Algeria and Tunisia Expand Military Cooperation Amid Regional Security Tensions

In a move reflecting the deepening security alignment between Algeria and Tunisia, the two neighbors signed a new defense cooperation agreement in Algiers on October 7, 2025, aimed at strengthening joint military capabilities and border security...

U.S. Trade Policy Is Accelerating China–North Africa Economic and Defense Engagement

Algeria and Tunisia signed a renewed defense cooperation agreement in Algiers on October 7, 2025, expanding their 2001 framework to include joint training, border operations, and intelligence exchange. The pact, confirmed by both defense...

Tunisia | Fast Fashion: Spanish Company Happy Punt to Open a Subsidiary in Messadine in Early 2026

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp During a meeting today with Omar Bouzouada, Director General of the Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (APII), executives from the Spanish company Happy Punt announced the opening of a new...

Saudi Leadership Congratulate President of Tunisia on Evacuation Day

Saudi Arabia emphasized the critical need to activate regional and international partnerships to develop innovative solutions for integrating the water and agriculture sectors in the Arab region, essential for enhancing water and food security and...

Tunisia: President Kais Saied orders structural reforms in public finances in meeting with PM

Tunis - President Kais Saied stressed the need for structural reforms in public finances, emphasising the importance of focusing on the social dimension first and foremost. This was during his meeting on Wednesday afternoon at Carthage Palace with...

The Numbers: In 2025, Tunisia Once Again Attracts Europeans and Maghreb Visitors

Despite an unfavorable global economic and geopolitical climate, Tunisia’s tourism sector recorded significant growth in 2025, confirming the resilience of an industry that remains a cornerstone of the national economy. According to data from the...

Justice: Businessman Maher Chaabane Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

The criminal chamber specializing in financial corruption cases at the Tunis Court of Appeal has sentenced businessman Maher Chaabane to two years in prison. This ruling follows an investigation conducted by the Judicial Financial Division, which...

Tunisia: Army fires tear gas at anti-pollution protests in Gabes

The phosphate industry has long been a pillar of Tunisia's post-independence economy, but in Gabes, the human cost has been staggering. [Getty] The Tunisian army has been deployed to the southern coastal city of Gabes after violent protests...

Tunisian delegation visits the Food and Drug Control Center in Benghazi

Benghazi – The Director of the Benghazi Center for Drug and Food Control, Mahmoud Al-Zaydi, announced that a delegation from the Republic of Tunisia conducted a working visit to the center’s headquarters in the city of Benghazi, as part of...

Tunisia: UBCI and EBRD sign Mandate Letter to establish green credit line

UBCI and the EBRD signed an agreement on Monday in Tunis for joining the GEFF program. The GEFF program provides, with the support of the European Union, favorable financing to limited private companies for their investments in the areas of...

Pyrolysis Liquid from Tunisian Woods: Antifungal & Anti-Termite Insights

A groundbreaking study has recently highlighted the remarkable potential of pyrolysis liquid derived from the carbonization of five distinct wood species indigenous to Tunisia. This innovative research, focused on the antifungal and anti-termite...

Tunisia: Trade deficit plunges to -16,728.3 MD at end of September 2025

The trade deficit stood at -16,728.3 million dinars (MD), compared to -13,497.4 MD during the first nine months of 2024, the National Statistics Institute (INS) just announced. The coverage rate reached a level of (73.5%) compared to (77.5%)...

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Tunisia attacks victim remembered with scholarship

Ben Workmanin Worcester ShareSave Joel Richards was killed near Sousse in Tunisia in 2015 A scholarship has been launched in memory of a former University of Worcester student who was killed in a terrorist attack. Joel Richards, 19, who was...

'Deadly poison': Ageing fertiliser factory stifles Tunisian town

Ikram Aioua has seen her 12-year-old son rushed to the hospital three times in the past weeks for gas poisoning. Like thousands who have turned out to protest in her southern Tunisian city of Gabes, Aioua is demanding the closure of a nearby...

New Jersey Stadium Gearing Up To Host Biggest Soccer Spectacle

MetLife stadium in New Jersey. | (Credits: X) MetLife stadium in New Jersey, USA is set to host the FIFA World Cup 2026 final on July 19. The multipurpose stadium in East Rutherford was given modern touches in 2010. Its proximity to New York City...

2026 Finance Bill: Government Authorized to Waive Debts of the Tunisian Sugar Company

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The 2026 Finance Bill contains an important measure regarding the Tunisian Sugar Company (STS). According to Article 43, the Minister of Finance is authorized, on behalf of the State, to waive the unpaid tax...

Clashes break out in southern Tunisia as protest over pollution turns violent

Clashes broke out in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes on Wednesday during a rally by protesters denouncing decades of pollution and environmental neglect. The demonstrators had marched onto a phosphate-processing plant of the Groupe Chimique...

Violence erupts during anti-pollution protest as anger boils in Tunisia’s phosphate belt

GABES, Tunisia (AP) — Police rained tear gas on crowds and several demonstrators and riot police were injured in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes as thousands of people marched Wednesday to protest worsening air pollution from a...

Landmark trade forum calls for borderless prosperity

The International Trade and Cooperation Forum, themed: ‘Trade Partnership Without Borders’, opened as diplomats, entrepreneurs, and policymakers from across Africa gathered to reimage how the continent does business. Ambassador Chief Zainab...