All the News of Tunisia
The CNCI has pushed the deadline for the country's Best International Feature entry to 21 August, after the first call closed on 14 August. Tunisian cinema has three selections at Venice and one at Locarno this season.
Economy
The UGTT mining federation has notified a general strike at every Gafsa Phosphate Company site from 1 to 3 September over unimplemented agreements and unpaid raises.
Politics
President Saied visited the new body's headquarters on Monday as it opened for business. Its powers are advisory, its members are presidentially appointed, and the reform it is meant to steer has been promised since 2015.
Sports
The Franco-Moroccan winger arrives from FK Baku on a three-year deal, completing an attacking rebuild that has been the most expensive in the Tunisian window.
Technology
The central bank's payments bulletin shows electronic usage growing fast from a very small base, while cheques keep retreating and the merchant network barely expands.
Sports
The Tunisian federation says the CAVB has moved the men's continental championship out of Kinshasa. No venues, no dates, and an Ebola outbreak behind the decision.
Culture
A procession brought from Sicily in the early twentieth century, abandoned in the 1960s and revived a few years ago, went out on 15 August. Its meaning has outlived the community that started it.
Economy
The statistics institute's first estimate puts first-half growth at 2.4 percent. Mining fell 9.6 percent and imports outran exports, leaving trade a drag of 1.33 points.
Politics
Presidential Decree 206 of 2026 renews the closed military zone along the Libyan and Algerian borders from 29 August, continuing a measure first taken in 2013.
Sports
The Brazilian's move from Al-Ittihad Tripoli was settled in Libya with cash and two players. Youcef Belaïli's status, by contrast, is still unresolved.
Technology
A ministerial council at the Kasbah heard the 2026-2030 plan and put Tunisia 29th worldwide for AI research output. The gap between publishing papers and governing the technology is the strategy's real test.
Culture
The curtain came down on Thursday on thirty-two performances, most of them sold out, with a closing concert that ran from Saliha to Oum Kalthoum and back to the singer's own repertoire.
Economy
INS figures for the fourth quarter of 2025 show built property up 5.6 percent year on year, led by a 6.9 percent jump in the Sahel, even as transaction volumes contracted across land, houses and apartments.