Sources: AP via MSNBC
At least nine people are found dead, six others are missing, and 27 people are rescued when a boat carrying African migrants sinks off the coast of Chebba, Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia. 2024-12-12
Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur becomes both the first African and first Arab player to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament after defeating Tatjana Maria in the semifinals of the 2022 Wimbledon women's singles. 2022-07-7
The Tunisian Health Ministry authorizes the use of the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine as a booster dose. 2021-12-29
Tunisia's army and security forces kill another five suspected terrorists in an operation near the Libyan border. 2016-03-8
Tunisia announces plans to close down 80 "propagandist" mosques following yesterday's attacks in which 39 people died. 2015-06-27
Gunmen attack Tunisia's Bardo National Museum, adjacent to the parliament building, killing 23 people, including 18 foreign tourists. 2015-03-18
Prime Minister of Tunisia Hamadi Jebali says he will resign if a new "technocratic" government cannot be formed in a few days. Amid protests one policeman dies and tens of protesters are injured. 2013-02-10
Thousands of political prisoners of former President of Tunisia Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali are released in Tunisia. 2011-02-19
Police in Tunisia kill at least two people during a protest in the northwestern town of El Kef demanding the resignation of a police chief - crowds retaliate by burning the police station. 2011-02-6
Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, who criticised the country's leader and who is, according to Amnesty International, a "prisoner of conscience", loses his appeal against a six-month prison sentence for assault. 2010-01-30