Tag: Ben Ali

Tunisian judicial authorities on Tuesday slapped a one-month ban on radical Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, notably for incitement to hatred, ...

Tunisian authorities on Friday froze the assets of eight businessmen suspected of corruption, including some already under house arrest. Graft ...

Tunisia declared a "war on corruption" on Wednesday after the arrest of three businessmen and a customs officer on suspicion ...

Tunisian officials warned Tuesday that tensions in the country's south could escalate following a protester's death after clashes with security ...

More than 2,000 Tunisians protested Saturday in the capital against a bill that would allow officials being prosecuted for alleged ...

A Tunis court has sentenced Ridha Grira, the last defence minister under ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to ...

Tunisia's election chief Chafik Sarsar has resigned just months before the country is due to hold its first post-revolution municipal ...

Tunisian and international non-governmental organisations warned Tuesday of deteriorating freedom of the press in a country considered to be a ...

Tunisia said Saturday it had replaced two senior officials in a southeastern region, days after protesters there booed the prime ...

The Tunisian branch of the radical Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, which calls for Islamic law and wants to unify Muslims ...

Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an ...

Former Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has been sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for corruption ...

Tunisia's parliament on Wednesday approved a law to fight widespread corruption that has plagued the North African country's economy since ...

A rise in "brutal tactics" by Tunisian security forces in line with nationwide emergency laws to counter terrorism are threatening ...

The Arab Spring started in Tunisia after a December 17, 2010 self-burning of a street vendor in a provincial town ...

Gammarth (Tunisia) (AFP) - Tunisia's UGTT labour union, which played a role in the 2011 uprising that toppled the country's ...

“Several indigenous practices that were deemed barbaric and inhumane like human sacrifice, slavery and other practices were outlawed because they ...

President John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) government should apologise to Ghanaians for the numerous promises they ...

The flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has highlighted the importance of creating jobs, which will ...

Thousands of Tunisian lawyers went on strike on Friday to protest at new taxes and tighter fiscal controls on their ...