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Tunisia

Tunisia

Population: 12.26m
GDP: $46.69bn
Debt: 89.2% of GDP (2023 forecast)

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Saïed chooses isolation after returning EU cash

The President has turned down €60m of funding from Europe and is no closer to agreement on a $1.9bn IMF programme

It is increasingly hard to see where Tunisia will source financial support in the coming months after President Kaïs Saïed rejected funding from the European Union. Last ...

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Heart of the migration storm

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni continues to exert diplomatic pressure on Tunisia and Libya as the Italian island of Lampedusa continues to receive unprecedented numbers of m...


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African Union court demands legal access for political detainees

President Saïed's regime has 15 days to respond to the ruling on politicians jailed in crackdown on opposition

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has ordered the Tunisian government to allow jailed opposition politicians and activists access to their lawyers, giving President Ka...

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Saïed's new crank

President Kais Saïed's decision to replace Najla Bouden, hailed two years earlier ago as the Arab World's first female prime minister, with 66-year-old Ahmed Hachani, a politi...


Saïed wins €1 billion windfall in EU migration deal 

EU officials signed a €1bn pact with Tunis, establishing a new model for outsourcing migration control to the region's authoritarian regimes

The European Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tunis on 16 July, promising around €1 billion to the beleaguered economy while handing a de facto political lifeli...


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