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Tunisia

Tunisia struggles to manage migrant surge

African migrants and the Tunisian groups trying to help them say the country is increasingly unable to provide needed medical and social services. According to Tunisian officials, approximately 61,000 migrants from Africa are in the country…

Western Sahara invite leads to diplomatic dispute

A meeting Friday between Tunisian President Kais Saied and Western Sahara independence advocate Brahim Ghali provoked Morocco to recall its ambassador to Tunis this weekend. Ghali was in Tunis for the Japanese-African investment conference…

Volunteers join environment ministry clean-up campaign

Tunisian environment officials are organizing neighborhood groups across the country to join a nationwide clean-up campaign that is heralded as a sign of a new era of civic participation. Abd al-Salam Hamdi, a senior manager at the Trans…