Sources: BBC
A court in Tunisia sentences opposition leader Abir Moussi to two years in prison for insulting the election commission. The court also sentences four potential presidential candidates, including activist Nizar Chaari, to eight months in prison and bans them from running for office on charges of vote buying. 2024-08-6
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 migrant boat capsizes off the coast of Tunisia, killing at least 11 people, who were all women and children, according to the Tunisian Navy. Around 20 others are still missing. 2020-10-11
Protests against poor living conditions break out in the central town of Jilma, Tunisia after a man set himself on fire for the same reason on Friday. Police use tear gas to disperse the protestors. 2019-11-30
The Tunisian government announces a wave of social and economic reforms after violent anti-austerity protests that have resulted in at least one death and the arrest of more than eight hundred people. 2018-01-14
A train and a bus collide in Tunis, Tunisia, killing 5 and injuring around 52. 2016-12-28
Tunisian security forces have killed 10 people (claimed by authorities to be Islamist militants) near the border with Algeria in a three-day operation against gunmen who attacked police patrols in the remote northern region. 2013-10-19
Three Tunisian security officers are killed in a clash with gunmen in the north of the country. 2011-05-18
Tunisian officials negotiate the formation of a supervisory council to oversee the country's interim government, in an effort to appease protesters angry at the continued presence in the cabinet of holdovers linked to deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’sregime. 2011-01-24
A protestor dies of his injuries in Tunisia as protests continue across the country over unemployment and poor living conditions. 2010-12-31