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Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi fires Minister for Public Health Faouzi Mehdi and appoints Mohamed Trabelsi as caretaker Minister for Public Health amid a collapse of the nation's healthcare system due to an increase in COVID-19 cases.
2021-07-20

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi tests positive for COVID-19.
2021-06-25

Tunisia reports 1,308 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the health ministry says. This is a new record high since the beginning of the pandemic, prompting the government to impose a nightly curfew in Sousse and Monastir governorates.
2020-10-2

Tuinisia's presidential election appears headed for a runoff between incumbent interim President Moncef Marzouki and former Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi.
2014-11-23

Tunisian politicians select Mehdi Jomaa as the acting Prime Minister of Tunisia until new elections are called.
2013-12-14

Prime Minister of Tunisia Hamadi Jebali resigns after failing to reach an agreement on forming a new technocratic government.
2013-02-19

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

A major crisis deepens in Tunisia after the murder of Chokri Belaid. The leading party Ennahda states that it will not accept a new government, even if suggested by its leading member, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. In today's clashes at least one person died.
2013-02-7

Chokri Belaid, the general secretary of the Patriotic Democratic Party, is shot dead outside his house in Tunis, leading to reported clashes between the police and hundreds of protesters. The Prime Minister of Tunisia Hamadi Jebali claims that a new government will be formed within one day.
2013-02-6

Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announces his resignation in a speech on state TV.
2011-02-27