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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.
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.
A restricted ministerial council chaired by Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri on Friday announced extra social aid for the 2026-2027 school year, alongside pledges on class sizes, transport, textbooks and drinking water in schools.
Two days after Kaïs Saïed's unannounced visit to Gabès, a Carthage Palace statement pledges the dismantling of industrial units, but identifies neither the installations nor a timetable.
The 85-year-old Ennahdha leader lifted his protest on Tuesday at the request of his medical team. His party says the underlying grievance — restricted access to lawyers and family — has not been addressed.
Answering an MP's written question, the Agriculture Ministry says the revised Water Code is ready for the Council of Ministers 'in the shortest possible time' — but gives no date, in a summer of rationing and cuts.
A restricted cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sarra Zaâfrani Zenzri approved the broad orientations of next year's finance bill, framed around economic sovereignty and a break with earlier management of public resources.
Aswat Nissa launches the country's first database of femicides on 12 August, alongside its third annual report. Its own tally has risen from six cases in 2018 to thirty in 2025.
The president received the commission's new chairman at Carthage on Wednesday and warned against procedural delay. The mechanism has been running since 2022 without a consolidated public tally of what it has recovered.
Rolling blackouts since 12 July have emptied shop shelves, filled hospital wards and sent protesters onto the streets. The president has ordered the cuts to stop; nobody has explained how.
The SNJT told its general assembly on Friday that January 2025 to July 2026 brought a deterioration in the climate of freedoms, alongside closures, layoffs and unpaid wages across Tunisian newsrooms.
Deputies approved an EBRD guarantee for CPG by 58 votes to 13 with nine abstentions, then moved straight on to two Islamic trade-finance guarantees for the GCT. Four bills, all flagged urgent.
Brahim Bouderbala said any member who photographs or films a plenary session will be referred to the public prosecutor. Sixteen deputies say the ruling has no legal basis.
The 85-year-old opposition leader was hospitalized after collapsing in prison on July 17. His defense team says every request to see him has been refused.
Protesters filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue to mark five years since the president suspended parliament, in one of the largest opposition rallies in months.