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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

Tunisia's flag carrier Tunisair announces that it has resumed services to Libya in light of the UN-sponsored peace agreement, becoming the first foreign airline to connect to the country since the outbreak of the Second Libyan Civil War seven years ago. Yesterday, the airline flew its first flights to Benghazi and Tripoli, and it has scheduled five flights to both cities each week.
2021-05-18

Four Tunisian soldiers are killed by a land mine during a counter-terrorism operation in Mount Mghila, central Tunisia.
2021-02-3

Souad Abderrahim becomes the first woman to be elected as Mayor of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
2018-07-3

Eleven people are killed when a Libyan Air Force plane crashes from a suspected engine fire in Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia.
2014-02-21

A general strike is called in Tunisia following the assassination of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi on July 25.
2013-07-26

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

Prime Minister of Tunisia Hamadi Jebali announces that plans for a new government of technocrats has failed.
2013-02-18

Approximately 250 people fleeing from the Libyan Civil War to Europe may have died as their ship sinks off the coast of Tunisia.
2011-06-2

Sources from the Tunisian defence ministry claim that Gaddafi's wife and daughter have fled there.
2011-05-18