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At least 34 refugees are missing after their boat sinks off Tunisia, raising the total number of missing people to 67 as the number of vessels heading towards Italy increases sharply. At least 34 refugees are missing after their boat sank off Tunisia, officials have said, the latest in a string of tragedies this month. … Read more
Former Tunis governor Kamal Feki was given the post, days after mass opposition protests took place in the country. Tunisian President Kais Saied has named Kamal Feki as his new interior minister, hours after Taoufik Charfeddine resigned from the post amid a crackdown on prominent opposition figures. Saied issued two decrees on Friday, the first … Read more
Charfeddine, a close aide of President Kais Saied, has appeared less frequently in public in recent months. Tunisian Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine says he has resigned due to family reasons as the government cracks down on prominent opposition figures and a campaign against sub-Saharan Africans provokes international ire. Charfeddine, a close aide to President Kais … Read more
Issued on: 05/03/2023 – 12:55Modified: 05/03/2023 – 13:59 Tunisian director Youssef Chebbi won the coveted Stallion of Yennega award Saturday at the biennial pan-African Fespaco film festival for his murder mystery oeuvre “Ashkal”. Tunis-born Chebbi, whose film centers on the investigation into the killing of a caretaker on a construction site at Carthage on the … Read more