La Presse (The Press), Daily Governmental Finance Law 2012 Will Be Adopted Before End of the Year Two New Members Join Constituent Assembly to Replace Marzouki and Jebali Oasis FM Radio Launches Today Railway Transportation: Back to Normal Tunisian Chemical Group: Back to Normal Second Day of UGTT’s Congress: Desperately Seeking Consensus Sahbi Atig: New [...]
La Presse (The Press), Daily Governmental Martyrs’ of Thala and Kasserine: The Accused Explain Tunisair: Flights To Tripoli Resume Association of Tunisian Magistrates: Attachment to Autonomy of Judicial Powers President Elect Moncef Marzouki: “I Am Conscious of the Magnitude of Responsibility” Bouteflika Congratulates Moncef Marzouki Democratic Transition: Tunisia Will Invent Its Own Model Reactions of [...]
Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the moderate Tunisian Islamist party – Ennahda, began a four day visit to Libya, starting yesterday, December 9th. The Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) extended an invitation to Ghannouchi to take part in the First National Congress for Libyan Reconciliation and Reconstruction held in Tripoli. Zoubeir Chahoudi, spokesman of Ennahda Party, stated that Ghannouchi [...]
La Presse (The Press), Daily Governmental State of Emergency Extended Until the End of this Year In Response to Recent Events in Manouba, Civil Society Mobilizes Shoe Leather Industry: 8.9% Increase in Exports An Increase of the Industrial Products Exportation Will the Coalition in the Constituent Assembly Crumble? Le Temps (The Time) Daily Independent Ennahda [...]
La Presse (The Press), Daily Governmental Tunisair Temporarily Suspends Flights to Tripoli Tripoli: Tunisian Aircraft Takes Off After 6 Hours Delay Seven Libyans Arrested in South of Tunisia Court of Appeals of Tozeur to Examine Baghdadi Mahmoudi Case of Illegally Crossing Tunisian Borders Sfax Traffic Jam: When Will There Be a Light Metro? M’dhilla Incidents [...]
According to the Tunisian National TV, Tunisair, Tunisia’s national airline company, decided today, November 27th, 2011, to temporarily suspend its flights to Tripoli, Libya’s capital. However, all flights to the Benghazi airport will continue. The suspension of flights comes as a reaction to the incident that happened yesterday in Miitigua, Tripoli airport, where Ibn Khaldoun [...]
La Presse (The Press), Daily Governmental Civil Society Institutions Attentive to Demands of Youth in Gafsa & Kasserine Tripoli: A Tunisian Aircraft Takes Off with 6 Hours of Delay Syria: Rising Power of the Syrian Free Army Court of First Instance to Extradite Baghdadi Mahmoudi Le Temps (The Times), Daily Independent Court of Appeal Decides [...]
Update: The plane took off at 10pm Tunis Time from Maatigua airport in Tripoli heading to Tunis, Tunisia. According to several sources in Tripoli and in Tunis, a Tunis Air Airbus 320 was prevented from take off by a group of armed people. Plane captain Zied Ghidaoui and the rest of the crew are safe. [...]
The head of the interim Libyan government Abdurrahim el-Keib announced the new government on Tuesday, 22th November. The government will last about 8 months until parliamentary elections are held, which are expected to take place next July. On Thursday, 24th November, the selected ministers were sworn in, pledging loyalty to the ideals and objectives of the February [...]
Abdelhakim Belhadj, head of the Military Council of Tripoli, was arrested yesterday at Tripoli International Airport for holding a fake passport. Belhadj, on his way to Turkey when the Libyan authorities arrested him, was carrying a passport recently issued by the governing National Transitional Council to allow him greater ease of travel as a decision [...]
Abdelfattah Amor, President of the National Commission of Investigating Corruption and Wrongdoings, passed away this afternoon, January 2nd. The Commission was tasked with investigating instances of corruption bribery, embezzlement, and other financial wrongdoings perpetrated by Ben Ali’s regime. Over 5000 documents were carefully scrutinized, and approximately 320 files were submitted to the judiciary for review. [...]
Libyan Border Crossing: 4 Tunisian National Guards Kidnapped, 3 Released
On Saturday, four Tunisian National Guardsmen were kidnapped by an armed group of Libyans one kilometer within Tunisian territory, in the governate of Mednine (south-western Tunisia), around 3:00 p.m. According to Mr. Hichem Meddeb, spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior, three of the men untied themselves and escaped. However, their officer is still being held by [...]
Senator Joe Lieberman: United States Supports New Government in Tunisia
Today Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced the U.S. Government’s support for the change in Tunisia’s Government at the American Embassy in Tunis. Lieberman praised the leadership of the new Tunisian government for acting to provide the country with stability and for moving forward in the process of rewriting the country’s constitution. “Although in my meetings with [...]
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