Sources: BBC
Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast. 2023-03-9
Eleven people are killed and 12 others are missing after a boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia. 2022-09-8
Tunisian citizens head to the polls to vote in a constitutional referendum, which was proposed by President Kais Saied as a solution to the country's ongoing political crisis. 2022-07-25
Tunisian President Kais Saied, in a televised speech, announces the dismissal of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and the suspension of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, and also assumes executive authority. The opposition calls the actions a coup d'état. 2021-07-25
An overloaded ship carrying migrants capsizes and sinks off the island of Lampedusa, Italy, in rough conditions in the Mediterranean Sea. Search and rescue is underway; of at least 50 on board, 22 survivors have been saved and 13 bodies found. The deceased and missing both include pregnant women. The International Organization for Migration states the boat had departed from Tunisia. 2019-10-7
North Macedonia establishes diplomatic relations with Armenia, Monaco, San Marino and Tunisia at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. 2019-09-27
Tunisia's Ministry of Defence says that a pilot is arrested after a damaged Libyan warplane, reported to be a L-39 Albatros, makes an emergency landing on a road near the southern town of Beni Khadash. 2019-07-22
At least 150 people drown when an overcrowded boat carrying about 850 refugees fleeing Libya capsized off the Tunisian coast; scores more are still missing as a search for survivors by Tunisian authorities continues. 2011-06-3
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