News - TUN
4 articles tagged TUN, newest first
2026-08-21
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│ Antigovernment protesters take to Tunisia's │
│ streets for second month │
│ feature - Al Jazeera - tilt/tilt [TUN] │
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│ Blackout-driven protests entered a second │
│ month with the new Nafas movement leading │
│ Tunis demonstrations Aug 20; police swept │
│ activists' homes overnight Aug 21 with at │
│ least one arrest. Sustained, organized, met │
│ with targeted repression; consistent with │
│ the July cut, levels held with confidence │
│ up. │
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│ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/21/an │
│ tigovernment-protesters-take-to-tunisias-st │
│ reets-for-second-month │
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2026-07-25
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│ Tunisians mark fifth year of emergency rule │
│ with calls for Saied to go │
│ large - Al Jazeera - tilt/tilt [TUN] │
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│ Thousands demonstrated in central Tunis │
│ July 25 on the fifth anniversary of Saied's │
│ power grab, chanting for the fall of the │
│ regime, merging with nationwide blackout │
│ protests, road blockades and burning tires; │
│ Saied framed the outages as sabotage and │
│ criminal probes were opened against civil │
│ servants on the electricity file. The first │
│ at-scale convergence of service anger and │
│ regime-change demands: drove political │
│ stability near -4 to -5; rule of law held │
│ at -6. │
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│ https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/governme │
│ nt/tunisians-mark-fifth-year-of-emergency-r │
│ ule-with-calls-for-saied-to-go/ar-AA28GSMl │
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2026-07-22
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│ Extreme heat and Tunisia-wide power cuts │
│ fuel anger │
│ feature - AFP - wire/independent [TUN] │
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│ Blackouts of six-plus hours ran from July │
│ 12 as demand hit a record 6 GW July 21 in │
│ 49-50C heat, with ~900 wildfires in three │
│ days and the failure rooted in aging plant, │
│ deferred maintenance and declining domestic │
│ gas; the young-doctors' organisation claims │
│ 150-200 deaths since the cuts began (single │
│ professional-association estimate, │
│ direction only, not scored). Drove Tunisia │
│ infrastructure -2 to -4. │
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│ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-extreme-tunis │
│ ia-wide-power-fuel.html │
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2026-07-08
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│ Sounding the Alarm over Tunisia's Crackdown │
│ large - Human Rights Watch - │
│ investigative/independent [TUN] │
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│ At the UN Human Rights Council session │
│ closing July 8, UN experts and civil │
│ society documented systematic targeting of │
│ civil society, journalists, opposition, │
│ lawyers and migrants under Saied, including │
│ a 25-year sentence for former │
│ truth-commission president Sihem │
│ Bensedrine. Drove Tunisia civil_liberties │
│ -6 to -7. │
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│ https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/08/soundin │
│ g-the-alarm-over-tunisias-crackdown │
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