20110312
xinhua

TUNIS, March 12 (Xinhua) -- A court in Tunis has requested the arrest of three former officials working for ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, reported the Tunisian official press agency, TAP on Saturday.

20110305
reuters

TUNIS, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The UN is willing to help Tunisia organize the elections of the country's first Constituent Assembly due on July 24, UN Secretary General's special envoy Jamel Amor said Saturday, official TAP news agency reported.

20110304
xinhua

TUNIS, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's new caretaker prime minister Beji Caid Essebsi said he would name a new government within two days, whose priority would be to restore order, and boost the country's battered economy.

20110304
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's interim prime minister said on Friday he would appoint a new government in two days, the third caretaker administration since the overthrow of veteran leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January.

20110304
Xinhua
TUNIS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian interim President Fouad Mebazaa said Thursday an election is expected on July 24 to form a constitutional council.

20110301
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Three Tunisian ministers resigned on Tuesday, leaving the caretaker government which took over power after the president was overthrown teetering on the brink of collapse.

20110227
RFI

Tunisia's Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi resigned on Sunday, as security forces clashed with protesters demanding changes to the country's interim government.

20110228
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Three people were killed in clashes between Tunisian security forces and youths rioting in central Tunis on Saturday, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters.

20110226
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian soldiers fired shots into the air on Friday in an attempt to disperse tens of thousands of protesters in central Tunis demanding changes to the interim government, some burning tyres and throwing rocks.

201102218
xinhua

TUNIS, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi said a general amnesty will be officially proclaimed by the end of this week, the official press agency TAP reported Friday.

20110218
reuetrs

TUNIS (Reuters) - Near an olive grove on the outskirts of Tunisia's seaside capital, men stack walls of bricks on muddy earth and fasten roofs of tin and plastic against the wind-blown rain.

20110218
Xinhua
TUNIS, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was in a serious condition in a Jeddah hospital in Saudi Arabia, local reports said Thursday.

20100214
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia has deployed soldiers to stop a tide of illegal immigrants trying to reach Italy, a military source said on Monday, after Rome said a revolution in the north African country had set off a "biblical exodus."

20110213
xinhua

TUNIS, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ounaies has tendered his resignation, the official news agency TAP said on Sunday.

20110208
xinhua

TUNIS (Reuters) - Gunshots were fired in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Tuesday, people in the area said, in a new blow to faltering efforts to restore security after the overthrow of the autocratic president.

20110207
xinhua

TUNIS, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's Interior Minister Farhat Rajhi on Sunday suspended the country's former ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party.

20110205
xinhua

TUNIS, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- The European Union decided on Friday to freeze the assets of 46 relatives of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as well as those of his wife, Leila Trabelsi, the official press agency TAP reported on Friday.

20110205
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Two people being held in a police station in a Tunisian provincial town died after the building caught fire, prompting a protest by local people, local witnesses and official media reported.

20110205
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia will next week lift a state of emergency that was imposed last month by ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali at the height of a popular revolt, Tourism Minister Mehdi Houass said on Friday.

20110204
aljazeera
Interim government continues efforts to dismantle Ben Ali's legacy while struggling to restore order and stability.