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Dec
24
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia to ban New Year celebrations, extends night curfew

Tunisia to ban New Year celebrations, extends night curfew

COVID-19
TUNISIA will ban all events including celebrations for the new year and extend its night curfew until January 15 to help combat the spread of coronavirus, the health minister said on Tuesday. The government imposed the night curfew in October and banned travel between regions in the North African country. On Monday, Tunisia said it had recorded a total of 121,718 coronavirus infections, including 4,199 deaths. Tunisian authorities said they had ordered vaccines from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer. - Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Dec
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia bans air travel with UK, Australia and South Africa over new virus

Tunisia bans air travel with UK, Australia and South Africa over new virus

COVID-19
Tunisia has suspended all air travel with Britain, Australia and South Africa, citing fears of a new coronavirus strain. Tunisia has reported a total of 120,687 coronavirus infections and 4,158 deaths. The health ministry said it was holding an emergency meeting to follow up on the developments of the epidemiological situation around the world. - Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Dec
18
2020
By The African Mirror
‘We had to get our land back’: Tunisian date farm proves revolutionary bright spot

‘We had to get our land back’: Tunisian date farm proves revolutionary bright spot

HUMAN RIGHTS
LAYLI FOROUDI AS revolution swept Tunisia 10 years ago, the people of Jemna saw their chance to settle a colonial-era score - seizing a 185-hectare (460-acre) date plantation just outside the oasis town. "We had to get our land back, we should be the ones using it," said Mohsen Ezzine, 40, who was among those who occupied the farm - claiming it as ancestral land - two days before then-President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali fled abroad in January 2011. A wave of land occupations took place during the revolt against Ben Ali's authoritarian rule, but a decade later much of…
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Dec
16
2020
By The African Mirror
Ten years on, anger grows in Tunisian town where ‘Arab Spring’ began

Ten years on, anger grows in Tunisian town where ‘Arab Spring’ began

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
ANGUS MCDOWALL AND TAREK AMARA TEN years ago, a fruit seller set himself ablaze in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid after an altercation with a policewoman about where he had put his cart. Word of Mohammed Bouazizi's fatal act of defiance quickly spread, sparking nationwide protests that eventually toppled Tunisia's long-serving leader and helped inspire similar uprisings across the region - the so-called "Arab Spring". Huge demonstrations broke out in Egypt and Bahrain, governments fell and civil war engulfed Libya, Syria and Yemen. Tunisians are now free to choose their leaders and can publicly criticise the state. Yet…
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Nov
11
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia prime minister says coronavirus deaths may reach 7,000

Tunisia prime minister says coronavirus deaths may reach 7,000

COVID-19
Hichem Mechichi TUNISIAN Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi says the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the country may reach 6,000-7,000, describing the health situation as "very dangerous". Coronavirus cases have been rising quickly in Tunisia, which had managed to contain the virus earlier this year, and have now reached 70,000 cases and 1,900 deaths in a country of 11.5 million. Medical sources told Reuters intensive care units in most state hospitals had reached maximum capacity. The government imposed a night curfew this month and banned travel between cities to slow a second wave of the pandemic. - Thomson Reuters…
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Oct
31
2020
By The African Mirror
Angry French city asks after church attack: Why us again?

Angry French city asks after church attack: Why us again?

WORLD
CAROLINE PAILLIEZ WHEN a suspected Islamist from Tunisia killed three people this week in a church in the French Riviera city of Nice, for many residents it brought painful memories flooding back. Four years ago, another suspected Islamist originally from Tunisia had driven a 19-tonne truck into a crowd about not far from the church, killing more than 80 people. The church attack, coming on top of the truck assault, left many people in Nice on Friday feeling they had angry, and wanting to fight back against the people they believe are to blame. "We've had enough," Nice resident Francois…
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Oct
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia bans internal travel to contain pandemic

Tunisia bans internal travel to contain pandemic

COVID-19
TUNISIA has banned travel between the country's regions, suspended schools and public gatherings and extended a curfew, as it tried to contain a rapid surge of COVID-19 cases with hospitals nearly full. Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has said Tunisia cannot afford a second lockdown with the government already fighting the central bank over a projected deficit double what it had originally foreseen. However, after successfully containing the coronavirus in the spring and summer, Tunisia is now experiencing a very rapid spread of the disease with more than 55,000 cases and intensive care units full in some…
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Oct
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisian man beheads woman, kills two more people in Nice church

Tunisian man beheads woman, kills two more people in Nice church

NEWS
THE Tunisian suspect in yesterday’s attack in which three people were killed in Nice in southern France was not listed by Tunisian police as a suspected militant before he left the country in September, a judiciary official said. Brahim Aouissaoui, 21, left Tunisia by boat on September 14 said the official, Mohsen Dali, and arrived in Nice on Wednesday. Tunisia has opened an investigation into Aouissaoui, who was detained by French police after the attack, Dali said. Aouissaoui is originally from the village of Sidi Omar Bouhajla near Kairouan, but had lately been living in Sfax and police are questioning…
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Oct
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia says COVID spread ‘very dangerous’ with new curbs expected

Tunisia says COVID spread ‘very dangerous’ with new curbs expected

COVID-19
TUNISIA says that the coronavirus pandemic had become "very dangerous" with 2,125 new infections and 52 deaths recorded in the past 48 hours, and new restrictions were expected to be announced within hours. The total death toll now exceeds 1,150 with 55,000 cases and medical sources told Reuters intensive care units in most state hospitals had reached maximum capacity. Health Ministry spokeswoman Nassaf ben Alaya said that the situation had become "very dangerous". Ministry official Faisal ben Saleh told reporters that the number of deaths was expected to double next month. New curbs were expected, but no full lockdown, he…
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Oct
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisian protesters clash with police after man dies in bulldozed kiosk

Tunisian protesters clash with police after man dies in bulldozed kiosk

NEWS
HUNDREDS of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police in a provincial Tunisian town after authorities bulldozed an unlicensed cigarette kiosk, killing its owner sleeping inside, witnesses said. Street protests are frequent in Tunisia, where a popular uprising toppled autocratic rule nearly a decade ago and ushered in democracy but little economic progress, with living standards for many still low, unemployment high and corruption rife. In the town of Sheitla, the site of an ancient Roman city in Tunisia's hilly, impoverished interior, residents blocked roads with burning tyres and threw stones at police, who chased, witnesses said. Soldiers were then deployed to…
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