossing into neighbouring Tunisia. Reports on Tunisia's Tataouine radio station claim that the increase in armed clashes between...
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The Tunisian Constituent Assembly (parliament) continued on Tuesday to vote on the final chapters of the new draft constitution. Some disagreement over the formulation of some chapters still exists,...
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Credible sources in Tunisia claim that the leader of the country's Ennahda Party is on his way to Washington for what is being described as "an official visit". Sheikh...
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The leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party, Ennahda, has said that he wants to discuss issues "in the interests of Tunisia, Algeria and the region in general". Sheikh Rashid...