Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisia’s electoral authority on Monday announced it had approved three presidential candidates for the October 6 election, including incumbent President Kais Saied, dismissing three other would-be candidates despite court rulings allowing them to run. The three dismissed candidates had last week won appeals at...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Denmark will close its embassies in Burkina Faso and Mali, and open new missions in Senegal, Tunisia, and Rwanda as part of a new Africa strategy, the Foreign Ministry has said. “As a result of military coups that have severely limited the scope for action in the Sahel region, the embassies in […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia accepted the files of three candidates late Saturday for the Oct. 6 presidential election. Chairman of the Authority, Farouk Bouasker, said at a news conference in Tunis that “the authority received, until the deadline for submitting candidacies on Aug. 5...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa said Saturday it canceled the visas of 95 Libyan nationals who were arrested Friday at a suspected “secret military camp” in White River, a holiday town in the northeastern Mpumalanga province. Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber said he welcomed the arrests of the Libyans whom he said acquir...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian President Kais Saied, in power since 2019, announced on Friday that he will seek a new five-year term in an election set for October. “I officially announce my candidacy for the October 6 presidential election in order to keep up the fight in the battle for national liberation,” Saied, who [&hell...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Tunisian security late Wednesday arrested the secretary-general of Republican People’s Union party over suspicion of “money laundering.” According to the local Mosaique radio, the security forces arrested Lotfi Mraihi based on an arrest warrant over suspicion of money laundering, smuggling of a...
Ras Jedir, Libya — AFP Libya reopened its Ras Jedir border crossing with Tunisia, the key transit point between the countries, three months after it was shut down due to smuggling-related armed clashes. A ceremony organised in this respect at the crossing was attended by both countries’ interior ministers alongside other officials....
Tunis, Tunisia — AFP Several hundred Tunisians marched through the capital chanting “down with the dictatorship” as they protested a spate of arrests under a presidential decree critics say is being used to stifle dissent. Two Tunisian media figures received one-year jail sentences earlier on Wednesday after making comments t...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A Tunisian appeals court upheld a three-year prison sentence Friday against Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda Movement, in the case known as “Lobbying,” according to the Tunisian state news agency. A court sentenced Ghannouchi to three years on Feb. 1 on accusations of receiving foreign funding for ...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian security forces stormed the bar association in Tunis and arrested lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani after she made comments on television about the state of the country, her lawyers said. The arrest late on Saturday was covered live by the France 24 news channel, which said it was forced [&helli...
