Sources: AP via MSNBC
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
At least 17 migrants are killed after four boats sink off the coast of Sfax, Tunisia. 2022-04-23
Police in Tunisia arrest a lawmaker and a TV presenter for calling president Kais Saied a traitor over his seizure of power in July. The arrests were ordered by the military judiciary for "conspiring against state security and insulting the army". 2021-10-3
Libya and Tunisia reopen their borders with stringent health protocol requiring travellers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and PCR tested negative, two months after the closure on July 8 due to an explosion of COVID-19 cases in the latter country. 2021-09-17
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
More than 200 people are wounded in a second day of clashes between Tunisian security forces and thousands of protesters in Siliana, Tunisia. 2012-11-28
Mortar rounds fired from Libya land near the Tunisian border town of Dehiba. 2011-05-5
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
Key ministers from the heavily criticised ousted government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are replaced but interim Tunisian prime minister Mohammed Ghannouchi refuses to back down in the face of public anger. 2011-01-28
A Tunisian protester who set himself alight in unrest that sparked further protests across the country dies of his injuries. 2011-01-5