With the deterioration of the Tunisian economy and the decline in job opportunities, where the unemployment rate reached 16.1% as of March 2023, children under the age of 12 are hunting and looking for scorpions in desert areas, especially in the rur...

Pato looks at the picture on his phone. It shows him with his wife and daughter, all carefree smiles. "That's the last time we were happy," he says, completely traumatised.A few months after the photograph was taken, his life was shattered.A friend s...

A bread shortage has again erupted in Tunisia, causing long queues at bakeries nationwide, amid accusations by President Kais Saied against “cartels” for creating this socioeconomic crisis.Social media users and local media published photos showing l...

Tunisian rights groups called on Friday for emergency aid and shelters for migrants expelled from Sfax last week, as dozens of people protested in Tunis in support of their plight.Hundreds of migrants fled or were forced out of Tunisia's second-large...

International rights groups on Thursday slammed Tunisian President Kais Saied for making "racist remarks" against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, urging independent investigations into attacks fuelled by his rhetoric.Saied said last month that migr...

Around 300 nationals of Ivory Coast and Mali were to be flown home from Tunisia onSaturday, fearful of a wave of violence against sub-Saharan migrants since President Kais Saied delivered a controversial tirade against them last month.In his February...

Tunisian President Kais Saied has criticized unauthorized immigration from sub-Saharan Africa, stating that it was intended to alter the demographics of his country and must end.Racist commentsSaied’s remark came during a meeting with the National Se...

The African Union has condemned remarks by Tunisia's president directed at migrants in his country from elsewhere on the continent and warned against "racialised hate speech" that could bring harm.President Kais Saied sparked an outcry this week afte...

A steady flow of taxis has rolled up outside the Ivorian embassy in Tunis in recent days, depositing dozens of migrants who say they no longer feel safe amid an officially sanctioned climate of fear.After a wave of arrests in recent weeks, President...

By AFPPolling began in the second round of elections for Tunisia's toothless parliament on Sunday, but as the divided nation grapples with economic woes, all eyes will be on turnout.A total of 262 candidates are competing for 131 seats in the new leg...

A Tunisian farmer attaches a machine to a cow's udder and sets the pump whirring, but he only expects to fetch less than half the normal amount of milk amid soaring fodder prices.Mohamed Gharsallaoui said he has been forced to sell four cows in recen...

By AFPDozens of Tunisian lawyers protested on Thursday against newly imposed taxes on legal services, part of a 2023 budget that seeks to boost revenues to the cash-strapped treasury.Led by Bar Association head Hatem Mziou, lawyers gathered outside t...