The Latest Breaking News from Tunis

The EU is considering a major financial package for the cash-strapped nation amid a growing refugee and migrant crisis.

Tunisia is hosting the leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Union on Sunday for talks aimed at smoothing the way for an international bailout and restoring stability to a country that has become a major source of migration to Europe.

Tunisia is hosting the leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Union for talks aimed at smoothing the way for an international bailout

Sahbi Atig has been hospitalised in intensive care after 25-day hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment.

Sick Tunisians face a frantic struggle to find some medicines because the cash-strapped state has reduced imports, leaving doctors unable to control debilitating health problems and patients turning to informal markets for their medication.

‘This … system, goes back to the beys who needed to keep their courtiers happy to maintain their rule’, analyst says.

A Tunisian judge has opened a new investigation into political figures including major opponents of President Kais Saied on suspicion of conspiring against state security, a lawyer for one of them said.

As rains failed, Tunisian farmers watched their crops wither this spring, harvesting early to salvage some as animal feed and piling costs on a state struggling to afford wheat imports with bakeries running out of bread.

Daughters of Rached Ghannouchi and Said Ferjani demand justice amid continuing crackdown on dissent by President Saied

Families of detained opposition members in Tunisia have filed a case at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Thirty-seven groups, both Tunisian and international, voiced concern over the crackdown on the judiciary’s independence.