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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

The death toll from a boat that sank off the coast of Tunisia increases to 33 after eight more bodies are found.
2023-04-14

Tunisia receives its first major shipment of 30,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine.
2021-03-9

Tunisia announces new measures that include a nighttime curfew, which will remain in effect until November 15. In addition, movement between provinces without essential reasons will be prohibited, schools will be suspended until November 8 and demonstrations, access to places of worship and gatherings of more than four people in public will also be prohibited.
2020-10-29

A fire in a building housing the Portuguese, Tunisian, Argentinian and Belgian embassies in Stockholm, Sweden injures 14 people. A man is arrested on suspicion of arson.
2018-04-4

Amid protests against rising prices and tax increases, a protestor is killed and five others are injured in clashes with security forces in the Tunisian town of Tebourba.
2018-01-8

Tunisia's Transport Ministry suspends Emirates Airlines flights to Tunis.
2017-12-24

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi declares a state of emergency.
2015-07-4

Mohamed Brahmi, the leader of the Tunisian People's Movement, is fatally shot outside his house in Tunis, sparking clashes between police and protesters.
2013-07-25

More than 400 people fleeing Libya and Tunisia arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa in two boats, the latest in a stream of refugees fleeing the ongoing conflicts in North Africa.
2011-05-14