[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, on Monday afternoon, resumed duties at the Kasbah, after observing a 10 day-quarantine in the wake of his infection with the coronavirus last June 25.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Nouredine Taboubi called on US labour unions to urge the federal government to speed up the dispatch of medical supplies and vaccine doses, in suffi...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Women, Family and Elderly Affairs Imen Zahouani Houimel said consultations are underway with all stakeholders to launch a national dialogue to reduce violence against women in public and private spa...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Committee for the Fight against Natural Disasters in Kasserine decided to impose full lockdown across the governorate from July 5 to 11, as the health situation in the region has worsened because of the COV...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisair said on Monday that all passengers travelling to Morocco from Tunisia must present a negative PCR test certificate less than 48 hours old, before the date of entry into Morocco, following the new healt...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Ennahdha movement called to form a «strong political government in the next stage.»

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Three people died of the coronavirus in Sfax during the last 24 hours, while 66 infection cases were reported from 315 tests.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Four more coronavirus-related deaths were reported in the last 48 hours in the governorate of Medenine where the death toll from the pandemic has reached 678, local director of preventive health Zayd Al-Anz sai...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of National Defence Brahim Bértégi, on Monday, with German ambassador in Tunis Peter Prügel.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 91.8% of IC beds and 79.60% of oxygen-fitted beds in public hospitals were reported as occupied on July 4, according to the latest data released Monday by the Health Ministry.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- In the absence of unoccupied beds in Greater Tunis, the Health Ministry had been compelled on Sunday evening, to transfer patients suffering from COVID-19 to other hospitals in the interior regions of the count...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Flat6Labs, the first regional startup accelerator in the Middle East, launched in Tunisia, announced Monday the organisation of its 7th Demo Day in Tunis in a virtual edition on July 8 at 5:00 p.m., with a grou...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Ten illegal migration attempts were foiled by National Guard units in Bizerte, Sousse, Monastir, Mahdia and Sfax.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia's volleyball team (senior boys) will partake in the XVIII Memorial Hubert Jerzy Wagner friendly tournament, organised on July 9-11, under the aegis of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB).

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Discretionary travel to Canada for optional reasons, including tourism or recreation is not allowed, national carrier Tunisair announced Monday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A health emergency bill will be submitted soon to the House of People's Representatives (French: ARP), Minister in charge of Civil Service and Acting Justice Minister Hasna Ben Slimane said Sunday in Sfax.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The local disaster control committee in Mahdia, on Saturday, decided to decree a targeted lockdown from July 5 to 14.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The civil protection has recorded 132 fires that hit 465 hectares of farmland between June 1 and July 1, 2021, against 118 fires damaging 157 hectares of farmland during the same period last year, said its spok...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia, on Saturday, took delivery of 25,000 COVID-19 rapid tests and 30,000 RT-PCR test kits donated by Germany and South Korea, said Director of Public Facilities at the Health Ministry Naceur Somrani.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Transport and Logistics Moez Chakchouk said he will submit a detailed report to the Prime Minister about the epidemiological situation in Mahdia.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- El Kef logged three more COVID-19 deaths, the local health directorate said in its latest report.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Eight migrants preparing to cross land borders with Algeria were arrested on Friday by a joint patrol of the border intelligence brigade and the land border brigade of the National Guard of Bouchebka, governora...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A targeted lockdown was decreed Saturday in Nabeul by the local committee to fight natural disasters, Governor Mohamed Ridha Mlika told TAP.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Members of the Local Committee to Combat Disasters and Relief Organisation in the governorate of Bizerte called on the government and the Health Ministry to increase the number of medics and paramedics in the r...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Eighty-four irregular migrants of various nationalities whose boat capsized 28 km northeast of Zarzis, had been rescued by a national coast guard unit, spokesman for the National Defence Ministry Mohamed Zekri ...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- COVID-19 claimed the lives of two people in the last 24 hours in the governorate of Sfax, bringing the death toll to 1,233.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Nineteen irregular migrants of various African nationalities whose boat capsized off Louata in the governorate of Sfax, had been rescued by a coast guard unit, the National Defence Ministry announced Saturday.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The governorate of Sousse reported 5 COVID-related deaths and 617 additional infections in the past 24 hours from 1,418 conducted tests.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Health Ministry announced that the vaccination rollout rate with the first dose among those registered on the "Evax" platform stood at 45% on July 1.

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A subsidy contract of over 1.6 million dinars aimed at financing the joint project "Artichoke" value chain in Bizerte, was signed on July 2, between the General Authority for Regional Development (CGDR) and the...