Category: Politics
Presidential Election: ISIE announces start of endorsement race
Tunis: Spokesman for the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), Mohamed Tlili Mansri, announced on Monday the start of the race for endorsements of presidential candidates.
This includes parliamentary endorsements, which are collected from …
SNJT President denounces repressive laws against journalists
Tunis: President of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), Zied Dabbar , Monday, called for ending the application of repressive laws and decree-laws against journalists, citing as examples, decree-law 54, the telecommunications code, and …
Minister of Foreign Affairs received ATUGE President
Tunis: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration, and Tunisians Abroad Nabil Ammar had a meeting with President of the “Association des Tunisiens des Grandes Écoles” (ATUGE) Amine Aloulou at the ministry headquarters on Monday.
During the meeting, Minis…
ARP: Plenary sessions Tuesday and Wednesday
Tunis: The Assembly of People’s Representatives (ARP) is holding, on Tuesday, a plenary session to review two draft laws.
The first draft law is about amending and supplementing the provisions of the Code of Military Pleadings and Penalties.
The sec…
Head of State visits Kasbah Mosque after its restoration [Upd 1]
President of the Republic, Kais Saied, went, on Sunday at dawn, to the Kasbah Mosque where he performed the Fajr prayer and visited its various wings, after ordering its repair and restoration a few weeks ago.
The President was accompanied by the Muf…
Civil protection: 6 dead and 359 injured in various accidents
Six people have died and 359 others have been injured in different accidents over the past twenty-four hours, the civil protection spokesperson said on Sunday.
Units under the National Civil Protection Office carried out, during the same day, 442 int…
ISIE publishes preliminary voter lists for 2024 presidential elections
Preliminary voter lists for the 2024 presidential elections can be reviewed at the headquarters of the Local Independent Electoral Commissions or on the official website of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE).
In a statement, the ISIE…
SNJT condemns verdict against Sonia Dahmani and all prison sentences in expression and publishing cases
Tunis: The National Union of Tunisian Journalists said in a statement on Saturday evening that the verdict against commentator and lawyer Sonia Dahmani was “a continuation of the dangerous deviation that has been observed for a year in the judicial tr…
Lawyer Sonia Dahmani sentenced to one year in prison for comments about sub-Saharan Africans
Tunis: The Tunis Court of First Instance on Friday sentenced lawyer Sonia Dahmani to one year in prison for comments she made about sub-Saharan Africans on private television channel Carthage+, her lawyer Sami Ben Ghazi told TAP on Saturday.
The verd…
Hachani meets Kenya’s President, cooperation debated
Tunis: Premier Ahmed Hachani met Tuesday in Seoul with Kenya’s President William Ruto, on the sidelines of his participation in the first Korea-Africa Summit.
The Premier voiced Tunisia’s willingness to scale up cooperation with Kenya in higher educa…