Tunisia is headed for a runoff election between two candidates whose showing at the polls on Sunday reflects the country’s economic uncertainties and a rejection of the existing political leadership. The ISIE, Tunisia’s independent electoral commission, posted results early Wednesday confirming that law professor Kais Saied received 18.4 percent of…
Tunisians on Saturday bid farewell to President Beji Caid Essebsi, the 92-year-old leader who died Thursday at a military hospital in Tunis following years of service to the North African nation. Essebsi’s state funeral included throngs of people in the streets who came to honor him, lining the route between…
Tunisia will honor three days of mourning following the death of its president, Beji Caid Essebsi. The 92-year-old statesman died at a military hospital in Tunis on Thursday morning, following speculation about his health in recent weeks. Alongside Tunisia in its mourning are Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories,…
West African heads of state begin their meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Saturday, with a range of issues on the agenda for the summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). What won’t be on the agenda as planned is a discussion of Morocco’s accession to the body,…
Turkey announced Friday that it is taking legal action against Wagdy Ghoneim, the radical Egyptian Islamist living in exile in Istanbul, because of his comments about Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi following the latter’s public call to further gender equality in Tunisia. Essebsi has urged Tunisian judicial authorities to establish…
The president of Tunisia, speaking during a Sunday New Year’s address, said that his government suspects Israel is behind the December 15 assassination of a Hamas aviation engineer in Sfax. The statement by President Beji Caid Essebsi was the most public acknowledgement, at the highest level of Tunisian government, that…