TUNIS — Tunisia raised the minimum wage for industrial and farm workers as well as pensions for hundreds of thousands of private-sector retirees by 6.5 percent on Wednesday in a move to defuse discontent over economic hardships.
Thousands protested (...)
Tunisian security forces killed a senior commander in a militant group who detonated his suicide belt as he was shot during a raid against militants planning attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, officials said on Sunday.
Tunisia's armed forces (...)
Tunisia has arrested a cell of 17 militants and prevented a major assault on hotels and security forces in the resort town of Sousse planned for this month, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
Sousse was the site of one of two major (...)
TUNIS — Three police officers were killed in clashes with militants at a checkpoint near Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia, TAP state news agency reported on Monday. Two police officers died in an attack on the checkpoint and another in a later clash. (...)
The high-profile assassination of another opposition leader in six months has put Tunisia's Ennahda government in an extremely unfavorable light. On Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou's own admission, “the same 9-millimeter automatic weapon that (...)
TUNIS – Tunisian police fired teargas late on Saturday to disperse violent protests in the southern town of Sidi Bouzid, cradle of the country's revolution and hometown of slain secular opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, witnesses said. Tensions have (...)
The largest trade union Tunisia staged a general strike Friday to protest the shooting death of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi, news agencies quoted officials as saying.
The UGTT union said the shutdown was a denouncement of general "terrorism, (...)
Tunis - One person was killed and 20 were hurt on Tuesday in clashes in the Tunisian town of Bizerte between police and street vendors angry at being moved from the downtown, residents and local media said.
Hundreds of vendors hurled rocks and (...)
TUNIS — A security official says a young Tunisian man has set himself on fire in a town near the Libyan border after being accused of theft.
Samir Ben Tahar, 25, had denied any wrongdoing, maintaining he was in Libya at the time of the theft, said (...)
A young Tunisian, who set himself on fire, is seen at the main Tunis street, Tuesday. The man set himself on fire in a gesture recalling the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose death ignited a revolt in Tunisia that echoed across the Arab (...)
Tunisia's premier prepared to form a national unity Cabinet and the president canceled a visit to Egypt Thursday after a top opposition figure was assassinated, UPI reported.
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali called the killing of Chokri Belaid, one of (...)
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
It was springtime, all right! The protesters had young and fresh faces and were calling for freedom, democracy and justice. They demanded the toppling of certified dictators with long, dark histories.
Then, the protesters (...)
In some European democracies and other rising ones among the so-called states of the Soviet Space, we are repeatedly seeing deputies hitting their colleagues whenever the talk is meaningless or features slander. In some Arab spring states, (...)
Have the revolution's dreams collapsed? Or were they lost in the rubble of freedoms and the wreckage of hopes?
An Egyptian oppositionist was disgruntled as he listened to the slogans demanding the toppling of the “rule of the Guide" (in reference to (...)
When I served as Political-Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia in the late 1990s, noisy and crowded diplomatic events -- dinners, receptions, national day parties -- were the best place to meet with Tunisians who assumed that President (...)
Reuters
Tunisian Islamists who won a historic election victory this week are expected to promote business-friendly economic policies but Europe's economic woes could favor Gulf investors in the short term, analysts say.
Ennahda has tried hard to (...)
The Arab region, as we all know, has been witnessing major political and historical events since the beginning of this Hijri year 1432 H (2011). These events have immensely affected the politics of this important region of the world and will (...)
The people's uprising in Tunisia was an earthquake that led to the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime on 14/1/2011. However, every earthquake is normally followed by aftershocks, and Tunisia continues to suffer such events four months after (...)
A state of emergency and a curfew were imposed in Bahrain… The entire Arab world is in the eye of the storm, while this “emergency” is prevailing after the dreams violated the red lines. All the peaceful rights are respected, but so should be the (...)
The Egyptian authorities have missed the train of reforms, and it is the case of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's government before them. Now, President Hosni Mubarak can only resort to boundless power and oppression to maintain his authority, knowing that (...)
A soft-loan agreement of SR 75 million was signed here today between the Saudi Development Fund (SDF) and the Republic of Tunisia to help finance a project for integrated farming development in the Tunisian State of Sidi Bouzid.
The agreement was (...)
A delegation of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) arrived here today on a several-day visit to Tunisia. The delegation was led by SFD Deputy Chairman and Managing Director Yousuf bin Ibrahim Al-Bassam.
Al-Bassam and Tunisian Minister of (...)
