World Bank announces $1.2B package for Tunisia
The World Bank announced Friday a $1.2 billion package to support Tunisia’s economic reforms and stumbling economy.
The World Bank announced Friday a $1.2 billion package to support Tunisia’s economic reforms and stumbling economy.
Tunisia’s constitutional assembly prepares to select a new committee to oversee elections after its work weekend was disrupted by death threats against one of its members.
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said on Tuesday that he has submitted his resignation to President Moncef Marzouki, after failing to form a new government aimed at ending a political crisis.
A young Tunisian died after winning a bet to eat 28 raw eggs in one sitting, Shems FM radio reported on Wednesday.
Tunisia’s interior ministry threatened on Saturday to punish all those involved in Friday’s US embassy attack, as police hunted the leader of a hardline jihadist group.
The United States is working with Middle East and North African nations, particularly Tunisia and Sudan, to beef up security at its missions hit by violent protests, US officials said Friday.
Fifty-four migrants trying to reach Italy died of thirst when their inflatable boat ruptured in the Mediterranean, according to testimony from the sole survivor, the UN refugee agency said.
TRIPOLI—Tripoli began to look like a solidly rebel-held city on Friday, the calmest day in the capital since Moammar Gadhafi’s opponents swept in nearly a week ago. Some even celebrated in the streets, marching and chanting, “Hold your head high! You are a free Libyan.” There were still occasional gunbattles, but nothing like the bloody [...]
Libyan rebels on Friday took control of the Ras Jdir post on the border with Tunisia, and raised the flag of the rebellion, a Tunisian goverment source told AFP.
Ousted Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was to be tried in absentia Monday on drugs and weapon charges described as “irrational” by his lawyer who wants more time to defend his client.
TUNIS—Some 300 people died in the Tunisian uprising, a UN official said Saturday, as a Tunisian rights activist said security forces raped and tortured prisoners even after the fall of the old regime. “About 300 people were killed and 700 injured during the troubles between December 17 and January 14,” Juan Mendez, the United Nations [...]
