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Oct
20
2022
By The African Mirror
Protests paralyse Tunisian town after migrant deaths

Protests paralyse Tunisian town after migrant deaths

NEWS
A southern Tunisian coastal town was paralysed by protests amid growing anger over the fate of people who drowned in a migrant shipwreck last month, with some buried in unmarked graves. The powerful UGTT labour union called a general strike in Zarzis on Tuesday, bringing to head days of smaller protests to demand authorities do more to find missing bodies and improve living conditions. Images showed the streets of Zarzis packed with protesters chanting anti-authority slogans with shops and government institutions closed. "Today the state continues to ignore us and does not even search for those drowned," said Salim Zreidat,…
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Aug
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Apprehension grows in Tunisia

Apprehension grows in Tunisia

NEWS
ANGUS McDOWALL and TAREK AMARA PRESIDENT Kais Saied's delay in announcing a way forward 10 days after he seized executive power is jangling nerves among Tunisians, with friend and foe alike increasingly impatient to see steps towards ending political and economic paralysis. Saied on July 25 dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, froze parliament and said he would govern alongside a new premier. The move prompted critics to accuse him of a coup and raising fears for the future of Tunisia's democratic system. At stake are the rights and freedoms that Tunisians won during a 2011 revolution that ousted the previous…
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Feb
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisian union calls for four ministers to quit as way to end crisis

Tunisian union calls for four ministers to quit as way to end crisis

NEWS
TUNISIA’S powerful UGTT labour union has called for four proposed new cabinet ministers to stand aside as a step towards resolving a political crisis. Parliament last week approved a cabinet reshuffle put forward by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi with 11 new ministers. But President Kais Saied rejected the reshuffle, saying four of the appointments were believed to have conflicts of interest. The dispute is causing a political logjam as the government struggles to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. Protests have been going on for nearly three weeks over the political and social crisis. "A concession must take…
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Jan
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Tunisia’s powerful union urges political, economic reform to head off crisis

Tunisia’s powerful union urges political, economic reform to head off crisis

NEWS
TAREK AMARA and ANGUS McDOWALL THE leader of Tunisia's UGTT labour union, widely seen as the country's most powerful political player with more than a million members, told Reuters urgent reform was needed to head off a social and economic crisis. "We need a national discussion on the political system ... the dialogue should include reforms to revive the economy," said Noureddine Taboubi, secretary-general of the union, a national movement that helped end colonial rule in 1956 and won a Nobel Peace Prize for its role calming tensions after the 2011 "Arab Spring" revolution. As the revolution's 10th anniversary arrived…
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