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UNHCR Tunisia Operational Update - 31 March 2021 Format 9 Operational Context Rescue at sea operations and interceptions at land/sea continued at a high rate during the month of March. Two shipwrecks occurred on 10 March along Sfax governorate. In the first shipwreck off Kerkennah island, 39 people drowned while 134 survivors were brought to shore by the Tunisian marine guards. The second shipwreck took place off the coast of Jebeniana city with 70 persons onboard, including four children, who ...

Three suspected militants killed in Tunisia near Algerian border, official says 10 Apr 2021 / 09:01 H. TUNIS, April 1 (Reuters) - Three suspected militants, including an Asian woman and local leader in Islamic State, were killed in Tunisian mountains near the Algerian border in two police operations, a security official said on Thursday. Six years ago an Islamic State militant shot dead 39 foreigners on a beach in Sousse, triggering an exodus of tourists and severely damaging Tunisias econom...

Tunisias president, UGTT union speak out against Ramadan curfew Reuters 2 hrs ago © Reuters/ZOUBEIR SOUISSI FILE PHOTO: Tunisian President Kais Saied takes the oath of office in Tunis TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisias president and a powerful labour union on Friday urged the government to review the 7pm curfew it has brought in to slow COVID-19 infections, which they say will hit shops, cafes and restaurants in the month of Ramadan that starts next week. The intervention of President Kais Saied...

Tunisia’s president, UGTT speak out against Ramadan curfew The question now is not whether the prime minister will modify the confinement measures but when he will announce the new rules and if he can find a credible compromise between socio-economics and public health requirements. Friday 09/04/2021 Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Noureddine Taboubi delivers a speech. (AFP) TUNIS – Tunisia’s president and the country’s powerful labour union on Friday ur...

Friday, 9 April, 2021 - 16:45 Shoppers at the central market in Tunis. (AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat Tunisia’s president and a powerful labor union on Friday urged the government to review the 7 pm curfew it has brought in to slow COVID-19 infections, which they say will hit shops, cafes and restaurants in the month of Ramadan that starts next week. The intervention of President Kais Saied and the UGTT union followed a gathering of hund...

My Week in Tunisia Enjoy the fresh kebab while your freshly dented fender gets fixed It’s a sunny spring morning in Tunis and I am seated at a sidewalk café enjoying a café au lait, waiting for my guide, Yusef, to begin our week of exploration in north and central Tunisia. This is my first visit to the African continent, to the fabled empire of ancient Carthage. Frenetic activity abounds. Cars on blocks being torn apart. Engines, transmissions lay scattered about the sidewalk. Islami...

Clubs dealt blow as Malkia Strikers players wont be released The Star Image: /COURTESY • Kenya Prisons are the last Kenyan club to lift the African club title — in 2013 — after beating GSP of Algeria to win a fifth continental crown in Madagascar. • He added that they want the players to be around when a group of four Brazilian coaches, seconded to Kenya by the FIVB, arrive in the country mid this month. Malkia Strikers players currently in a bubble training camp at...

Last summer, 282 containers of garbage from Italy arrived at the port of Sousse. The scandal led to the prosecution of the ports head of customs and the resignation of the countrys environment minister

Three suspected militants, including an Asian woman‮ ‬and local leader in Islamic State, were killed in Tunisian mountains near the Algerian border‮ ‬in two police operations, a security official said on Thursday.

Every morning at the crack of dawn, fishmongers gather at the historical fish market of Mazara del Vallo, a town in western Sicily with a population of 52,000, shouting out their best offers of the day. Dressed in rubber aprons and boots, they cut fresh swordfish into large chunks and wash baskets of mussels, as the acrid smell of fish fills the air. Coronavirus restrictions in Italy have not changed the daily routine much for these traders. But the psychological effects of the “red prawn war...