Bodies of 16 migrants recovered off Tunisia’s eastern coast | Migration News

Bodies of 16 migrants recovered off Tunisia’s eastern coast | Migration News

Samples have been taken to identify the bodies of the migrants and refugees ‘due to the extent of decomposition’. The bodies of 16 migrants and refugees have been recovered by Tunisia’s coastguard off the country’s eastern coast, the National Guard says, the latest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean. “The…

Saied’s low turnout win in Tunisia election sparks repression concerns | Elections News

Saied’s low turnout win in Tunisia election sparks repression concerns | Elections News

Tunisians are reckoning with what preliminary results suggest will be a landslide victory for incumbent Kais Saied in the presidential election despite a markedly low turnout. In a contest marked by judicial controversy, widespread accusations of rigging and one of the three-man field languishing in prison, few believed that Saied…

Kais Saied set to win Tunisia presidential election: Exit poll | Elections News

Kais Saied set to win Tunisia presidential election: Exit poll | Elections News

The incumbent in the lead with 89.2 percent of votes with voter turnout in Sunday’s election at 28 percent. Tunisian President Kais Saied is on course to win the presidential election with 89.2 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll aired on state TV, solidifying Saied’s rule after…

Video: Tunisia votes in election slammed as unfair by the opposition | Elections

Video: Tunisia votes in election slammed as unfair by the opposition | Elections

NewsFeed Tunisians are voting in an election that few doubt will return President Kais Saied to power for a second term. The vote, widely regarded by observers as not fair, is the first since Saied assumed executive authority in a 2021 constitutional coup. Published On 6 Oct 20246 Oct 2024…

What’s at stake in Tunisia’s presidential election on Sunday? | Elections News

What’s at stake in Tunisia’s presidential election on Sunday? | Elections News

Sunday’s election in Tunisia will mark the first since President Kais Saied was elected to power as an independent with no prior political experience in 2019 and later extended his rule in a “self-coup” in July 2021. He suspended parliament, dismissed the prime minister, Hichem Mechichi, and assumed executive authority….

Tunisia presidential election: Who is running and what is at stake? | Elections News

Tunisia presidential election: Who is running and what is at stake? | Elections News

On October 6, Tunisians will head to the polls for the first round of a presidential election that opposition critics say is rigged in favour of President Kais Saied and could sound the death knell for Tunisia’s democracy. Just two candidates have been approved to run against the incumbent in…

Three children among 12 dead as boat capsizes off Tunisian coast | Migration News

Three children among 12 dead as boat capsizes off Tunisian coast | Migration News

At least 10 people still missing and 29 rescued in latest boat disaster in the Mediterranean. At least 12 people have been found dead and 10 are still missing after a boat heading to Europe capsized off the coast of Tunisia’s southeastern island of Djerba, according to officials. Judicial official…

Tunisian presidential candidate Zammel sentenced to six months in prison | News

Tunisian presidential candidate Zammel sentenced to six months in prison | News

Ayachi Zammel sentenced on charges of falsifying documents days before Tunisia’s presidential election. Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel has been sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying documents, the second prison sentence against him in a week, days before the country’s presidential election. Tunisia’s TAP news agency reported on…

Refugee chronicles: The long and lonely road from Sudan to northern France | Refugees

Refugee chronicles: The long and lonely road from Sudan to northern France | Refugees

Tea, towels and survival blankets On that same cold, grey morning when I met Hashim and Yusuf, 12 wet, freezing Vietnamese people were walking down a coastal road south of Calais. Their boat had capsized. On their way back from this misadventure, they met a team from the French association…