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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.
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.
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.
A peer-reviewed study of 22 years of data finds that Kébili's deep aquifers are being drawn at 229 percent of renewable supply, even as Tunisia's date crop breaks records and exports pass 700 million dinars.
Exports grew 9.9 percent in the first seven months of 2026. Imports grew 13.7 percent. The energy bill alone accounts for 7.95 billion dinars of the gap.
Inspectors have uncovered tens of thousands of litres of bottled water withheld from the market in Sousse and Nabeul, as the consumer association accuses middlemen of profiting from a shortage that began with July's power cuts.
A US State Department funding notice published this week sets out a plan to take American investors into 30 to 40 percent of PhosCo Ltd, the company developing the Gasaat phosphate deposit — and to keep 'non-market state-owned enterprises' out.
Central Bank data show Tunisia's two largest sources of hard currency up 458 million dinars on last year — while import cover dropped ten days, absorbed by a €700 million Eurobond repayment.
The INS published July's consumer price index on Wednesday. The headline rate keeps easing, but the items households buy most often are still rising at two to three times that pace.
The European Commission confirms that shipments to Italy were refused because Tunisia exceeded its Mediterranean catch quota. The agriculture ministry says the quota rests on incomplete data — and has asked for it to be rewritten.
Decree 2026-148 sets the rules for Tunisia's zero-interest 'honour loans': ceilings from 5,000 to 25,000 dinars, decisions in ten days, no guarantees. Analysts say the text collides with the law it implements and organises no way to recover a bad loan.
The BCT board kept policy unchanged on Wednesday, citing stubborn core inflation. Its own figures show a record 8.5 billion dinar energy import bill — without which Tunisia's current account would be in surplus.
The Tunindex fell 3.47 percent on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, halting trading under Article 3.7. Brokers call it a healthy correction; the episode exposed how thin the market's institutional base is.
Exports grew a solid 9 percent in the first half — and it still wasn't enough. Tourism and diaspora money are holding the external accounts together.
Official figures show consumer prices cooling in June, driven by slower food price growth, even as the government's standoff with the IMF drags on.