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
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
Tunisia launches its "open-air" COVID-19 vaccination drive for people over the age of 40 in 300 vaccination centers across the country after six million doses of the vaccine arrived from overseas. 2021-08-8
Tunisia reports a record 9,823 new cases and 134 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national total of confirmed cases to 464,914 and the nationwide death toll to 15,735. 2021-07-7
Voters in Tunisia go to the polls to elect a new president. Conservative academic Kais Saied wins more than 70% of the votes. 2019-10-13
Interpol reports that in six weeks it has detected more than a dozen people wanted for terrorism offences crossing the Mediterranean Sea using tourist routes. The joint operation involved Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia. 2019-09-19
Tunisia kills one suspected terrorist and captures another six in an early morning raid in Tunis' El Ouardia neighbourhood. 2013-08-4
Thousands of political prisoners of former President of Tunisia Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali are released in Tunisia. 2011-02-19
French media reports that former President of Tunisia Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia with a stroke. 2011-02-17