Inspire Middle East How are Tunisia’s plastics businesses faring during the COVID-19 crisis? Back in April, the International Monetary Fund approved a $745 million emergency loan to help Tunisia navigate the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IMF also forecast the economy would contract by 4.3% this year. 18/09/2020
Inspire Middle East Tunisia's startups target saving water & bees to counter global warming's effects Global warming is having a sizeable impact on agriculture in some North African countries. 11/09/2020
Inspire Middle East How is Tunisia developing MedTech to fight COVID19 with limited resources? Some hospitals in Tunisia are developing a variety of new technologies to combat the novel coronavirus, despite facing a number of setbacks in funding and resources. 17/07/2020
Inspire Middle East Why is hip-hop bringing change in Tunisia’s Kasserine Mountains? Bordering Algeria, poverty and unemployment in Tunisia’s Kasserine Mountains has gone some way towards nurturing young recruits for extremism. Hip hop dancing, however, has emerged as a new way to potentially combat militant recruitment. 26/06/2020
Tunisia Several injured after blast near American embassy in Tunis Tunisian media are reporting that a suicide bomber on a motorcycle set off a blast near the U.S. Embassy in Tunis. 06/03/2020
Inspire Middle East A look under the hood of a homegrown Tunisian car brand Tunisian motor company WallysCar was set up by two brothers who had no prior experience in mechanical engineering. 13/12/2019
Tunisia Tunisians pick new president in final round of voting Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui are starkly different candidates who beat 24 rivals including many top politicians in the first round of voting last month, as Tunisians rejected a political establishment that has failed to address chronic economic ills. 13/10/2019
Inspire Middle East How Tunisia’s tech start-ups are changing the entrepreneurial ecosystem With more than one-third of Tunisia’s graduates unemployed, many young nationals are taking matters into their own hands by creating their own tech companies. 11/10/2019
Tunisia Tunisians vote in unpredictable parliamentary elections Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday as the small North African state's economy stagnates and public services decline. 06/10/2019
Tunisia Tunisian election: What you need to know about Karoui and Saied Detained media magnate Nabil Karoui and populist academic Kais Saied, two political outsiders, both said on Sunday that they were through to the second round of Tunisia's presidential election. 16/09/2019
Tunisia Tunisia’s 92-year-old president Essebsi has died: president's office Tunisia’s 92-year-old president Essebsi has died said the president's office 25/07/2019
Inspire Middle East North Africa’s first tattoo school revives an old tradition in Tunisia 19/07/2019
Tunisia Death toll from migrant ship capsize rises to 58, says NGO The Tunisian Red Crescent said on Thursday that 58 bodies have so far been recovered after a ship carrying more than 80 migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia last week. 11/07/2019
Tunisia Tunisia bans wearing of niqab in public institutions after bombings Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab in public institutions for security reasons, according to Reuters, citing an official source. 06/07/2019
Tunisia Boat carrying 70 migrants capsizes off Tunisian coast Boat carrying 70 migrants capsizes off Tunisian coast 04/07/2019
Tunisia Hospitalised Tunisian president's health begins to improve: advisor Essebsi, 92, was taken to a military hospital after suffering what the presidency called a "severe health crisis". Essebsi had been briefly hospitalised last week as well. 27/06/2019
Tunisia Panic in central Tunis as suicide blasts kill police officer A witness described a huge blast followed by dust and panic after a bomber targeted a police car near the French Embassy in the Tunisian capital. 27/06/2019
Tunisia 'They went under one after one': Survivor recounts migrant boat horror A survivor of a migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean has told how he watched fellow passengers slip away and sink to their deaths. 11/05/2019
