Sources: BBC
Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied wins a second term with 90.7% of the vote in the presidential election. The Independent High Authority for Elections reports a voter turnout of 28.8%, the lowest since the 2011 Tunisian revolution. 2024-10-7
Tunisia lifts its nightly curfew due to a decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases, but extends the ban on gatherings for one week. 2022-02-10
Tunisia begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Sputnik V vaccine. Health workers, soldiers, people over age 65, and people with underlying conditions are the first to receive the vaccine. 2021-03-13
Italian authorities say a major terror alert in Rome last week was for an innocent man whose fiancé had made false, anonymous accusations to the Italian embassy in Tunisia. 2018-04-3
A Tunisian court sentences two French and one German members of the FEMEN movement to four months in jail for protesting topless. 2013-06-12
The United States has ordered all non-essential staff to evacuate its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia and urges its citizens to avoid travelling to those countries. 2012-09-16
Tunisia extradites former Libyan Prime Minister Al Baghdadi Ali Al Mahmoudi. 2012-06-24
Mortar rounds fired from Libya land near the Tunisian border town of Dehiba. 2011-05-5
The Government of Italy declares a humanitarian emergency after thousands of Tunisian immigrants land on the small island of Lampedusa. 2011-02-12
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