The Latest Breaking News from Tunis

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday appointed the governor of Tunis, Kamal Feki, as the new interior minister. This came hours after Taoufik Charafeddine announced his resignation from the post, Reuters reported. This month, Feki refused to grant a protest permit to the opposition Salvation Front coalition, saying that its…

Former Tunis governor Kamal Feki was given the post, days after mass opposition protests took place in the country.

President Saied is scapegoating his country’s small black migrant population to distract from political failings. Does this sound familiar, asks Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Tunisia’s president Kais Saied recently called for urgent measures against illegal immigration of sub-Saharan African nationals. He said they were a source of “violence, crime and unacceptable acts”. His comments were condemned by the international community and the World Bank paused talks over its future engagement with Tunisia. They also…

Sub-Saharan migrants living in Tunisia have been the target of a surge in racist attacks, following a February 21 speech by President Kais Said denouncing what he called "hordes of illegal immigrants". Since then, many migrants have been urgently trying to return to their countries of origin. The Ivory Coast…

WASHINGTON - The World Bank is pausing talks over its future engagement with Tunisia following anti-immigrant comments made by the country's president, Kais Saied, according to an internal message to staff seen by AFP.

The conference on fighting illicit financial transactions in Africa scheduled for mid-March has been delayed.

Editorial: A democracy would get the bailout the country needs. A dictatorship will find getting the money much harder

Tunisian director Youssef Chebbi has won the coveted Stallion of Yennenga award at the biennial pan-African Fespaco film festival in Ouagadougou for his murder mystery oeuvre "Ashkal".