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Jun
20
2023
By The African Mirror
Man fatally stabs police officer outside Brazilian embassy in Tunis

Man fatally stabs police officer outside Brazilian embassy in Tunis

NEWS
A man fatally stabbed a policeman on duty outside the Brazilian embassy in Tunis before police shot the attacker in the leg and arrested him, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry official said the attacker, 53, was mentally ill and the stabbing was not being treated as terrorism. The policeman later died from his wounds, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said. Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Mar
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisian opposition defies protest ban with rally

Tunisian opposition defies protest ban with rally

NEWS
HUNDREDS of opposition supporters in Tunisia defied an official ban on their protest against the president after some of their leaders were arrested, breaking through a police barrier in central Tunis to rally in the city's main street. Before the protesters broke through the barrier, police warned them by loudspeaker that their demonstration was illegal but added that they would not stop them by force. Up to a thousand protesters then pushed through the cordon to reach Habib Bourguiba Avenue where most rallies take place, chanting "Shut down the coup" and "We want the release of the arrested". The National…
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Jan
03
2023
By The African Mirror
Strike over pay paralyses transport in Tunisian capital

Strike over pay paralyses transport in Tunisian capital

NEWS
TAREK AMARA METRO and bus traffic in Tunisia's capital ground to a halt after employees of state transport company Transtu held a strike over delays in the payment of wages and bonuses. The strike in Tunis highlights the financial problems faced by public companies on the verge of bankruptcy while President Kais Saied's government contends with its worst financial crisis. "The financial situation in the company is really difficult," said Transtu spokesperson Hayat Chamtouri. The industrial action is a show of strength for the powerful UGTT union, which has pledged to hold a series of protests. The union, with 1…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead

In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead

NEWS
JIHED ABIDELLAOUI AMMAR AWAD AS day breaks over Tunis, Jamila Ghuili takes her two small children out into the streets to scavenge in waste bins for plastic bottles that she sells to buy food for her family. Abandoned by her husband, the single mother lives in a poor part of Omrane Superieur, a neighborhood of the capital where Tunisia's economic malaise is acutely felt. "Everything has become expensive," said Ghuili, as her children played next to her. Exacerbated by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic grievances have fuelled discontent in Tunisia, leading to protests that encouraged President Kais Saied…
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Feb
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Thousands protest in Tunis despite police blockade

Thousands protest in Tunis despite police blockade

NEWS
TAREK AMARA THOUSANDS of protesters backed by Tunisia's powerful labour union gathered in central Tunis yesterday in the country's biggest demonstration for years, defying a police lockdown that blocked roads in a large area of the capital. The rally was held to mark the anniversary of the 2013 killing of a prominent activist and to protest against police abuses that demonstrators say have imperilled freedoms won in the 2011 revolution that triggered the "Arab Spring". Riot police deployed cordons around the city centre, stopping both cars and many people from entering the streets around Avenue Habib Bourguiba as thousands of…
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Jan
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Hundreds march in Tunisia as protests sharpen

Hundreds march in Tunisia as protests sharpen

NEWS
HUNDREDS of people marched in central Tunis yesterday against inequality and police brutality, in defiance of a ban on demonstrations and as security forces tried to block off the city's main central avenue. Protesters chanted "the people want the fall of the regime" - a chant popularised during the so-call Arab Spring a decade ago - and held up banners and slogans decrying the security response to more than a week of demonstrations and nightly clashes between youths and police in cities across Tunisia. The protests, 10 years after a popular revolt against autocratic rule introduced democracy in Tunisia, represent…
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Jan
23
2021
By The African Mirror
UN sets dates for Libyan transitional govt selection

UN sets dates for Libyan transitional govt selection

NEWS
THE United Nations Libya mission has called for nominations for leadership of a new unified transitional government must be made within a week and voting on candidates would take place in early February. Libya has been divided since 2014 between rival administrations in the capital Tripoli, in the west, and in the country's east. Manoeuvring over the new government has raised fears that powerful figures who stand to lose influence could attempt to sabotage the process. The UN in November gathered 75 Libyan participants in a political dialogue in Tunis aimed at setting a roadmap to national elections that they…
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