Sources: BBC
The Italian Coast Guard retrieves the bodies of six migrants, rescues 10 people, while 40 others remain missing after a dinghy carrying 56 people capsizes off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy, after departing from Sfax, Tunisia. 2025-03-19
Five people are killed when migrant boats sink off the coast of Sfax, Tunisia. 2023-03-23
Flash floods in Cap Bon, Tunisia have killed at least five people. The heavy rains also carried away homes, cars and chunks of road. 2018-09-23
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports a drone attack, “most likely operated by the US-led coalition,” kills Abu al-Hija, a high-ranking Tunisian ISIL commander, near the Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital Raqqa. 2016-03-31
Prime Minister of Tunisia Hamadi Jebali announces that plans for a new government of technocrats has failed. 2013-02-18
A major crisis deepens in Tunisia after the murder of Chokri Belaid. The leading party Ennahda states that it will not accept a new government, even if suggested by its leading member, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. In today's clashes at least one person died. 2013-02-7
Voters in Tunisia go to the polls for the country's first election since the Tunisian Revolution. 2011-10-23
France calls for changes to the Schengen Agreement after Italy allows people from Tunisia and Libya into the passport-free Schengen Area. 2011-04-22
Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, announces plans to visit Egypt and Tunisia this week. 2011-03-10
Tunisia's interim President Fouad Mebazaa and Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi resign from the ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally party amid a row over the make-up of the new government. 2011-01-18