The Latest Breaking News from Tunisia

The non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a new report on Tunisia, denouncing the government's use of arbitrary detention as “a cornerstone of its repressive policy” and claiming it is designed to strip individuals of their civil and political rights.

Asylum requests of migrants coming from EU candidate countries and seven other countries will be assessed in fast-track procedures.

Human rights groups say drop is partly due to EU policies that turn blind eye to rights abuses in countries such as Libya and Tunisia

The trial of dozens of Tunisian opposition figures resumed on Tuesday under tight security, with six detained defendants on hunger strike after they were barred from attending court in person.

Trial of more than 40 people charged with plotting against the state, including prominent politicians, resumes Friday.

Authorities suggested more than 20,000 people were sheltering in the camps, which are near a part of the coastline located less than 161 kilometres from the Italian islands that form the European Union's outermost borders.

Tunisia is pushing migrants farther away from North Africa's Mediterranean coastline as part of a broader effort to prevent them from trying to cross to Europe by sea

Snails are a protein-packed, and cheap, alternative to red meat

Women rappers were not really a feature of Tunisia’s typically masculine and chauvinist hip-hop scene until the revolution that overthrew Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.

Ben Mbarek, along with about 40 other critics of the president, is being tried on state conspiracy charges.

In a northern Tunisian olive grove, Yassine Khelifi's small workshop hums as a large machine turns olive waste into a valuable energy source in a country heavily reliant on imported fuel.