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Confrontation between Tunisia’s General Union, President Saied escalates

While the confrontation was inevitable, the union’s power has been weakened, analysts say.

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Tunisian judge orders detention of prominent lawyer Ahmed Souab

Souab is a fierce critic of President Kais Saied and was arrested for comments about the judiciary acting under duress.

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Tunisia mass trial highlights opposition crackdown, weakening of judiciary

Trial of more than 40 people charged with plotting against the state, including prominent politicians, resumes Friday.

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Tunisia presidential election: Who is running and what is at stake?

Just two candidates, one recently jailed, have been approved to challenge incumbent Kais Saied in the October 6 poll.

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Tunisia's financial crisis leaves the sick struggling to find medicine

Sick Tunisians face a frantic struggle to find some medicines because the cash-strapped state has reduced imports, leaving doctors unable to control debilitating health problems and patients turning to informal markets for their medication.

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As drought withers Tunisian fields, state feels financial pinch

As rains failed, Tunisian farmers watched their crops wither this spring, harvesting early to salvage some as animal feed and piling costs on a state struggling to afford wheat imports with bakeries running out of bread.

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Why Tunisia's president is cracking down on political opponents, singling out black Africans and undocumented migrants

Tunisia's revolution was the spark that ignited the Arab Spring. But 10 years on, its economy is failing and observers say an increasingly authoritarian government is using black Africans as scapegoats, inciting a wave of racially motivated violence and rhetoric.

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African migrants stuck in Tunisia say racism persists after crackdown

Weeks after a violent crackdown on migrants in Tunisia that triggered a perilous rush to leave by smuggler boats for Italy, many African nationals are still homeless and jobless and some say they still face racist attacks.

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Tunisian president's supporters rally against 'traitors'

Several hundred supporters of President Kais Saied rallied in Tunis on Monday to show their support for him after a crackdown on opponents accused of treason and corruption, and to reject what they call foreign interference.

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Sub-Saharan Africans recount Tunisia ‘hell’ amid crackdown

Racial tensions are spinning out of control as many sub-Saharan Africans prepare to leave the country.

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Tunisia unions protest against economic woes, official’s arrest

Thousands protest against president’s policies, accusing him of trying to stifle basic freedoms including union rights.

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Powerful Tunisian trade union defies president with mass protests

Thousands of members of Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union took to the streets of eight cities on Saturday to protest against President Kais Saied's policies, accusing him of trying to stifle basic freedoms including union rights.

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Tunisians struggle with prices and shortages as economy worsens

Tunisian street cleaner Lassad Mejri says life has grown so tough for his family because of the country's dire economy that they prepare just one meal a day, but as government finances falter, there may be worse to come.

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Tunisian activists decry intimidation as vote looms

Tunisian activist Chaimaa Issa is due to face a military court on Friday on charges of insulting a president whom she accuses of trashing the democracy built from a 2011 revolution in which she took full part.

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'Dangerous' Tunisian droughts threaten food security

Three years of drought have dried up Tunisian reservoirs, threatening harvests that are critical to the North African country's battered economy and pushing the government to raise tap water prices for homes and businesses.

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Tunisia's milk shortage leaves farmers poor and the public angry

Tunisian dairy farmer Maher Gizmir has sold nearly half his cows this year and reduced his daily output by 85%, adding to a shortage of milk around the country as a cash-strapped government wrestles with inflation.

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Mediterranean marine heatwaves threaten coastal livelihoods

(This Nov. 13 story has been corrected to show sea is overall 1.2C warmer than 30 years ago, not 0.4C, in 18th paragraph)

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Long petrol queues in Tunisia stir anger after promise of fuel deliveries

Frustrated motorists queued in long lines outside Tunisian petrol stations on Tuesday even after the energy minister had said a shortage would end on Monday with a new delivery of fuel.

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Tunisian police question Islamist leader

Tunisia's Islamist opposition leader and speaker of the dissolved parliament Rached Ghannouchi appeared at a Tunis police station on Monday to answer questions over what his party has said are accusations relating to terrorism.

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Guests call out burkini ban at Tunisian hotels as discriminatory

On the second day of her stay at the Marriott Hotel in Sousse, Jannette Mensi waded into the swimming pool only to be told by hotel staff that she would have to get out due to her choice of swimwear -- a burkini.

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Empty shelves and rising prices test Tunisians' patience

Food shortages are worsening in Tunisia with empty shelves in supermarkets and bakeries, adding to popular discontent at high prices and risking unrest as the government tries to stave off a crisis in public finances.

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Factbox-What's in Tunisia's new constitution?

Tunisians will vote on Monday on a proposed new constitution significantly enhancing President Kais Saied's powers, hardening critics' fears he will entrench one-man rule and undo democratic gains from the 2011 revolution.

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Tunisia's Islamist leader Ghannouchi stays free after hearing

A Tunisian judge let Islamist party leader Rached Ghannouchi return home on Tuesday after a long investigative hearing instead of keeping him in detention, Ghannouchi's lawyer and an official from his Ennahda party said.

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Tunisians protest against referendum for controversial new constitution

Tunisian police blocked hundreds of demonstrators from reaching electoral commission offices on Thursday as protesters took to the streets against a referendum on a new constitution that would expand the president's executive powers.

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Analysis-Tunisia's Saied poised for more power but economy crumbles

President Kais Saied looks on course to tighten his grip on Tunisia through a constitutional referendum in July, but it could prove to be a poisoned chalice as the economy sinks deeper into crisis and opposition to his rule widens.

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