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Q&A: The Uprising of Women in the Arab World

Farah Samti | 31 January 2013 | 6 Comments

The Uprising Of Women in the Arab World is a social media phenomenon that started as a Facebook page and grew into a blog, and additional profiles on other social networks such as Twitter. On their Facebook page, which has over 90,000 fans so far, the young group of cyber-activists who run the initiative describe themselves [...]

Tunisia Offers to Host Two New African Institutions

Zied Mhirsi | 28 January 2013 | 0 Comments

ADDIS ABABA – During the recent African Union Summit, Tunisia offered to host two organizations: the African Statistics Institute and the Pan-African Intellectual Property Organization. The establishment of an African Statistics Institute was approved by heads of state at the summit. This project aims to standardize African statistical tools and measurements in order to facilitate economic [...]

Post-Revolutionary Tunisia Open to Monitoring from African Peers

Zied Mhirsi | 28 January 2013 | 0 Comments

ADDIS ABABA – President Moncef Marzouki signed several international agreements during the African Union Summit Saturday in Addis Ababa, including one for an African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) that was previously shunned by Tunisia’s former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Launched in 2003 by the African Union (AU), the APRM is a mutually agreed upon [...]

Marzouki to Call for International Constitutional Court at African Union

Zied Mhirsi | 25 January 2013 | 3 Comments

ADDIS ABABA - Tunisian President Marzouki is expected to seek the support for an international constitutional court at the 20th African Union (AU) Summit. The president will head later today, January 25, to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, accompanied by a large delegation, including Chief of Staff Imad Daimi and other high-profile advisors. Marzouki will reiterate the [...]

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to Visit Tunisia

Farah Samti | 22 January 2013 | 0 Comments

In his first visit to North Africa and the Middle East, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is to arrive in Tunisia tomorrow, January 23, to discuss ways to improve the institution’s role in the transitional period that Tunisia has been living since the popular uprising of 2011. According to a press release issued by the World [...]

Tunisian Hostage Rescued by Algerian Army Returns Home

Farah Samti | 21 January 2013 | 2 Comments

Rachid Neili, a Tunisian who was among those taken hostage by an armed group in the south of Algeria last week, was released and returned safely to his hometown in the south of Tunisia. In an interview broadcast on national television channel Al Wataniya, Neili stated that he was released on Friday, January 18, after [...]

Is Algeria to Blame for Escalating Mali Conflict?

Amira Masrour | 18 January 2013 | 4 Comments

French intervention was the “last resort” of the beleaguered Malian government, says Tunisia’s former minister of foreign affairs, Ahmed Ounaies. And it seems that Tunisia’s current government would have preferred if France were not involved in the fight against rebel insurgents, who were threatening to take over Mali. “We believe that the problems arising in [...]

French Embassy Asks Citizens to Stay Vigilant Day After Attack in Algeria

Amira Masrour | 17 January 2013 | 2 Comments

The French Embassy in Tunis called on French expatriates yesterday, January 17, to take increased safety precautions immediately following the mass kidnapping of foreigners in an attack on a gas field in neighboring Algeria. “In the context of French military intervention in Mali, French citizens are asked to be especially vigilant. It is reminded that [...]

Son-in-Law of Toppled President Flees Seychelles

Amira Masrour | 17 December 2012 | 0 Comments

Authorities in the island country of Seychelles announced on Saturday, December 15, that Sakher El Materi, son-in-law of ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, left the island following an interrogation, reported French radio Europe 1. Based on a statement by Seychelles’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, El Materi was briefly questioned at the Seychelles International Airport upon [...]

U.S. Congressman Calls for Witholding Aid to Tunisia

Noah Rayman | 12 December 2012 | 10 Comments

U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf called yesterday for the U.S. to withhold aid to Tunisia until local authorities provide American investigators access to a suspect held in association with the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya three months ago. Wolf, a member of the House State and Foreign Operations subcommittee who is in his 16th [...]

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