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Marta Bellingreri

Marta Bellingreri

Oct 17, 2019

Tunisian activist Marwa Heni, seen in an undated picture. — Citess

Saloua Samoui, the wife of detained Tunisian media mogul and presidential candidate Nabil Karoui, stands with supporters as she distributes election leaflets for Karoui's Heart of Tunisia party ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tunis, Tunisia October 3, 2019. Picture taken October 3, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC1A9FEF8FC0

Tunisians back new faces in parliamentary polls

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A photo taken on August 21, 2016 shows the Sidi Salem dam near Testour, in Tunisia's north-west Beja region, which has particularly low water levels due to a 30 percent drop in rainfall in the North African country this year.
Water-cuts, dry dams and withering vegetation: Tunisia has faced a difficult summer due to a lack of rainfall which has reinforced social tensions in several disadvantaged regions. / AFP / FETHI BELAID / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MOUNIR SOUISSI (Photo credit should read FETHI BELA

Is Tunisia heading toward a 'thirst uprising'?

Perrine Massy

A handout picture released by the Tunisian Presidency shows Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali (2nd L) looking at Mohamed Al Bouazzizi (R), during his visit at the hopital in Ben Arous near Tunis on December 28, 2010. Mohamed Al Bouazzizi, a 26-year-old university graduate, who was forced to sell fruit and vegetables on the streets, doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on December 17, which left him in a serious condition with severe burns. Days of rioting in Tunisia by mostly jobless

Five years on, have things changed in Tunisia?

Christine Petré

Christine Petré

A picture taken on March 22, 2016 shows vehicles waiting near the Tunisian customs post at the Ras Jedir border crossing with Libya, south of the town of Ben Guerdane, after it was reopened after a two-week closure in response to a deadly jihadist attack on a town near the frontier.
Both the Ras Jedir crossing on the Mediterranean coast and the Dehiba crossing in the mountainous desert interior reopened at 0600 GMT, ministry spokesman Yasser Mesbah said.Tunisia closed the two crossings on March 7 when doze

What fate awaits Tunisia's returning jihadis?

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture